Park Hill High School - Troyian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Superintendent Russell G. ,T ones, Superintendent, successfully tmdertaking the problems of a new, rapidly growing school system, still finds time to be a friend to all students and their parents. Under Mr, J' ones' supervision the school has grown rapidly in the last ten years, and during this time the old Parkville district has consolidated with several outlying districts, annexed, and reorganized. The school district has tripled in size during this period of time. A complete new high school and an elementary building have been built, and sixteen rooms have been added to Graden school. Mr. J ones graduated from Warrensburg with a B.S. Degree in education, and from the University of Missouri with a Master's Degree in education. He also has additional graduate work at the University of Kansas City, Mr. Jones' first job was as a rural school teacher in a one-room school, then as an elementary principal. He- was principal and coach at the high school at Nettleton, Missouri. He coached atBethany, Missouri, and was superintendent for three years at Kingston, Missouri. He has been superintendent of the R5 school district for ten years. During that time the enroll- ment has grown from 716 to approximately 2,000,

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From The Office R-5 Board of Education Mrs. Violet Klutz, Secretary to the Board and Superin- ' A tendentg Mrs, Dorothy Iankowski, Elementary Secretaryg Mrs. MI' Jones nght arm' Thelma Battmer, High School Secretary. Thanks for your help on the R-5 News! We 've been robbed! Mrs. Battrner and the office girls.

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Principal Marvin E. Fleming, Principal, is completing his fifth year of successfully guiding students and operating the affairs of Park Hill High School. Among his many fine accomplishments at Park Hill, Mr. Fleming has increased the curriculum to top-notch standards, provided many new services including a guidance and counseling program, set up an outstanding activities program, secured a better unity in the student body, and helped establish a high caliber faculty, Mr. Fleming received a B.S. Degree from Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg, and his Masters' Degree from Kansas State College in Manhattan. He has done additional work at Kansas City University and is presently doing graduate work at the University of Colorado at Boulder during the simmer. Mr. Fleming's first job was at Amoret,Missouri. He also was a coach and teacher at Lansing, Kansasg a junior high school principal at the Post School at Fort Leavenworth, and Superintendent of Schools at Camden Point before coming to the R-5 District.