Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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H. H. HELTER Superintendent of MANSFIELD CITY SCHOOLS i Page Nineteen

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D. F. SHAFER BOARD OF EDUCATION GEORGE HOFFMAN GEORGE A. DAVIS PRESIDENT WALTER F. FUCHS DR. J. H. SPENCE Pagt Eightten

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The Marvhigan 1.1 LLUIU mnnrn if JESSE BEER Principal of Mansfield Senior High School Mr. Beer was born and raised on a farm near Mansfield. His educational advantages during his youth were anything but rosy. By working his way and through the benevolence of brothers he received an education. After several years of preparatory work he taught the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in the East Mansfield school. He liked teaching very much but his ambition was to study law. After teaching two years. Mr. Beer completed his preparatory course. He then entered the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with honors. During his last two years at this university he was an assistant teacher, directing laboratory work for analytical chemistry. Upon his graduation from the university. Mr. Beer took over the position of head of the Science Department in Ohio Northern University. He attended summer school during this period at the University of Chicago. At this time Mr. Beer taught in the Mansfield schools for several years. For the past ten years he has taught in Cleveland. There he made a rule that he must know or learn to know both sides of any proposition. And not knowing the problems of administration. Mr. Beer enrolled in the Graduate School of Western Reserve University for a master degree in Education. Mr. Beer says that education teaches one to give intellectual attention to people and things about him. Although Mr. Beer aspired to be a lawyer he is now and has been a school teacher. This is chiefly due to three men. every one of whom advised him to teach. Upon asking them why they advised him toward this end he was informed that he had the main essential of school teaching—the ability to impart to others any information he had received. So following the advice of his superiors, he changed his ambitions from law to teaching and has never regretted it. He contrasted the thought of standing before a jury and a group of young people eager to learn. The more he thought about it. the more the eager young faces lured him away from the jury box to the class room. “Having been born and brought up in this community and being a property owner in this vicinity. said Mr. Beer. I feel that I am filling the finest position I have ever had. I owe it to my friends. Mr. Beer has. during the past year, directed our school, and lived among us as a true friend carrying out the same purpose which he has believed and lived through life—to assume and carry out. to the best of his ability, his share in the betterment of the universe, trying always to remember the other fellow's viewpoint. Through his attitude he has made all students not only love him for his personality, but to respect him for his character. m Page Tuu'entg