Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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l ffafwof ' ' ' n, Sf1If7ez'i11le11de11l Siferl pomferr llve problem of producing ifll tiff'-lllilltfwf P7'UL'j.liU, iii' Mimi Riiftffe remrdi five remff,i'. HE Otlice of Production Management talias Adminis- trationj is the master cog in the entire Proviso machine. A balanced force of competent directors and able assistants. it regulates the precision-movement of the institution. It is the axle on which the entire school revolves. A statistical clearing house, it keeps records of personnel, pupil, and production activity. It deals with all transfers and depart- ment changes, and through it pass receipts and requisitions for all essential materials. Otlicial head of our OPM is Superintendent E. R. Sifert, the guiding hand on the lever of this vast machine. Miss Blanche Riddle has been his private secretary since January, 1945, when Mrs. Shirley Zeinfeld resigned. SSISTANT Superintendent C. C. Taggart is the section manageruof the main otiice, whose responsibility it is to keep all machines well-oiled and running smoothly. He couples his keen executive ability with a ready humor, literally pouring oil on troubled waters. Wlien he is not engrossed in the main-office functions, he is contacting the various grade schools in Proviso township, for his is the task of preparing and advising eighth grade students regarding high school enrollment. ISS MARY CARROLL, registrar, heads the corps of ladies in the office. Much ot licr time is consumed by the many details of high school-college relations. Mr. Taggart! rozzlezzlplafef iz brand neu' ,rclvwfze fm' ailing bfi' edfzmfinmzf fzffzcbizrefy. ffzdgifzg from all .zppem'fzm'e,f. Alirr Cizrmll jimfr lfzrmlnc- firm recwdr for flag V1 em' qzzile .i,ZIjlif,It'fIH 1'.

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The Huaad og cufwn, E. R. Sifert, Louis Ancel, John M. Newcomer, Harry XXI Ewert. Fred E. Meyer, B. Leslie Allen, XX'illiam A. Gee. HE BOARD OF EDUCATION, Proviso Township high school's Wz1r Production Board, is the overseer of all operations within the institution. Its five members, elected by the voters of the township, are the legislative body whose responsibility it is to determine such policies as are needed to keep the school running at top speed and yet retain the high standards established in peace-time. Production policies, problems, and transactions are their concern. WILLIAM A. CEE, of May- wood, has served as president of the board during 1942. He was elected to the board in 19-11 as the first personnel change in five years, B. LESLIE ALLEN, of Melrose Park, is secretary of the board, now completing his tenth year of service. He was elected for a fourth term of three years in April, 1942. He served as board president during the previous year. HARRY W. EWERT, of May- wood, nine years a board membe1', was secretary of the board during the 1941--42 term. He has also served as president. He was reelected last April. FRED E. MEYER, of Forest Park, is the newest member of the board, elected in April, 1942. 10000- Mrr. dIm'grz1'el Davies' cwzrfzlfr az weighty fedger. ARL R. SIFERT is completing his seventh year as superintendent of Proviso Township high school. Dur- ing the past school year he has guided the war-time adjust- ments of a large institution with a firm but gentle hand. He has seen the school through a year of concentrated war effort, OUIS ANCEL is retained by the board as attorney. He was a student of Proviso, Class of '2-i, and was grad- uated from Northwestern University Law school in 1931. He is a graduate of Proviso, Class of '18, and attended the University of Illinois. Now with the Pressed Steel Car company, he was former- ly affiliated with the Foley Green- wwmdmm house Manufacturing company of Forest Park for fifteen years. He has been a resident of Proviso township all his life. jOHN M. NEWCOMER, of Maywood, began his fourth term of service in April, 1941. During his eleven years on the board, he has acted at various times as presi- dent or as secretary. MRS. MARGARET DAVIES directs Proviso's Office of Price Administration. Her books of trial balances bear witness to Provisos financial production suc- cesses which balance the trials of a school in war-time.

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'I'o,f1.' H. E, Carr. Miss Virginia Hayward, Miss Lois Monte, DI. XX'. Hinds, Otto Dillner, Miss Ruth Beck. 1501111111: C. C. Taggart, li. R. Sifert. Miss Blanche Riddle, Miss The Cfo.LLn,4,eZ0lz,d, OUNSELORS of Proviso have always found a multi- tudinous variety of trials and tribulations to absorb their every attention. Personal problems connected with war conditions have still further increased their activities. Theirs is the work of smoothing out the knots that en- snarl the strange mechanics of the human mind and slow its progress. They often serve as an employment agency. Miss Lois Moore and W. Hinds concern themselves with junior-senior problemsg Miss Ruth Beck and Otto Dillner deal with sophomore queries. Miss Virginia Hayward and H. E. Carr help the freshman boys and girls to adjust them- selves to a complicated institution. 12 000- Lois hfoore, R. A. Bullington. Otto Dillner, R. C. Geffen, .Miss Dorothy Thompson. Miss Xxvlflllilflkkl Shepard, Miss Fae Duvall, lf, XV. Stubbs. Qaauftg, Cfommfltteed, HE Faculty Advisory committee, a cabinet to Superine tendent Sifert, was newly organized last fall. As a group of tive among the teachers longest on Proviso's per- sonnel roll, they meet with the superintendent to discuss various problems of the school. Members of the committee are C. C. Taggart, Miss Fae Duvall, Miss Winnafred Shepard, L. W. Remley, and E. W. Stubbs. HE Defense Council, under the leadership of R. C. Geffen, is a coordinator between faculty and students. lt was organized last year to formulate plans for an air raid system and school defense. Members are Miss Dorothy Thompson, Miss Lois Moore, C. C. Taggart, R. A. Bulling- ton, H. L. Cooper, and Otto Dillner.