Neoga High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Neoga, IL)

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Principal Ralph White stands ready to begin a new day.

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Superintendent Louis K. Voris begins work with a slimmer-than-usual portfolio. Administration Keeps Pace with New Trends in Education In asking any one of the administrational personnel of Unit 3 and Neoga High School, “What are your daily duties? an interviewer might at first get a puzzled look. It is not an easy question to answer. Yes, the duties are demanding, and they are widely varied. In fact, their extreme variation from day to day make the list of duties amazing to the average person, but routine to the administration. As Superintendent, Mr. Voris is not only the chief unit administrator but also the representative of the school district on the county, area, and state levels. It is his ever-spiraling task to maintain the best pos- sible educational opportunities for nearly one-thousand students. High School Principal Ralph White directs the program of education for 270 students. Since the high school is more than a place for education, Mr. White’s responsibilities also tend toward scheduling extra- curricular activities like assemblies and athletic contests. Unit Secretary Gertrude Grecson and High School Secretary Mildred Dole, maintaining records and accounts, help in making the unit and high school smooth-running. 20

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Staff and Curricula Increase With the continuing pressures for the im- provement of education, the nineteen member faculty at N.H.S. began the year with changes aplenty. New faces this year were those of Mrs. Leach in girls physical education, Mrs. Larsen in business, and Mr. Byers in math. Business teacher Mr. Albin became guidance counselor replacing Mr. Smith, who left to work for Eastern Area Development Service Unit. Mrs. Voris assumed new duties as full time unit librarian and audio-visual director. It became Mrs. Voris’s duty to rearrange the entire library center and to extend the facilities all over the unit. In addition to the new faces, there were new classes added to the curriculum. In these additions, teachers worked with administrators in forming several classes, supported in theory and in finance by E.A.D.S.U. A new English V class, Comparative Literature, was added; during second semester a control group of civics students formed a pilot group in indi- vidualized study; and several teachers held class sessions that were based on the informal teacher-as-a-resource-person basis. During summer and the regular school year nearly half the staff members were continuing work on advanced degrees at area state universities. Stan Albin Guidance Counselor Carol Fuller Speech Correctionist Tom Alexander P.E., Driver Education Brad Lacey Vocational Agriculture 22