East High School - Trojan Yearbook (Waterloo, IA)

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MR LOGAN HEN WE SAY we are celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the American High School, We do not mean thatwe have had such high schools as we have today for three hundred years. That period is the time in which our high schools have been developing. Schools comparable to our present high schools have existed less than nfty years. At no previous time in history and in no other country in the world could all boys and girls attend a free public high school and take the variety of courses they can in the United States. Our manner of living has changed much in that three hundred years. lf our schools are to serve each generation adequately, they too, must change. The conditions under which we live have been changing so rapidly for the past fifty years that .the schools have hardly kept pace. The school which you are attending is very different from the school which your parents attended, and the school which your children will attend will be different from this school. Yet the schools of these three generations will be less dif- ferent than the conditions of life under which these three generations will have lived. lf the schools of the future keep pace with life, it will be because you, as citizens of the future, recognize the necessity of a continually developing public high school.

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BOAQD OI3 EDUCATION Ii. G. C1RowTm1R I II. P. IIWSEN .l, I.. .X. PRILBE Ii. jormxx CIIAS, S. Mclims' C. NI. SllIzRRIl,L MR 5. G. IX. 4IAIBBI'I I'S OFFICERS OF TI-IE BOARD Ii. G. c:I'UWIII1Cl', Prcsidcnl If. II. Wyzllml, ,IAI'CZlSLlI'CI' Chas. N. Ilosteller. Secretary' Incl E HE ORANGE sl BLA 4 M. I.og11n, SI.lPL'IAIl1Il.'lR CK-1935 IXIII IRX

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M12 MILLER HAT PROGRESS has been made in East 1-ligh since you have been here?'l asked the inquiring reporter. lf increase in attendance is progress, then we have made marvelous progress. Will you be- lieve that in 1913-1-1 the enrollment in what is now known as senior high school-10th, llth, and 12th grade, was 171 as compared with SOO at this time? This increase is much greater than the proportionate increase in the population ot' the city. ln keeping with the increase in enrollment has come more variation in abilities and interests of the students. To keep pace with this variation East High School has enriched its offerings, and we have many more elective subjects than we had in 1913. We have not been the first to take up the new nor the last to drop the old, but we have always been on the alert to take up that which makes for consistent progress. Our greatest progress has probably been made in what used to be called the extracurricular activities-physical edu- cation, dramatics and music. Physical education is in charge of specialists and not as a side line. The sports activity pro- gram has been greatly enlarged. Dramatics have come to have a meaningful Hcarry over rather than something for the moment's entertainment. ln music has come our great- est progress. We now have orchestra, band, chorus and glee club groups that were undreamed of in schools which in 1013 were many times the size of our school now. Yes, we have progressed. Perhaps it does not seem so evident to you, but if by some magic you could be trans- ported back to 1913, we think you might be somewhat startled.