Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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OMII2 ana! gcgoof N. C. t.t'ft'I.liR, PAUL GOOD. ARTHUR DOBSON, VV. A. ROBBINS. J. G. LUDLAIVI. MRS. EVERIQTI' ANGLE. I . N. GRHCC, C'l.ARIiNCE SVVANSON Bt. C. LEFLER O. tt. BIMSON Ecfuaafofz Uaxfzayau uigooic larninu means more than some lcids and a teacher. The teacher must he Hiarnedu herself. and then, in order to devote her whotehearted attene tion to helping her young initiates. she must have someone to talce care ol such essentials as paying the hills and getting the place swept and tidied. The someones must lend oil haggling people-wittv ideas, litter and improve new and old plans, and discourage the always near woii. Hereis where some- thing specialis needed, some governing hody oi people that are ahout hail taxpayer and half edu- cator. inspired city fathers ot some unrememhered community liigured out the prohtem oi school system administration a long time past when they invented til? Sl'iI00l llllilrfi, ilf'l C FOIYIDOSPCI oi six lAinC0iIl TIHKIS, mothers. and husinessmen. They lceep their collec- tive eyes. ears. and minds on the woric oi icec-ping city Hhooli larninii on the perennial move, changing the outmoded. and watching the educational ticlcer tape. Yet these too have need of advice to achieve greatest eiticiency. Hchiei Coordinators and Horizon Looicers- Cbveru might well tell oi the positions held hy ixfiiilard C. Leiter and fl H. Bimson, lor they must not only lceep the steam up in the hoilers. hut they must lceep the hoiler in repair and put in a new type, ii the new type is hetter and not too costly. To hir. Leiter, superintendent. comes the responsibility oi the unit as a whole. Cjiliiciatly called the assistant. Wir. Bimson maices secondary schools such as Line coin high his special interest. spending the whole oi last year in nation wide travel-study. a year oi ohservance of other schools and methods. At this instant plans for curricular revision and further student participation in government are he-ing forma utated from suggestions he has made, through co- operation with hoth sudents and iaculty.

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'rom 75558 ggczff 37110291 Xvhen the first white commercializers crossed the prairies to these salt springs. O street could not even hoast ot having been a Cow path, as Wall street can. The site was shunned somewhat, so his- tory telis us, as salt Hats were the redslcin equivalent ot no manis land, and any copper colored gent seen on other business than salt gathering was iiahie to he plagued hy liint poisoning. After the salt wells were tound to he merely an indifferent supply of slightly hriny water and the ticlcie easterners had pushed on tor uthem thar hillsi' and points west, a hand ot hut thirty persons ot mainly agricultural means was lelt. These were'-history again-a rather disgruntled lot anyway, just lilce Los Angeles citizens it Hollywood were suddenly depopuiated. This then was Lincoln in I-867, when an enthusiastic state assemhiy made it the capital. Vvhen those eastern commerciaiizers lett town. the Lincoln ot' today, an educational center with smolceless and noiselree sides was horn. We hecame the capital city, the university City, a small new metropolis of unindustrialized learning. How actually does Lincoln high matte itself a part of Lincoln? Students through school coopera- tion worlc part-time in various local enterprises. Police come to the school to safety-educate, to reg- ister hicycies. to explain regulations. Students regu- larly show hest wort: and methods ot achieving it at open house, when parents and patrons see how things are coming. Lincoln has grown trees instead of smoice staclcs, school hells in place of live o'cloclc whistles. Thus today is heing prepared tomorrowis Wir. Smith and ixiiss Jones, perhaps a President Smith'-even Spring- lield was surprised. lxiodern prohlems students ahsorh inliormatinn on law-matting lWl'0lll the ivxlrony ol' ilu- unirumernl rhamher, The town's ll0lllf'S lend travel treasures to illustrate a sclmul hooli. Police license students' hiryrles in school shops. Rohcrt ixietcall, rlis- trihutive trmlvs student, gains cxpcriciiu' at Bryan lxlcmorinl hospital. OOU72 CLEC! gcgoof