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By Courtesy of Columbia Public Schools  ¦   Battle High school is set to open June 3 for summer school.

By Courtesy of Columbia Public Schools  ¦   Battle High School sits on 85 acres in north Columbia.

By Courtesy of Columbia Public Schools  ¦   Battle High School will open for its inaugural school year in August.

By Courtesy of Columbia Public Schools  ¦   Battle High School will open for summer school in June.

By Courtesy of Columbia Public Schools  ¦   Battle High School was named for Muriel Battle.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Muriel and Eliot Battle served in Columbia Public Schools for more than 30 years.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Muriel and Eliot Battle are shown in this Missourian file photo from Feb. 22, 1976.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Muriel Battle, principal of West Junior High School, eats with a student on May 31, 1979. Muriel Battle shared her lunch hour with students in an effort to keep in touch with what they were thinking.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Muriel Battle worked at Jefferson Junior High School for more than 30 years. This picture was taken outside of the school on July 29, 1979.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Muriel Battle, vice principal of West Junior High, advises a student not to talk back to his teacher Feb. 22, 1976.

By Missourian file photo  ¦   Eliot Battle, shown in this 1992 file photo, was a guidance counselor at Hickman High School. He served in Columbia Public Schools for more than 30 years.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   Prosthetic feet and their rubber covers sit in a windowsill at Mid-Mo Orthotics and Prosthetics. Owner Tracy Ell has been creating artificial limbs for patients for 20 years.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   Tracy Ell tests the grip strength of a prosthetic arm in the workshop at Mid-Mo Orthotics and Prosthetics. A patient had brought the arm in for adjustments.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   The rubber cover to a prosthetic hand sits on a workbench next to the bioelectric sensors which convert muscle contractions into electric signals that activate the motors and actuators in the hand.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   David Bright, left, and Todd Lee stretch a plastic sheet over a plaster mold of a patient's residual limb in the Mid-Mo Orthotics and Prosthetics workshop. The above-the-knee socket is initially molded from clear plastic so technicians can see how it fits a patient before the final form is created from carbon fiber.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   Todd Lee, right, checks Drew Dotzler's face for a reaction as he fits a prosthetic leg. Dotzler had his left leg removed below the knee when he was a child and is helping to create his own prosthetic leg before leaving Columbia to study prosthetics in Chicago.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   A space-age carbon fiber leg with a computerized knee stands next to a replica of a 15th-century prosthetic hand at Mid-Mo Orthotics and Prosthetics.

By Greg Kendall-Ball  ¦   Tracy Ell, left, checks the knee joint on Drew Dotzler's prosthetic leg as Todd Lee helps fit it on May 9 at Mid-Mo Orthotics and Prosthetics.

By Sam Gause  ¦   Gale Fuller shows off his pin that identifies him as a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. Fuller joined the Humanist Association in the mid-1980s and now performs nonreligious weddings, memorial services and naming ceremonies.

By Sam Gause  ¦   Gale Fuller displays the clothes he wears as a secular Humanist minister. Fuller has identified as non-religious since he was a child.