PELLA HIGH SCHOOL

In this year 1922 Pella has many beautiful homes and ornate public buildings,
but none that her citizens consider with greater pride than our High School
building, with everything in the way of modern equipment, and surrounded by its
beautiful grounds. This building was erected in 1915 at a total cost of $52,514.

The board under whose management this important, forward step was taken was
composed of the following members: E. M. Cole, P. Van Sittert, J. S.
Rhynsburger, Simon De Haan and George J. Thomassen. Secretary, D. G. Gosselink.

It is the province of history to give credit where credit is due; and this brief
sketch of our High School would be incomplete if we failed to mention Mr. Peter
Du Pree, the efficient janitor, to whose untiring and skillful work we owe the
fact that the school grounds are the beauty spot of our fair city. There may be
public grounds somewhere in the state that are more beautiful; if there are, we
have not visited that particular locality. There may be a janitor somewhere in
Iowa who takes a greater pride in doing his work well; if there is we have not
met him.

The public schools at present are under the supervision of F. M. Frush, who came
to Pella in March, 1906, since which time there has been a steady growth and
development in keeping with the best ideas of modern school affairs.

He is ably assisted by a corps of twenty to twenty-four teachers, those employed
for the school year 1922-23 being as follows:

High School— W. J. Ollivier, Principal; Mrs. C. Richardson, normal training;
Henrietta Verheul, mathematics and Latin; E. Jean Bonar, English; Elsie Johnson,
history; Theo Hafner, home economics; Estelle Kuyper, commercial; Earl W.
Manuel, manual training.

Junior High School— Dora Bootsma, Principal, history and geography; Marie
Lautenbach, English; Will Brunia, mathematics.

New High School Builing [sic]