Edwardsville High School - Tiger Yearbook (Edwardsville, IL)

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,, ,,, W. W. KRUMSIEK Administration STUDENT ACTIVITIES We read and hear a great deal today about high school students getting the opportunity of participating in various activities in their school. Some schools go so far as to have students almost entirely regulate order and discipline offenses. ln those instances, punishment meted out has been more severe than otherwise. There remain, however, many other activities in which students can participate and find out whether they have , any talent. An increasing number are given opportunity this year. Students are in charge of selling tickets for athletic contests, plays, and operettas. They also sell candy during the noon intermission. Several girls plan, prepare, and administer the lunches served at noon with but little guidance from the home economics teacher. Older students have helped take charge of beginning band students to assist the directory others direct choruses and quartets: some officiate in boys' and girls' basketball games. This publication is planned and worked out almost entirely by students with some help and guidance by faculty members. Groups of girls in the Hi-Tri are led in discussion by one appointed by them. Principal This of course means that youth today has many more opportunities than it has ever had before. More interest is manifest on the part of adults today to create this chance, too. We read of instances where the mayor has turned over the city's administration to the Boy Scout organization or the chief of police has given the boys charge of handling the traffic, and they have generally done a good job. No doubt they may not do as well at times as adults, but it gives them a chance then to be criticised constructively and try to do better the next time. We learn best by doing even though it may be a bit expensive at times. However, the one characteristic that is in youth's favor and carries through when given a chance to execute assignments is enthusiasm. With a little guidance of that, much can be accomplished. And can we tell just how much a student has learned by selling tickets or parking cars at our games? Among other things he probably can interpret a great deal about our character by our attitude and what we say during a transaction. 'W' e probably don't have old heads on young shoulders now any more than we did twenty-five or more years ago, but the average student knows more about more things than he did at that time and, yes, knows it as well too- -certainly by experience! W. W. KRUMSIEK. Eight