Austin High School - Austinian Yearbook (Austin, MN)

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PRINCIPAL L. J. GUSTAFSON QLLI2 PRINCIPAL SLIPERVISIES AND GUIDES LIS L. J. GUSTAFSON WE are all associated in a common task, that of preparing ourselves to live adequate lives as citizens and Workers in society. As We pass through the public school system, We take from it just as much as We are Willing to absorb. In return We leave a part of our own personalities behind. The character of a high school is a composite of its indi- vidual members. Fortunate indeed is that school which counts among its students and teachers a larger proportion of We- thinkers than I-thinkers. As you peruse the pages of this beautiful Austinian of 1939, what are your reactions? Do you experience a thrill that this book represents Our School, that it is packed with memories of the Worthwhile things we contributed to the growth of the institution, and that it is an account of the many projects in which We all cooperated? On theI other hand, is our only thrill in seeing pictures of ourselves and our friends and in glorying in the first person singular? The I-feeling results in a lifeless photograph album While the We-feeling creates a beau- tiful living memento of high school days. -L. J. GUSTAFSON, Principal

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E Q I I E SUPTERINTENDENT S. T. NEVELN THE choice of the theme 'fWe for the 1939 Aus- tinian yearbook is fortunate and timely. The world today is pretty sharply divided between two opposing philosophies, as exemplified by the democratic countries and the totalitarian governments. The totalitarians are autocratic, dictatorial, loud, unscrupulous. The We philosophy is the democratic way of life, the first person plural. It furnishes unlimited op- portunity for cooperation, working out difficult prob- lems together, and helping each other, lending the help- ing hand, especially to the weaker or less favored. It gives play for ambition, eagerness, initiative, experi- mentation, resourcefulness. The We may develop self-reliance, dependability, honesty, liberty, and satis- faction, and the individual grows strong in both fol- lowership and leadership. This romance and excitement of the democratic procedure brings achievement and success, in a society that is free and practical, spiritual and idealistic. The Austinian staff is to be commended and con- gratulated upon the selection of so significant a theme. I S. T. NEVELN, Superintendent OUR SUPEIQINTEN DENT AND ADMINISTRATOR I-IEADS AUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 13

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OUR TEACHERS ARE OUR GUIDES AND LEADERS VIRST Row-MARVIN C. KNUDSON, Assistant Principal: H. RACHEL ANDERSON, English: GENEVIEVE ARNOLD, Speech Correction: MARJORIE J, BELL, History: CHARLES H. BENNETT. Football Coach, Di- rector of Boys' Physical Education. SECQND RowAIRENE A. BENTLEY. English: BLANCHE BLACK. Mathef matics: HELEN L. BODDY, English: EARL C. BROOKS. Commercial: BEULAH BUSXNELL, Social Science, Mathematics. THIRD ROW4JOHN A. BUTORAC, Science, Assistant l7ootball Coach: GLADYS M. CHALBERG, Assistant School Nurse: ELIZABETH CHRISTOPHERSON, Home Economics, VUILLA CHURCH, English: MARY S. COTTER. Mathematics, S we glance backward on the year's activi- ties, we ind our teachers busily engaged not only in regular class room activity but also in extra curricular activity. They have been alert to bring what has been best and most needed practically and culturally to each learn- ing situation. They have also occupied import- ant positions in community, professional, and service clubs, in religious activity, in local civic welfare movements, and social life. During the school year our teachers have met together frequently for discussion of com- mon problems at faculty meetings and aftera noon teas. The members on the Teachers' So- cial Affairs Committee were: Mrs. Blanche Black, chairman, Miss Lura Lynn Straub, L. A. Cioick. On September 29, the first tea of the year was given, the September Tea. Mrs. Black was at the head of this Hrst social gather- ing. Miss Margaret Wood was in charge of the October tea. At the homecoming assembly on October 7, a hilarious, old fashioned melodrama with the villain pursuing the heroine and threatening to have her committed to an asylum unless she re- nounced the manly hero, was gallantly pro- duced and presented by a group of teachers. The play was called, 'ABertha, the Sewing Ma- chine Ciirlf' All the womens parts were taken by men, and the men's parts, by the women, The pep assembly was also led by the teachers -the way yells were led years ago, On October 14 several of the faculty made a trip to Vifaterloo, Iowa, for the purpose of observing the homeroom plan and organiza- tion in the high school of that city. 15