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schools in the consolidation. Charles B. 

 Shuman, lAA board member, Moultrie 

 county reported that they had a situation 

 of that kind but that they intended to 

 have one attendance unit wherever they 

 would be permitted to build a new build- 

 ing. Their district included five old dis- 

 tricts and has been in operation for three 

 years. Their 65 children attend three 

 schools, the 1st and 2nd grades in one 

 building, and the 6th, 7th and 8th grades 

 in a third. A complete story on this 

 school district was carried in the February, 

 1944, issue of the lAA Record. The ar- 

 ticle will be found on page 6 of that 

 issue. Mr. Shuman declared, "you find 

 that transportation is what folks are most 

 afraid of about reorganization, but when 

 they see the advantages of bus service, 

 it becomes the most important talking 

 point for larger districts." 



Mr. Gilmore of Greene county asked 

 about increasing the financial aid. Then 

 the discussion turned to the advisability of 

 a re-enactment of the School Survey Law 

 of 1941. There seemed to be consider- 

 able interest in its re-enactment and a 

 number of people expressed the opinion 

 that they thought it should receive more 

 favorable reception in the various coun- 

 ties now that its purpose was better un- 

 derstood. 



Paul G)nkUn, president of the State 

 Association of County Superintendents, 

 was asked to give his opinion of why the 

 School Sur\'ey Law of 1941 achieved such 

 meager results. He said that perhaps it 

 came too suddenly. Also people in the 

 past have been afraid of the term "con- 

 solidation." Again, he said, many peo- 

 ple thought that the legislature did not 

 appropriate enough money to each coun- 

 ty to make an adequate survey. 



Mr. Longerman of Madison county 

 asked what could be done where consol- 

 idation was impossible and where some 

 pupils were sent out of the district to 

 other schools. He wanted to know what 



could be done to protect the home dis- 

 trict. John Watson of the lAA staff 

 stated that the school to which the strayed 

 pupils had gone could not legally collect 

 either general or special state aid on 

 those non-resident pupils but that the 

 home district could collect general aid on 

 those pupnls who were attending school 

 elsewhere just the same as on those who 

 remained in the home school. 



Mr. Marshall of LaSalle county called 

 attention to the recommendations in the 

 school report that a county superintendent 

 be allowed to appoint extra supervisors 

 for rural schools and recommended that 

 in order to take the appointment of these 

 supervisors completely out of politics, it 

 had best be done by a board or commit- 

 tee chosen by and from the rural area 

 and acquainted with their interests. 



There were a number of other sugges- 

 tions made and questions asked and an- 

 swered, but we attempted to give you 

 only an idea of the trend of the discus- 

 sion. 



A number of people prominent in the 

 field of education and particularly inter- 

 ested in rural school improvement were 

 present, among whom were the follow- 

 ing: Cary C. Byerly, first assistant to the 

 State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion ; Paul Conklin, president of the State 

 Association of County Superintendents; 

 Alden B. Mills, president of the Illinois 

 Association of School Boards; Robert 

 Cole, executive director of the Illinois As- 

 sociation of School Boards; John Strohm, 

 managing editor of Prairie Farmer; Dr. 

 Hans Olsen, College of Education, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; H. D. Bossert, direc- 

 tor of planning of the Postwar Planning 

 Commission; and Prof. D. E. Lindstrom, 

 College of Agriculture, University of Il- 

 linois. 



Appreciation was expressed for the 

 amount of time spent and the sacrifice 

 made by members of the lAA school 

 committee in making their report and 

 commendation for their success. 



H. r. Mnllooly Is Hired 

 As IPC Quality Fieldman 



H. F. "Bert" MuUooly, graduate of 



of the University of Wisconsin in dairy 



manufacturing in 1935, began work Nov. 



15 as quality field- 



^^^^ man for the Illinois 



0^tk producers' Cream- 



E J eries. He succeeds 



^^'•HBB D. H. Jacobsen, who 



Vl^M|r has taken a position 



^^^^^JJk with a dairy manu- 



^^^^^^^^^^ facturing equipment 



^^^^l^^^^H company in charge 



^^^Hnj^^^H of laboratory exper- 



^^^^^^^^^H work with 



^^^^^^^^^^^ washing powders. 



Dr. Jacobsen started 



work with the IPC in April, 1941, when 



Dave Henry went in the Army. 



Mullooly is the oldest son of L. M. 

 MuUooly, who served as a director of 

 Pure Milk Association for more than 1 1 

 years and retired in 1942 because he 

 had to give more time to his 181 -acre 

 dairy farm at Clinton, Wis., since two 

 of his sons are in the Army. The two in 

 the Army are Sgt. William, stationed 

 in this country, and Cpl. Gordon in the 

 South Pacific. One son, Henry, is help- 

 ing his father with the dairy herd of 

 35 cows at home. 



After graduation from the University 

 of Wisconsin, Bert Mullooly worked as 

 butter maker at the university for eight 

 months and then in 1936 went with an 

 ice cream company at Milwaukee as 

 » plant manager. He later was trans- 

 ferred to the company's Fond du Lac 

 plant in 1937, and from 1940 to Novem- 

 ber, 1944, worked as plant manager for 

 several large dairy companies. 



"Since my Dad has always been active 

 in Farm Bureau and cooperative work, 

 I naturally became interested in the co- 

 operative field. That's why I came to 

 work for the Illinois Producers' Cream- 

 eries," Bert said. Bert is 33 years old, 

 is married and has four children. 



At the iarm advisers'-Fann Bureau presi- 

 dents' lundieon, left to right, Verne Hol- 

 land, assistant manager. Farmers Mutual 

 Beinsurance Company; Clyde D. Herbert, 

 president, Fulton Farm Bureau; I. E. Watt, 

 Fulton farm adviser; H. E. Hartley, presi- 



dent, Washington Form Bureau; A. B. 

 Rowond. Washington farm adviser. In 

 picture to right, seated, left to right are 

 Ray H. lackson, president. Stark Farm 

 Bureau; W. A. Gilbert, Stark farm ad- 

 viser; H. H. Lett, Wabash farm adviser; 



L. E. lingenfelter, Winnebago county, sec- 

 retary. Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com- 

 pany, and Leslie B. Broom, Pulaski-Alex- 

 ander farm adviser. This joint session 

 began at 10:00 A.M. and adjourned at 

 4:00 P.M. 



DEC3SMBER, 1944 



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