Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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.red. . 81 blac lmlmlllll R. J. CARTER H. L. ZEMER WILLIAM LEONARD D. D. SCHLATTER FLOYD KINNAMAN President Vice-President Secrelary board of education ...... URING the past few years much has been heard and read of the need of balancing public and school budgets. The necessity of this has been recognized by educators as well as by taxpayers, but there should be a limit to the curtailment of educational opportunity just as there was formerly a limit to the pyramiding and piling up of needless public expenditures. Our board of education does not believe that it is the desire of the citizens and taxpayers of this community and state to handicap our children of today and our citizens of tomorrow by withdrawing and withholding from them full opportunity for the training and development of mind, body and character, which are even more needed in times of economic disturbances and social problems, than in time of prosperity and contentment. Money spent for the education of our children cannot be considered as wasted or expended without a chance of yielding any return on the investment. But, unfortunately, due to the shouting and broadcasting of a comparative handful of tax reduction at any cost group, the entire system of public education, from the grade schools to the universities, is threatened by such ruthless and unwarranted cutting of income as to leave its black marks, if not stopped, upon the lives of those whom we expect to solve our problems of the future. Will our present youth be prepared to do the things we will expect of them in another generation if we, the citizens of today, deny them the opportunity for preparation? Are we overlooking the proper balancing of lives in favor of the balancing of budgets? Thanks to the unselfish co-operation and spirit of the entire school staff-executives, teachers and employees, we have been able to meet conditions as they exist and to operate the schools to date within its materially reduced income. True, it has been necessary to make some regrettable changes and eliminations but we believe that the citizens of Ohio and of Fostoria will rally to the support of the schools and enable its representatives to restore soon several of the valuable activities which are conducive to the best interests of our boys and girls. On behalf of the citizens whom we represent, we take this opportunity of congratulating the largest class in the history of our schools - the graduating class of 1934. It is our sincere hope that the lives you will live and the services you will render in whatever line of endeavor you pursue, will be to the credit of your school training, your teachers, your parents and yourselves. - R. J. CARTER IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII D 3 g B ..8