Southwestern Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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Mrs. Cole, Lee R. Mafhewsun. LAKEWOOD PRINCIPAL AND CLERK RINCIPAL of the Lakewood Branch of Southwestern Central is Lee R. Mathewson, who was graduated from Syracuse University and was granted his Master's Degree in Education frofm Qolumbia University. Mr. Mathewson has done much to enlarge the opportunities offered to the pupils of this branch of the school. He organized the methods and procedure, and obtained approval of the six-year High School in Lake- wood. He is active in community affairs and educational organizations of the county and state. He has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada. Mrs. Cole has been connected with the Lakewood School system in different capacities f,or many years. She has been a member of the Board of Education, clerk of the school district and school office clerk. The wife of E. B. Cole and mother of a Lakewood graduate, Dr. John Oliver Cole, now in research department of Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. Needles, safety pins, cloth patches and lunch money are dispensed by this pseudo-mother of the children, while for the teachers, she patiently prints tests, examinations and all the various materials needed for many classes. 12

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OFFICE O MOST of us the office is the heart of the school Where :Official plans are made efliciently and administered easily by our principal and his assistant. Mr. Rood, Wise to resolve and patient to perform, has been our principal for six years. He graduated from the Clarkson College of Technology with a B. S. in Civil Engineering and received his M. S. at Albany State Teachers' College. Pearl Butts who was Mr. Rood's secretary until the fall of 1947 when she resigned had.-been in the office for ten years. She was tem- porarily replaced by Mrs. Reeves until a permanent secretary, Mrs. Ela- dor Carlson, was employed. 13