Winnebago High School - Winneb Yearbook (Winnebago, IL)

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SCHOOL BOARD ☆ One should know something about the persons who constitute the school board for they are the guiding light of our institution of learning. We pride ourselves on having a good board of education and appreciate their efforts in maintaining our school building, hiring the faculty, appropri- ating sufficient funds for supplies and necessities, and for helping to improve our present school curriculum. For these reasons we are dedicating this Winneb to them and are pub- lishing the following information about them. There are seven members on the school board. This year the board included W. C. Oakes, the president, who was elected last spring. Mr. Oakes is employed in a local store. He has two sons in the service, and two daugh- ters, one of whom is in school. Clarence Nevens is the senior member of the board and is finishing his seventh term. He has one son in the service. Mr. Nevens is a well-known Holstein-Fresian breeder and lives on his farm west of town where his father lived before him. Mrs. Wilma McMichael, the secre- tary of the board, is serving her second term. She is a retired school teacher. Herbert Johnson is finishing his first full term, having served an unexpired term for another member. He resides on his farm south of town and has two children in school. Calvin Korf, who is serving his second term, is employed by the Smith-Goodyear service station in Rockford. He has three children in school. Houston, employed at the J. I. Case Co. in Rockford, is serving his first term. He has one son in school. Eugene Mitchell, who moved this spring to a farm that he bought outside of the district, was serving his first term. He has a son in the service and two in school. All the members are property owners and members of the local Presbyterian church. Each April two members and a president are elected. The president holds office for one year and the others for three years. Any person over twenty- one who lives in this district, number 124, and meets the usual requirements of a candidate for office may circulate an application of candidacy—which he secures, from the secretary. After obtaining ten per cent of the voters signa- tures of the district, he presents the notarized petition to the secretary. He does this not later than twenty-one days before the election date which is set by the county superintendent. After election an organization meeting is held and a clerk appointed. Meetings are held on the last Monday of each month throughout the year and special meetings are sometimes called to transact business. Their services are gratuitous.