School: Granton - New Principal (Fischer - 1975)
Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail:
dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Fischer, Erpenbach, Larson
----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 7/31/1975
Granton New Principal (Fischer - 1975)
Granton’s new principal Walter B. Fischer comes highly qualified.
Fischer, 32, an experienced Kindergarten through 12 administrator, has
served as principal for three years at New Auburn and for two years at Big
Fork, Minnesota.
Raised on a farm near Butternut, Fischer is the son of the famous wrestler
Charles “Midge” Fischer. Midget Fischer was the world middle and light-heavy
weight wrestling champion from 1929-until his retirement in 1938.
The new staff man graduated from the high school at Butternut and enrolled
at the University of Wisconsin-Superior where he obtained both his bachelors
and masters degrees. He took post-graduate studies at the university of
Minnesota-Duluth, at Bemidji State, UW-Superior, and the university of South
Dakota-Vermillion. He is presently near completion of a specialist degree
from UW-Superior.
For five years he taught at Duluth and served as guidance-counselor for a
year before assuming his first principalship at Bigfork.
Walter earned his way through college by working as a stock clerk in a
Chicago factory and serving as student manager at the university student
center at Superior. He nevertheless found time to be a member of the ROTC
drum and bugle corps, and the Superior State wrestling team. He was also
involved in campus politics and was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity.
Fischer is a member of the Wisconsin Secondary School Administrators
Association and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He
represents the Northwestern Wisconsin Principals on the WSSAA’s government
relations committee. He is also a member of the CESA No. 6 Principals; the
CESA No.6 Elementary Supervisors, the Lakeland Principals Association and
the Heart O’ North School Masters Association.
Walter met his wife, Corey, on the Superior campus where she received her
master’s degree in guidance and counseling. The Fischers live in Granton and
have three children, Scott, eight; Angela, Six; and Matthew, almost three.
Superintendent Erpenbach stated, “I feel we are very fortunate to obtain a
principal with the professional education and experience of Mr. Fischer. I
am sure he will have a lot to contribute to the Granton educational
program.”
Fischer replaced Dale Larson who assumed an administrative position with the
Algoma School System.
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