Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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lVIARlON C. DIETRICH Superintendent of Scliools llflarion C. Dietrich, for five years principal of Billings high school and for three years superintendent of the city schools has taken the most active interest in Billings high school and its students, especially the graduating classes. By his unfailing advice and his keen interest in the activities and athletics of the school, llfir. Dietrich has become one of the most popu- lar and best loved men ever connected with Billings high school. The class of '27, being the last graduating class of Billings high school ever to have been under the direct supervision of hir. Dietrich, leaves with a warm feeling of admiration for the man who has done so much to influence the school life in not only B. H. S. but in the city of Billings as well. 26

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Scorr ELTING lvloiuus DURLAND SCHOOL BOARD The Billings school board is composed of Billings men and women who are interested in the city schools. The board consists of six trustees and one clerk, the trustees being elected for three year terms by the Billings voters. Due to the fact that the pictures for the annual were sent to the engravers at a very early date we were unable to include the picture of Mrs. A. M. Dailey who was elected this spring to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Mrs. Scott. The members of the present school board are: Mr. E. C. Smith, Mr. C. E. Durland, Mr. R. L. Morris, Mr. G. VV. Raish. Mrs. A. M. Dailey and Mr. C. S. Bell. Q BELL CLINE SMITH RAISH 0 1 Y! I, f.

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W Message Another school year is over. I wonder how many of you have reached the objective you set out to attain. Qbjective, you say. XVhat is meant by objective ? That is just the point. How many of you ever have a definite idea of what it is you are trying to do as you put in these four years in high school? How many set a goal for a day, a week, a month or a year and then examine the record to see whether or not that goal has been reached? For most of us four credits a year is the objective. lVhat credits are and what they will be used for makes little difference. lVe go to school because it is the traditional thing to do and because the neighbors would wonder if we didn't. The two great reasons for not failing are the shame it brings upon us and the delay occasioned by the necessary repetition of the subject. How many high school pupils ever stop to consider that their education is a process of growth, that each lesson is given for a definite purpose, a purpose upon which they may capitalize in the future? lf we would bear in mind that every class exercise is given to help us in later lifeg that each bit of knowledge, ineonsequental as it may seem at the moment, is a step up in our preparation, then our whole attitude might change. VVe would cease to study just to passg to gain creditg to graduate, and would begin to study to grow, to be able to take our place in the world when the opportunity comes. YVe are all interested in the brilliant student but development is just as valuable as brilliance. What pleasure it is to see one who has had to struggle, gain the objective for which he has worked so hard. So, freshmen, sophomores, juniors and you seniors who are soon to carry on outside the jurisdiction of Billings high school, try to keep before you the fact that the work of every day has a meaningg that your school tasks are for definite preparation and that growth depends upon them, and that above all you must have a goal or ob- jective else all is lost no matter how hard you work, for speed without direction is of no avail. M. C. DIETRICH, Srzpwirztezzdmit of Schools 27