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Show Vice Principal Abandons Post At South Friday Miss Winifred Dyer announced early this afternoon her intention in-tention to resign from the post of assistant principal at South high "school so that she might be free to accept a government position "for the duration" as director of personnel for the Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, Calif. The announcement came as a In reference to the news of her resignation Miss Dyer emphatically emphatical-ly declared, "I hope it will not be received with too great relief by the student body as I really would like to be missed." Governed Since 1931 Since the opening of South in 1931, Miss Dyer has been assistant principal, governing with a "soft heart, but firm hand." Prior to that time, she instructed classes in English and Civics at East high school. (Continued on page three) complete surprise to everyone. Even close friends of Miss Dyer were unaware of her intention to accept such a position. Since Jan-uay Jan-uay 3, Miss Dyer has been in contact con-tact with defense officials in Washington, D. C, and San Diego, but no mention of this was made until today when a telegram sent to her office here at South affirmed af-firmed the telephone conversations of the last 3 months and O. K.'d the public announcement of her resignation. Leaves Friday by Plane Orders from Washington directed direct-ed Miss Dyer to leave Salt Lake for San Francisco April 3. She has made arrangements to plane to the coastal city and will leave Friday evening from the municipal airport, thereby arriving in time to settle personal matters before meeting with her new employers. She has been assigned to duty as director of the Consolidated Aircraft Air-craft department of personnel. In this key position her major job will be to "hire and fire" employees employ-ees of the vital defense plant. Confers With Experts During the Christmas vacation Miss Dyer conferred with defense experts in California and at that time was subjected to a number of mental tests relating to this new position. At that time she attended a defense de-fense meeting where she acted as guest speaker, discussing the factor fac-tor of healthful employees in relation rela-tion to war production speed. DYER RESIGNS (Continued from page 1) Having successfully completed nearly 11 years at South, Miss Dyer plans to remain here for many years to come, so that she may "wise up" gullible Cubs who believe stories such as this .... April Fool! (Now you try to fool somebody.) |