Viroqua High School - Pipe of Peace Yearbook (Viroqua, WI)

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Administration

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Board of Education W. F. Lindemann, President of the Board of Education, was born and has always lived in Viroqua. He was one of a class of twelve who graduated from the Brick Veneer building when it housed the High School. His later education was received at Beloit College and at Bryant and Strattons Business College in Chicago. At the completion of his college work he became associated with the Bank of Viroqua and has remained with that organization ever since. C. F. Dahl, Clerk of the School Board, is a native of Rock County, Wis., where his boyhood was spent and his early education received. He was grad- uated from the University of Wisconsin in 1884 and came to Viroqua, estab- lishing a drug store on the corner of Main and J efferson Streets in 1887. Mr. Dahl has been a member of the School Board since 1900. T. O. Mork, Treasurer, was born in Norway where he received his com- mon and HS. education. When our genial treasurer left the old world to seek his fortune in the new, he was not unlike Christopher Columbus. The latter went in search of a new route to the Indies, but landed in North America, while Mr. Mork went in search of Purdy, Wis., but landed in Viroqua. He has resided here ever since. He has carefully looked after our school fi- nances for fifteen years. Charles W. Chase, who, in point of years, is the oldest member of the School Board,came to Vernon County thirty-iive years ago,from Dane Coun- ty, where he received his early education. After some years on the farm, he moved to this city so that his children might have the advantage of our schools, and later, each, in his turn, has re- ceived his diploma from our High School. He has therefore been interested in our schools for some time. Mrs. Henry Lindemann, elected last year to the Board of Education, is a native of Grant county, Wis. She is a graduate of Platteville State Nor- mal and University of Wisconsin, and has taught in rural and high schools of Grant county. In 1914 she was elected assistant in the Vernon County Normal and remained a member of its faculty until her marriage three years ago. Her experience as a teacher has given her such a broad outlook on the field of education that she can appreciate the needs of a good school and will do her part to keep Viroquais standards high. Mrs. R. W. Baldwin, Who has served on the school board for six years, was born in Montezuma, Iowa. After graduation from high school she at- tended Iowa State Teachers, College and later graduated from Northwes- tern University from the Music and Arts department. She taught music and arts at Salida, 001., Rhinelander, Wis., and in our own city schools. Mrs. Baldwin takes as keen interest in our schools as when she was a member of the faculty, and gives generously of her time to further the cause of educa- tion in Viroqua. Ray Huschka is one of the home boys, having always lived in or near Viroqua. He was graduated from our high school in 1908,in a class of twen- ty-seven-ethirteen girls and fourteen boys. We believe this is the only class in which there were more boys than girls. He is one of the prosperous young farmers who have helped to put Ver- non county at the front as an agricultural county. 191.