Sparta High School - Spartan Yearbook (Sparta, WI)

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SUPERINTENDENT NICHOLAS GUNDEBSON

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To the Students, Teachers. Alumni, and Citizens of Sparta: My fourteen years of service to the Sparta schools end at the close of this school year. Through the co-operation of all, a great many changes have been brought about in the Sparta schools: new building, new courses, new programs, new departments, and many new activities. I am glad to have had a part in these changes and improvements. The last big high school bond of 328.000 has just been paid, so the schools will now no longer be burdened with a large bond payment. This should help a great deal. l,087'students have graduated under my administration. This is more than half of all the graduates since the organization of the high school sixty years ago. My heart has been in your schools, and I have given the best years of my life in their service. A I hope that the students and teachers will continue to stand for the finest and best in this community, and that they will perpetuate the ideals and idealism I have tried to have the Sparta schools stand for. I have tried to give you an honest and husinesslike administration, and I have done my best. I wish to thank those who have helped make your schools what they are today and I appreciate the many Hue friend- ships and associations. I hope that a united board and citizenship will up- hold the teachers and the new superintendent in their dilficult tasks so that your schools will continue to go on from strength unto strength and from victory unto victory. Sincerely yours,

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