Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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VHS ' s administration , from Board of Education to Faculty, Kept a tight hold on the Elements of Change... Planning the new high school; Remodeling the old; Sticking to a budget; Counseling wayward Students; Keeping standards high; Acting as coaches, teachers. Friends; Searching for new teaching Methods; Acting as “ father ” For a thousand students. Secretaries Making ends meet and Controlling chaos; Maintenance- Making VHS comfortable for Us, The administration ' s “babies.” ADMINISTRATION 18

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WILLIAM WELLMAN Vice-President CHARLES BOWMAN President JOSEPH DURAND Secretary Board Motivates Elements of Change The five members of the Val- paraiso Board of Education con- tinued to initiate and develop plans for the new senior high school, to be completed by August, 1971, The target date for the adoption of the final plans being prepared by the Everett I. Brown Company, Archi- tects Engineers, was December, 1969, and the bids were “let” in February, 1970. Suggestions from VHS faculty members, students, and a citizens committee were in- corporated into the final plans. Problems concerning the work on the present high school, which is to be converted into a new junior high, were also supervised by the five Board members. Another of their “jobs” was to manage the many problems related to person- nel, to maintenance of the schools, to salaries, to school policies, and to the “tight” budget of the Board of Education. MANN SPITLER Member 20