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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOHN BAUMGARTNER.
    John Baumgartner, superintendent of schools at Brinkley, is a splendid type
of the progressive men and women who are now efficiently promoting the interests
of public education in Arkansas. He holds to high ideals and employs the most
practical methods in their attainment, thus making the public schools a source
of great benefit in training the young for the responsible duties of life. Mr.
Baumgartner comes to Arkansas from Ohio, his birth having occurred at Bluffton,
in the northwestern part of the Buckeye state, in 1880, his parents being Christ
and Elizabeth (Welty) Baumgartner. The former is of Swiss parentage, while the
latter was born in Ohio and is a representative of a very old, prominent and
distinguished family in the northwestern part of that state, a family that has
furnished to the country several congressmen, including the present member of
congress from that district, who is a cousin to Mr. Baumgartner. The parents of
Mrs. Christ Baumgartner were Peter and Fannie (Bixel) Welty and like others of
the family they enjoyed the high respect and goodwill of all with whom they came
into contact.

    In the acquirement of his education, John Baumgartner attended the public
schools of his native town and also studied at Lima, Ohio, and in the Northern
Indiana University at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he won the Bachelor of Arts
degree. He likewise attended the University of Arkansas and the Chicago
University, from which he received his Master's degree, and his thorough and
comprehensive training have well qualified him for important work in the
educational field. All of the schools under his direction have made steady
progress, for his methods are efficient and resultant. He served for nine years
as superintendent of the schools at Brinkley, Arkansas, and satisfaction is
everywhere evinced in connection with what he has accomplished. Among the
improved features which are now in the school are courses in home economics,
vocational agriculture and banking, a school bank having been established. Mr.
Baumgartner also started a movement for a safe and sane Hallowe'en and takes the
school children on an organized hike on that day with games, races and other
means of entertainment, thus keeping them out of mischief. All of his work is
conducted along psychological principles and he believes that mind and hands
well occupied will solve many a problem of juvenile delinquency. He also made a
record on the sale of War Savings Stamps, receiving a special testimony from
United States Treasurer McAdoo for his work in this connection, acting as
chairman of the War Savings Stamps sales in the county. He was likewise chairman
of the Y. M. C. A. drive for three counties and he did much other effective work
in behalf of the country during the war period.

    Mr. Baumgartner was united in marriage to Miss Van Arsdell of Stuttgart,
Arkansas, who is also a teacher in the Brinkley high school. They attend summer
school each year, thus equipping themselves for better service and their labors
are indeed most efficacious in advancing the interests of the schools, in
promoting the standards of education here and in producing practical results.
They are studying broadly and thinking deeply along those lines which have to do
with public progress, and their influence is an immeasurable force for good and
for advancement among the young people who come under their instruction.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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