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Edward Hinterberg

Principal

Watertown Senior High School

1958

01 05 Edward Hinterberg, principal of the Watertown Senior High School, plans to retire at the end of the current school year, when he reaches retirement status. Mr. Hinterberg, who holds a Ph.D. and Ph.M. from the University of Wisconsin has been in Watertown for 34 years and will complete one of the longest terms on record as a high school principal. He came to Watertown from Highland, Iowa County, where he had been a teacher for three years before accepting the Watertown post. His first teaching position in 1916 was at a graded school at Maquah, Wis., where he was also principal. WDT

Eugene Tornow

1958

07 01 Eugene Tornow, the new principal of the Watertown High School, began his duties yesterday in accordance with his contract which the Board of Education voted him some time ago. He succeeds Edward Hinterberg whose retirement went into effect yesterday. Mr. Hinterberg is now a member of the City Council and has stepped completely out of the school picture in Watertown after serving 35 years as high school principal. Mr. Tornow and his family will make their home in a residence in Willow Street. There are two sons in the Tornow family. Mr. Tornow, who is 39, is a native of Milwaukee and until he accepted the Watertown position was supervising principal of the Reeseville-Lowell High School. WDT