Watertown High School - Orbit Yearbook (Watertown, WI)

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TO THE PIRIT F Ll ITY dilfl C00 67Z6lii0lfL ilfl, iA6 we.4fe'm emfa eze In creating a good will policy we look to our leaders, at home and abroad. There have been great men who fostered Pan-Hmerican friendship long before it was considered a vital part of our foreign policy. Such men were, and are, Iames G. Blaine, Grover Cleve- land, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles from the United States: Simon Bolivar, San Martin, and Iuarez from South Hmerica. The Good Neighbor Policy is a deliberate, system- atic, and integrated attempt to improve North Hmer- ican relations with Latin Hmericaf' IOHN GUNTHER ,.1---1 -1.- ff '- '1- ' .- ,,....-1 ,.f- ,1 ,,. ... ..-..- ,.. .J-u'-v--'i ... ,1 .....,--L ... , .2 .. ff... .. ... -- g ' - - ..- Alll' ,,- W f f ll ,, 1,4 l A,,,..- ..- ,- ,,,n'--- ,-4' ww ,,.... .L ..-i,,..,, ,......- ...- 155

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l Farewell, Mr Buell R. BUELL was born on a farm near Lake Gen- eva. He obtained his early education there and in Janesville. He was graduated from Beloit College in 1901. Botany was his major subject. He played tackle on a football team which competed with Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin. He recalls playing against Wisconsin's immortal Pat O'Dea. He was a member of the Man- dolin Club in which he played violin and a member of the Glee Club in which he sang tenor. Hfter college he engaged in the teaching pro- fession for several years. Then he returned to Lake Geneva to help manage his father's farm. He once said that he thought Hamlin Garland in his writing had exaggerated the hardships of the farmer of the Middlewest. When he returned to teaching, it was to Water- town that he came first as a teacher and the following year as principal. His students have affirmed him a very fine teacher. During these years the present high school was built. In 1920 he went to Milton as principal for four years and then returned to Water- town as Superintendent of Schools. In this capacity he has served for eighteen years. Within these years the junior high school was built. Mr. Buell speaks with pride of the fact that he has seen all five of his children graduate from the Watertown High School. Mr. Buell has well merited his reputation of a scholarly and dignified school man. In an era of ex- perimentalism and faddishness, he has continued to uphold the sound academic standards of the pub- lic school. Ht the same time, his school has many progressive features. Hmong these are a speech correction instructor, a dental hygienist, an oppor- tunity room, and a cafeteria. Hmong Mr. Buell's personal tastes and hobbies, music has been his first love. Ht one time there was a Buell family orchestra. The innovation of the music festival in the school was a carry-over of this interest. He has always been a great and varied reader. His interest in traveling has taken him to all parts of the United States. To see him in a more homely guise would require merely to look in his garden where he spends much time. 647 r . -.L

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