MAUS, L. H., Professor - 1914

MAUS, BLACHLEY, FRISBIE, SHARDLOW, SULLIVAN, CHARLTON, LUEDER, NELSON, MATHEWS, WILSON, MOORE, TRIESHMANN, SPRY, BLISS, WITTICH, COLLARD, STEWART, ROGERS, GILL, TANNER

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

PROFESSOR L. H. MAUS.

Professor L. H. Maus, who for a number of years has been superintendent of schools in Cherokee, is a man whose force of character and natural ability have carried him forward into important relations with educational interests of this part of Iowa. He was born in Aledo, Illinois, and acquired his education in the public schools of that locality and in the Nebraska Wesleyan University. He has been for eighteen years connected with educational work and is a well known speaker on the chautauqua platform and has been connected with the Redpath Bureau for several years.

Since 1905 Professor Maus has been superintendent of school in Cherokee and has accomplished excellent and farreaching work in this important office. He is particularly interested in the progress of the Cherokee high school and his efforts along this line have the enthusiastic support of the board of directors, which is as follows: F. F. Frisbie, president; William Shardlow, secretary; C. Sullivan treasurer; E. R. Charlton; C. F. Lueder; J. R. Nelson: and J. J. Mathews. Sadie Wilson is principal of the school and has under her an unusually efficient corps of teachers; Ella Moore having charge of the Latin department; Helena Trieshmann, English; Daisy Spry, German; May Bliss, domestic science; Helen Wittich, music; Mary Collard, mathematics; John Stewart, history and athletics; Fred Rogers, science; Ralph Gill, the commercial department; and J. H. Tanner, manual training. The school offers a choice of five courses, Latin, English, scientific, business and normal training, a total of eight years work, the completion of any course gaining the student admission to any accredited college in the middle west. The high school building is modern in every respect, having seventeen rooms, including a science laboratory, a domesticscience room, a manualtraining department and a library containing fifteen hundred volumes. The enrollment averages two hundred and twenty-five and the school has a high standing in both scholarship and athletics, having won the state championship in football in 1911, its team having suffered no defeats in three years.

The debating team is also unusually capable and held the state championship in 1910. Professor Maus has given a great deal of his attention to this school, installing modern courses of study and working for that cooperative spirit which is the basis of all successful efforts. He is an able educator, who has been a constant student of best methods of instruction and his own zeal and interest in the work have largely inspired his associates and pupils. Progress has been his watchword since the beginning and his labors have been attended with a measure of success which makes him one of the most prominent representatives of the public school system in Iowa.

Professor Maus married Miss Ada I. Blachley of Lincoln, Nebraska, and they have become the parents of three children: Leon H., Jr., at home; Carroll, deceased: and Marjory at home. Professor Maus is well known in the Methodist Episcopal church, being a member of the building committee and of the Brotherhood class in the Sunday school. He is connected fraternally with the Masonic lodge. He has been for eighteen years identified with educational interests and in his professional career has worked his way gradually upward until he today occupies a position of distinction as one of the prominent educators of the state.