Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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PRINCIPAL S B SULLIVAN Our gerucxl and undelstcmdlng leader To hlm We turn for gu1dc:1nce for l1'1Sp1I'QI1OH Moy Semors long remember h1s words and may those who grcmducxte 111 yeciri to follow hsten Well to hls counsel THE RED BIRD 1937 8 , . 1 1

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OTIS R A G L LEO ARLIE STONE SWOFI-'ORD LIMERICK MQCDONALD MURPHY President Secretary mzmfttatlon It IS Wlth great prlde that we pre sent our Board of Educatron These mer deserve the hlghest commen the cause of youth No c1t1zer1 can asp1re to a loftler callmg than that wh1ch QIVGS freely of ms tlme and talent m furthermg the educatxorm of future generahons ' in 49 I dation for their urtselfish service irt THE RED BIRD 19

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0 t 'Lcufty No school can be better than tts faculty No matter how flne the physl cal eau1pment or how wealthy the cornmun1ty or how hrghly pa1d tts teach ers a school rn any commun1ty wrll be only med1ocre unless 1t possesses a splendld staff of teachers The successful teacher rn addrtton to bemg Well tratned IH her teachmg reid must be suffrcrently Well mformed rn the other frelds so as to have a broad understandmg of the school as a whole and a keen apprec1at1on o students problems She must be genurnely sympathe tlc mth the problems of youth rn general so that she wrll be lc as a real frrend and helper by all students who come rn contat The super1or schools are those schools wh1ch are fortunate rn hc ers of such aualrty IH abundance The F C H S staff consrsts of thrrty full ttme teachers on teacher two study hall keepers one l1brar1an one secretary tv ance men and the prrncrpal Srxteen of the full trme teachers ar fourteen are womert Smce the enrollment rn our htgh school IS 1200 the number of teachers for such an enrollment 1 exceed Most schools o the State wrth an enrollment as large a ours orty to forty uve teachers on therr regular staff and some even means tnat each teacher IS regu1rea to do about one th1rd aga1n as much work as she should be reau1red to do Thrs unusual load makes rt rmpossrble for our teachers to do many o the thrngs Ln the way of extra class acttvr tres fvhrch they should ltke to do The average tendre of the teacher rn our htgh school ts 76 years Ntne have taught tn thls system ten or more years Nme have taught less than frve years E ght of the men teachers and four of the women teachers hold Master Degrees A number of other teachers are well on thelr way toward thelr Master Degrees The amount of preparatton and the amount of ex DGTIDHCS of F C H S teache s constrtute a sutfrcrently hrgh standard to meet the most rrgrd reau1ren ents The school rs fully recogmzed by the State De partment and the State Umverslty and fully accredrted wrth the North Cen tral Assoc1at1on Pvery teacher on our staff IS teach1ng every perrod 1n the chool day wrth the excertron of two athletrc coaches who have one free p rrod each ln addr t on to tn s teachmg load most o tfte teachers are responsrole for the drrectlon of some extra c lrrrcular actrvrty lf State funds become ctvarlable o as to make possrble tl e l rtng of more teachers 1t rs hoped that me may be able to GSSIQP two teachers to tl e posrtrons of dean of boys and dean of grrls The secretary and the llbrar an have been mth the syste 1 nvne and ten ,fears respectlvelv and the mamtenance rre have been '1 th school more than ten years The prrrc pal IS servrng hls srxtft year Our greatest rteed so fdr as teachers are concerned IS sufflcrent revenue to hrre more teachers to our staf and o thcrease the salarres of our present teachers to a wage commensurate mth the work they do THE RED BIRD 1937 3 AX , . , . - - - - 11 Y L s., . 'L 1 - - -- ' 1 . .s 3 WC -1. . , ' , ., . . ' s , A . ' a .. . r . ., 4 1 . ' - 7 s , r e . - . , F ft ' .-1 . ,. c . s A 111 f , . ' . .. V 'I '- . 1 ' ,, rr . . . , , r , . A x .n .1. e.. . .i!.n. .., .. .l,. L , , , . .. . , l, 4. . . t ,n . . , Y ,