Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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H TRUE BLUE GREATER OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL Our new High School certainly has brought us great opportu- nities. There are many advantages that we enjoy which were de- nied to us before by the handicaps in the old building. The most important of these advantages are good ventilation, lighting and heating systems, which make it much easier for the students to do good work while in school A domestic science department, which has been the desire of all the girls of Hudson High for many years, has finally been se- cured and each girl has her own gas plate, working table and is able to leam the actual cost of food and has to plan and serve meals which are both appetizing and economical; while the boys in the manual training department are given an opportunity for training and learning to use both their hands and their brains. Of course to a great many students the new athletic oppor- tunities seem the most important. Physical health is the basis of all efficient wort and now we have facilities and conveniences for sports and gymnastics such as we never had belore. The girls as well as the boys are thus encouraged to come out for ath- letics and a much greater interest in school activities is fostered. But we must not forget the social side of school life, which is fully as important as the rest. Our new auditorium furnishes a great inducement for local talent and entertainments and the gym- nasium affords that which has always been lacking in our school life, an opportunity for the students and faculty to join together and co-operate in the parties and entertainments which tend to develop a better school spirit and a better understanding between teacher and pupil. THE SCHOOL NURSE. Hudson has gradually been waking up to the needs of her future citizens. She has realized at last that if she is to make any progress she must begin at the foundation and the foundation of a city is its children. Well educated children make good cit- izens, who in their turn establish good government for the city and nation. But in order to be mentally fit for the tasks set before him, the child must also be physically fit. In the past many diseases have been spread through the town by school children carrving some dangerous germs of which the parents and the teachers were ignorant. Great harm has arisen because of the fact that, though the responsible nersons would not willingly endanger others, the pupils of the Hudson schools were exposed to illness be- cause of the indifference of the authorities in taking the proper precautions to protect them.

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TRUE BLUE VOLUME 18—Number 1 Christmas Number. Editorial Staff Editor in Chief, Stanley Beggs Assistant Editor, Nehie Palmer Li brary Editor, Constance Blegan Alamni Editor, Esther Erickson Exchange Editor, Katherine Scanlon Athletic Editor, Charles Jensch Joke Editor, Isabelle Van Meter School News Editors—Mary Rusch, Ragna Olson Artists—Agnes Nordby, Katherine Arnquist Business Manager, Loren Larson. Assistant Business Manager, William Banks. 2nd Assistant Business Manager, Sigred Johnson. Circulation Manager, Thomas Garritv. Facult.v Advisors— Miss Smith, Miss Reed, Miss Sellen.

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TRI E BLUE 9 In larger cities nurses have been placed in the schools to watch the health of the pupils, not only to guard against the contagious diseases, but also to see that physical defects such as nearsightedness, adenoids, deafness, etc., are adjusted. The child subject to any of these defects pulls down the standard of his whole class in that the other pupils are forced to adjust their progress to his. The child who is physically handi- capped cannot make much mental progress. If the class advances in a normal manner, the defective child is dragged along in his studies, not properly understanding his lessons, and therefore deriving no benefit from them. In later life, because of his un- developed mental powers, he becomes a burden to the community. The people of the city cannot seem to realize that a comparatively small sum of money expended at the right time would save them large sums in later life. It would be more profitable for the city to prevent a person from being a drag on the community rather than to support that person after he is hopelessly unable to care for himself. In a small town, the necessity for a nurse is often overlooked, but, nevertheless, the need is as great if not greater in such a place. The authorities are now considering such a nurse for Hudson schools. We appeal to them to make no hasty decision on such an important problem of the day and hope Hudson will be one of the privileged utLs v.hicli will be able to boast its progress in all things pertaining to the welfare of its citizens. THE AUDITORIUM PERIOD. The High school is to have the privilege of a period averaging twenty minutes each day in its new auditorium, probably begin- ning in January. We have greatly missed the good old days of the Main room in the old building and everyone has been anxiously waiting to learn what plans have been made for the use of our new entertainment room. We have all missed the get-together spirit that existed in the Fridav choruses of former times. Last year the school spirit had practically died out because of the fact that the upper classmen had difficulty in becoming acquainted with the lower classmen. This year things are much changed and many suggestions have been made to bring the pupils together in a clan spirit. The faculty, with the help of the student cabinet, has successfully carried out many of its plans but plans for the new periods in the auditorium are not fully developed. In what way can this period be used to the best advantage? We want many suggestions for the solving of this problem. Some which have already been made are helpful and interesting. The school would rather have the preliminaries for the declamatory