Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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Mrs. Mikol Miss Johnson Miss Cramer MAIN OFFICE OF BOARD OF EDUCATION As we peek in at the main office of the Board of Education located in the Central Junior High School building at the corner of Peck Street and Sherman Boulevard. we find the ever alert employes, Mrs. Mikol. Miss Bessie Cramer. and Miss Gertrude Johnson. Mrs. Mikol was born in Muskegon. Michigan. She was graduated from Muskegon Heights High school in 1930. She is now employed in the office as Child Accounting Clerk. Her work includes the annual school census, records, and marks of all students who have ever attended school. She also is an assistant in the book store. Mrs. Mikol is very fond ol shopping: in fact she spends a great deal of her time doing so. She enjoys traveling to distant places. At pres- ent she is taking camera shots of interesting pictures for a collection for the library. In her spare time she plays the newest game craze. Badminton, Miss Bessie Cramer was born in Muskegon. Michigan, was graduated from Muskegon High School in 1919, and is now employed as book- keeper in the office. Her work is that of taking care of the teachers' payroll, statistical reports, and bills for payment with the necessary approv- al. Miss Cramer enjoys hiking and a great deal of her spare time is spent in sewing fancy work. She is also fond of Badminton Miss Gertrude Iohnson was born in Muskegon, Michigan. She attended Muskegon Heights High School and was graduated with the class of 1924. She is now employed as secretary to Mr. W. R. Booker, Superintendent of Schools. Her work includes all correspondence which has been received or sent, orders for supplies, taking the minutes of the Board of Education meetings, and granting permits for school buildings. Miss John- son also spends a great deal of her time playing Badminton, shopping. and traveling. Miss Iohnson is also working on an amateur photogra- phy collection for the library. 14

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SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Responsibility rests in the hands of our Super- intendent of Schools, Mr. William R. Booker. Mr. Booker was born in Sullivan, Indiana. He attended school in another city and upon graduating from high school, attended the University of Indiana. While attending the University, he taught school and received his A.B. degree in 1916. Later, in the year 1926, he received his master's degree. Mr. Booker has been a teacher in Michigan schools for 18 years. He was also a member of the faculty at Kalamazoo College. Before his present position, he was Superintendent of Schools at Greenville, Michigan. Mr. Booker's ideas and ideals on education are all summed up in his statement, The edu- cation ol our boys and girls is a function of the State and the Nation. Every child is entitled to an education. 'Education is the eternal debt of adults to youth.' Under Mr. Booker's supervision much work is achieved, all ior one purpose: to educate. It is Mr. Booker who is called upon when there are knotty problems to solve, and he is very adept at solving them. The beneficial work this man has accomplished is greatly appreciated by all who have ever come in contact with him.

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llc... OUR PRINCIPAL Mr. Bolt's career has been one ot continuous school work, as student, teacher, and principal. He attended Grand Haven schools for twelve years, and upon graduation, entered the Uni- versity of Michigan. During the summers he has continued his work at Ann Arbor and at the University of Wisconsin. At the close of the summer session oi August, 1928, he was awarded a Master's Degree in Economics by the University of Michigan. His first teaching experience was at Houghton in the Upper Peninsula, in mathe- matics and science. After one year, he became principal of the high school at Bismarck, North 15 Dakota. Mr. Bolt came to Muskegon Heights High School in the tall oi 1921. He enjoys high school and college athletic contests and much prefers them to the profes- sional games. He also likes to read biography, travel, and books on economic problems. We all respect Mr. Bolt as a principal and an adviser. He helps us when we seek his advice and it is his aim to give every student a fair chance while at school. His is the task ol assisting us each year to begin life in this world, and to succeed in it.