Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Administrators Current School Determine Policies middle Valparaiso’s policy-making and governing body is composed of Mr. Mann Spitler, Jr., president; Mrs. Gene Myers, vice-president; Dr. D. P. LaCount, treasurer; Mr. Joseph Durand, secretary; Mr. Preston Platt, member; and Mr. G. Warren Phillips, superintendent. The members are appointed every four years and rotate in these offices. The school board’s most important function is to provide in- creased educational opportunities for all stu- dents. lower left This fall the school board was responsible for the installation of a cafeteria in the newly re- modeled gymnasium at Benjamin Franklin Junior High School. This provides a hot lunch program at the junior high which serves approximately 250 students each day.

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“Knowledge is Power” Valparaiso High School’s academic department strives to teach students not only knowledge in the form of isolated facts, but also as a foundation for future learning. Whether the individual con- tinues formal education or prepares for a commercial or domestic career, the education of Valparaiso’s students is based on the ideal that high school education is a beginning and a basis of continued learning. 7 he academic departments teach the students how to find needed data or information , how to develop an idea through fur- ther study, and how to put into effective use that which they al- ready know. The VHS student learns that “Knowledge is Power.” 21

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upper right Administrating school policies, guiding cur- riculum development, directing personnel and finances, and representing our community in educational circles is only a summary of the many responsibilities of Mr. G. Warren Phil- lips, superintendent of Valparaiso Community Schools. He is also active in many local civic activities and in state educational organiza- tions. Mr. Phillips has achieved national prominence as a member of the executive board of the American Association of High School Administrators. He is becoming in- ternationally prominent through a recent trip abroad. In October 1963 he made a thirty- nine day tour of Sweden sponsored by the “Meet Modern Sweden Committee” in co- operation with the Swedish government. He accompanied eighty other superintendents from thirty-eight states as they traveled to Stockholm, Uppsala, Lapland, and Osterund. These superintendents discussed the educa- tional systems of the two countries with Swe- dish officials. lower right Mr. King Telle as principal of VHS is vitally interested in all functions of the school. He strives to maintain the reputation of VHS throughout the state as a first class school aca- demically and socially. Mr. Telle has been principal at VHS for seventeen years, during which time he has seen the building of a new addition, the introduction of television as a means of teaching, and the advent of space- age minded education. Besides carrying out his duties as principal, Mr. Telle coaches the golf team and enthusiastically supports all other sports. 23