West Allis High School - Wamago Yearbook (West Allis, WI)

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E 1 1 f 7 2 Z f Z.. .. W, ZWW7 1 2 WK 00 1 9 WM MM 9 QWM bww! WM M0512 4 7,01 4 12 6 I 1 2 5 2 2 The purpose of the high school today, since comparatively few go to college and a great. number of them cannot get jobs, is really 'to help the pupils do better the desirable things they are likely to do anyway, and to give them some opportunity to do those things '. This was the theme of a talk given by Mr. R. O. West over station WISN on March 20, 1935, entitled High School Life in West Allis. As principal of this high school for the last fifteen years, Mr. West has seen many changes in the system. Each class brings problems, demands newer methods. It is he who so efficiently handles and solves them. By taking part in educational activities he is able to keep up with modern methods. He is directly responsible for the administration of the school. Miss Ann Butler is his assistant. Mr. West was born in New Cumberland, Ohio. He received his education at the College of Wooster, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University. He began his career by teaching in a country school. Later he was a teacher at high schools in Ashtabula, Zanesville, and Cleveland, Ohio. just before coming to West Allis, he was at the Lakewood Junior and Senior High School, where he helped organize the English department and of which he was made the head. Mr. West has twice been president of the Wisconsin Secondary Principals and Milwaukee Suburban Principals Associations. The opening of the fall term found several new faces in the faculty, among them was that of Mr. Gilbert L. Betts, who filled the position of director of in- struction, vacated last spring by Mr. Harry B. Nash. Mr. Betts was born in Independence, Kansas. He did his under-graduate work at McPherson College, Kansas, and his graduate work at Stanford University, California. Before coming to the West Allis High School, Mr. Betts taught four years in high schools near Los Angeles, California, he spent two years as director of research in Miami, Arizona, public schools, and for three years he was senior specialist in research in the National Teacher Training Survey, conducted by the United States Office of Education. The department of instruction, in past years, has been concerned largely with testing. Now the department is giving less attention to the testing and more to the pupil himself and his experiences. The department is also providing assistance to teachers in reorganizing their courses of study. Miss Alice Singer, graduate of this high school, is secretary to Mr. Betts and is his assistant in the department. Mr. Betts has written, in collaboration with Dr. A. S. Barr, professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Professor W. H. Lancelot, Head of the Education Department at Iowa College, a book entitled Outcomes of Teaching. It was pub- lished this spring.

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