Niles Township High School East - Reflections Yearbook (Skokie, IL)

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YET FINDS TIME TO BE FRIENDLY WITH EVERY STUDENT Dr. Joseph Mason, B.S., Bradley University, M.S., Ed.M., Ed.D., University of Illinois. Superintendent is Webster ' s very simple word for the complex operation of overseeing or directing some work, en¬ terprise or institution. Dr. Mason knows from experience how inadequately this word describes the many roles he plays. He has the responsibility of overseeing a school pro¬ gram to meet the needs of each of us, of providing leadership and direction for a faculty dedicated to the carrying out of this program, of interpreting the needs of the community in whose service the school finds its reasons for being. Moreover, he is active in civic and educational organizations; he is presi¬ dent of the Rotary Club, president of the Illinois Association of School Administrators, and a member of the Governor ' s Com¬ mittee on Education, a subsidiary of President Eisenhower ' s Committee on Education. And yet Dr. Mason is one of us, a man whose warm greeting is known even to the freshmen. Dr. Mason, architects Edwin Bruno and Thomas Higgins, and Miss Helen Johanns study blueprints for the new north wing.