Bexley High School - Bexleo Yearbook (Bexley, OH)

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Russell E. K E S S L E R .B., M.A., LL.B. Principal Russell E. Kessler, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan, Ohio State, and Franklin Universities, has been the able principal of Rexley High School for over a score of years. He has seen the school develop into the smoothly functioning building of education that it is today. Mr. Kessler has incorporated many innovations in the school curricula and activities, with the goal of a perfect school day in mind. In his leisure moments, Mr. Kessler enjoys being in the out-of-doors, with hunting and fishing as his main interest. As this is the class of ’49, Mr. Kessler says, “A century ago the pioneers traveled to California where they found the people in revolu- tion, not of blood, but of gold. To go to a country where gold was as plentiful as dirt was the goal of many young people of that time. What is the future of high school youth today? In the discovery of atomic energy man has created a situation which may cause his destruc- tion or may bring about the building of a richer, better world. The greatest challenge to youth is offered in the control and direction of this energy toward the building of a new world in which there will be peace, productivity surpassing our fondest hopes, and ease of living beyond all our imagination. This generation may be the lucky one, or the last one.” Seven

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