Wilson High School - Wilsonian Yearbook (West Lawn, PA)

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w I i TEA ,Zi e 2 ,K 3,1 ,W EPILOGUE TO A LIFETIME OF SERVICE Mr. William C. Kutz, Supervising Principal of the Wilson, School System, is retiring after thirty-one years of unstinting service. He leaves behind a record of achieve- ments that have kept this school progressive and have brought local fame. Well-known and respected throughout half the state, he has always believed public work and life to be interesting and challenging. In 1918 Mr. Kutz graduated from Kutztown Normal School with a high school diploma and a license to teach. He served a few months in t.he army and then went to Franklin and Marshall College to earn his B. A. His richest educational years were spent at Columbia University, where he received his masters degree in 1928. At Temple University and Penn State he worked for his doctorate, which is complete except for a dissertation. Mr. Kutz came to Wilson in 1935 as High School Prin- cipal and was appointed Supervising Principal within the year. Since that time Wilson has had the coLu1ty's first driver training, vocational agricultu.re, home economics, and business courses, as well as the first student treasury, class bleyond the schoolroom, and remedial and develop- mental reading program. During his administration the Jointurie has spent millions of dollars for beautiful, well- equipped schools. Today Wilson has the first pool in the county and the most complete, compact athletic center, while in the ne ar future it will have educational television for all classes and an IBM computer for school processing and advanced math. Our school is t.he ninth educational park in the United States. Mr. Kutz has been the influential force behind these projects, and his tireless efforts have not gone unrewarded. From 1954 to 1956 he was President of the Supervising Principals of five districts in the state, and he attended eight national conventions and toured forty-five states. During 1956 he was offered the job of County Superinten- dent, but he declined. Among organizations he is a Mason and belongs to Phi Delta Kappa, the American Legion, and the Rotary club. Feeling during his administration that he received wonderful public support and thoroughly enjoying his job, he almost regrets retiring. But he has plans to go deep-sea fishing and traveling and to do family research and gardening after he resigns. Wilson has become the excellent, all-around school that it is today because of Mr. Kutz's forward-looking ideas and his proficient leadership. When he leaves, Wilson will be the less. h

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Wilson joint Board of Education members, FRONT ROW: Mrs. J. Pomeroy, Mr. M. Miller, Treas.5 Mr. W. Hitchcock, Pres., Mr A. Raffauf, Vice-Pres., Mr. J. Clapper, Sec., Dr. E. Barth. SECOND ROW: Mr. M. Reiff, Mr. E. Erb, Mr. F. Keene, Mr. V. gmebnpr, Mr, T. Greene, Mr. B. Hartman. MISSING FROM PHOTO: Mrs. J. Eways, Mrs. S. Graffius, Mr. D. Miller, Mr. 1. towe . , BOARD OF EDUCATIO The duty of providing proper tools of education for the Wilson student lies with the Wilson joint School Board. The Wilson joint Authority, created to construct and lease buildings to the Board, is responsible for the physical plant of the school. These organizations consist of dedicated men and women who, sewing without pay, contrib- ute many hours of their time in pursuit of improved local educational standards. Wilson joint Authority, FRONT ROW: Dr. A. johnson, Mr. A. Holtzman, Mrs. C. Shaplin, Mr. C. Reedy. SECOND ROW: Mr. L. Keller, Mr. P. Geib, Mr. C. Quinter, Mr. R. Bollman, Mr. R. Schaeffer.

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,NNN ADMINISTRATQRS MR. CLAYTON D. REHRER Secondary Principal There are five tests of the evidence of education -- correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standardsg power and habit of reflectiong efficiency or the power to do. -- Nicholas Murray Butler DR. AARON R. MILLER High School Principal Education should be a conscious, methodical appli- cation of the best means in the wisdom of the ages to the end that youth may know how to live completely. -- Austin O'Malley MR. ARLAN R. MOYER junior High School Principal The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and not a reservoir. That which is filled by merely ptunping in, will be emptied by pumping out. -- john M. Mason