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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