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

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Board of Education CECIL E. DAY Director of the Hoard—Served since 1927 MRS. RUTH B. HUGHES Clerk of the Board—Served since 1921 LOUIS BLEGAN Treasurer of the Board Served since 1916 Education W hat has the depression done to our ideas of education? Has the inability of High School and College graduates to obtain positions during this time of stress caused us to wonder if education really pays ? Are we discouraged when we see thousands of college bred men and women either without jobs altogether or else working side by side, for low wages, at manual labor with those who have little or no education, and often find preference given to the latter be- cause perhaps they can display more brawn? It is .ine in theory to laud education and art for arts sake, especially in times of prosperity, but the children of the educated man must eat during depression years as well as the laboring man's child, and education must show a practical side as well as the cultural side. Is it doing so today? W ithiii the last year several million people have been absorbed back into industry. Who are they? Has the percentage of re-em- ployment of those with education been higher or lower than those without education? Investigation shows that those who, because of their high school or college education, are best able to produce capable and efficient work are the ones who are being taken into industry at this time. This means that education does pay because it trains both the mind and the body, and the man who has had this kind of training is the practical man who comes out on top, even in these uncertain times, and in this era of specialization. G. E. DAY

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Dedication In recognition of the many fine educa- tional advantages they have given us, and in appreciation of the splendid spirit in which they have so often sacrificed in order to make our education possible, we dedicate this hook to the Citizens of 1ludson.

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Greetings to the Class of 194 The class of 1934 is emerging from its first phase of forma! education at a very difficult time. Four long years of chaos have been completed in our economic and social structure. W e think we see a rav of light in the distance which fills us with new hope for the new day. ()ur paths have been winding and filled with obstacles. Many changes have taken p ace and perhaps many moie are to come. The young people emerging from this scene, however, are scheduled to play an important part in this new era. You may have felt, at times, that you were indeed being penalized in many ways unjustly. The privilege of living through and experiencing first hand the rapid social and economic changes and the knowledge that you may play an important role, if you will, in building and shaping the new day, should compensate you in a large measure for any privation or hardship that you have suffered mentally or physically. The civilization of any generation is as good or as bad as its people. Determine to play your part in the building for a better civilization . This you can do only by preparing adequately for the battle. Be ever alert and willing to learn and do your part. Select your goal or objective early and then work for it. Advice for a good and fruitful life may be stated briefly in these lines by Henrv Van Dvke— Pour things a man must learn to do If he would make his recorc true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow men sincerely; To act from honest motives purely: To trust in God and Heaven securely.” EDW ARD I'. ROCK