Meriden High School - Annual Yearbook (Meriden, CT)

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FRANCIS L. BACON, Princfpal

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DR. DAVID GIBBS The public schools of Meriden are superintendcd by Dr. David Gibbs. Dr. Gibbs has held this high position since August of the year IQI 1. Kingswood, New Jersey, was his birth- place, and the city where he secured his earliest education. lle was graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School in 1894. The following hve years of his life were spent in scientific and post-graduate work at Harvard. Ile was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in IQO6 by Clark University. Concerning his actual experience with school work, there is much. In the interval between the time he left llarvard until he came to hleriden he had been head of both district and graininar schools, had been superintendent of schools in lhl1lSS2lCllllSCtlS and New York, had been district superintendent in the Philippines, and had been the head ol' the New XVOTLI State Normal School. From this leadership at Oswego, New York, he came to us.

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FRANCIS LEONARD BACON Frfrncrs Bwcon c'1me to us from out of the VVtst Ile wfrs born 'rt IXII1gI11'l1'l, Ivrnsqs After' '1 preparatory educfrtron he entered Southvsestun College, where he m rjored rn pohtrc rl scrence and educfrtron, rnd wls grrdufrted rn 1912 wrth the A B degree After thrs, he secured some posrtrons throughout the West He then took 1 course rt Colurnbrr Urrrversrtv 'rnd recerved the degree of A M In IQI5 Mr B rcon w rs enguged -rt Merrden Hrgh School as teacher of hrstory, rnd coqch of rthletrcs Under hrm some of Merrden s greatest terms were produced Ile beclrne prrn crp'1l of Merrden Hrgh rn 1916, and hfrs hrndled very efhcrently rnd very srtrsfactorrly the 1dmrnrstr'1t1on of Merrden lhybh from then rrntrl now, exceptrrrg 1 short trnre rn the ye urs 1917 frnd 1918 At thrs trrne, he entered the 'rrmv as hrs contrrbutron to hrs country He rose rn a short trme from prrvate to second lreutenfrnt He returned to Merrden rn December IOIS, returned, ne hope, to stay mth us for a xcrx, xerg long time - ' CK 3 72 1 ' - 1 - 1- r , 1 . . . 1 1 1 . 1 1 . 1 1 1 , . 4 1 ' 1 ' ' 1 1 . . . , . 1 . 1 , 1 . 1 - 1 1 1 A L 1 ' L 1 f 1 1 1 ' 1 . 1 .