Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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16 THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES problem presents itself It is Overcrowdzng Next to efficient in structors each student should have at least one place where he can study his lessons and hear the instructions of his teacher that is he should have an otlice which he can call his very own this 1S solved by giving him a desk and seat Under the present crowded conditions in our high school this seemingly simple requirement IS not met for there are more students than there are seats The school officials are trying thelr best to allevlate conditions Last year nineteen new seats were put in while this year nineteen seats have been added but there are still several pupils without desks The fault does not he with the school heads as they have done all they can in adding new desks so the power to act now rests with the people of Fort Madison Surely without exception our citizens w1sh Fort Madison to be the leading city of the power zone A start toward that position has already been made by the acquisition of several new come new high school students In the light of previously stated facts that the high school is at present overcrowded it is easily apparent that with the addition of these new students a building will be needed in a very short time Since it will be needed soon why not get busy now? The sooner the building is completed the sooner Fort Mad1son will be benefited by it Many times we have heard it said that we will get a new high school when we show that we need it This we have already done We also have shown ourselves deserving by the fact that new and varied courses of industrial work have been introduced and maintained Indeed the very fact that the enrollment jumped from two hundred and five last year to two hurdred and thirty four this year proves that the pupils have shown a very decided mterest 1n the Fort Madison High School and therefore deserve a reclprocation of interest on the part of Fort Madison citizens The rest of this book could be crowded with other arguments on our side of the question such as The need of a science laboratory it is detrimental to have both primary and high school pupils in the I . . . . , . 1 u H . . - . . I I ' I V factories. With factories come new families, and with new families ' V I ' . L . - . I 1 Z ' Q

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES made many acqualntances and frxends He has begun the organxzatxon ofa fine chorus and the school hopes he w1ll soon form a good orchestra and glee club LOUIS KOCH 17 IV'll1S1C We are very glad to have Professor Weeks w1th us thlS year The mterest rn smgmg 1S shown by the fact that practlcally every pupxl has gone to Professor Weeks to have hxs vo1ce tested and classltied Let us all co operate and work up the muslc 1D our school Other cxtxes of th1s sxze have large orchestras and glee clubs Why cant we? SARAH HAMIL TON I6 A Banner Year After three short months of vacatlon we are agaln back at our desks Some of us spent the tune xn makmg trxps others at hard more returned to our lessons why should not all of us work toward reusing the standards and honor of th1s school? By study and appllca txon we could do thrs very eas1ly Wrth a un1ted and enthusxastlc student body of over two hundred young people we should be able to make the season of 1915 16 a banner year 1n football basket ball track work forensxc work and general scholarshzp We should make It a BANNER YEAR 1n everythlng W1ll you not do your part? JOSEPH R THOMAS 16 A New I-hgh School Agam thru the ed1tor1al page of the T1mes the hmgh school students w1ll attempt to convmce the taxpayers that Fort Madrson needs a new h1gh school bu1ld1ng A real and not an xmaglnary 15 labor QI, and others spent it at home. But now, that we have once

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THE HIGH SCHOOL PIMES same bu1ld1ng the need of a gymnasnum of some kmd the fact that other towns are buxldmg Hne new lngh schools for mstance Burlmg tons new one hundred and fifty thousand dollar bu1ld1ng The purpose of th1s art1c1e II hope I have stated It faxrly IS to enllghten the people of Fort Mad1son as to the present crowded condxtlon and the crymg needs of the future Here s to a NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING' JOSEPHR THOMAS 16 ' 17 1 1 f - yu .