Bio: Haas, Edward W. – Colby H.S. Principal (1973)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Haas, Schwartz

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 15 Mar 1973

Edward W. Haas, currently serving as assistant principal, has been named principal of The Colby Junior-Senior High School for the 1973-74 school year. He succeeds R. Reeves Schwartz, who will retire at the end of the current school year.

Haas, a native of Rib Lake, is completing his tenth year in the Colby School System, the last six of which have been in the position of assistant principal.

He is a graduate of Taylor County Teacher’s College and received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire in 1961. He was awarded his Master’s degree in school administration in 1966 from Northern Colorado University in Greeley, Colorado. Haas has subsequently taken additional course work at Winona State College in Winona, Minnesota.

His teaching career stated in Hawkins, Wisconsin, and then in Bloomer, prior to coming to Colby.

The newly named principal and his wife and two sons, Michael and Brian, reside at Route 1, Abbotsford.