Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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Faculty Board of Education E. S. Slusher—President Delmar Jewison Arthur Fleshman Harold Sullivan Truston Stewart Will Lady Wm. C. McGraw J. Otha Toland Neal Chandler

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Macomb High School

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To the Students of Macomb High: There never has been a time in the history of the world when education has counted so greatly as during the present war emergency. Never has so much been done in such a short length of time. Whether others like to admit it or not, the ability to accomplish what we have, has been due largely to our educational system. We have taught technical skills which have been applied throughout the industrial world. We have also taught ideals that are worth fighting for, and the greatest of these is freedom. Freedom is the driving power of soldiers and civilians alike. Freedom in a society of individuals must to a certain extent be tempered through self discipline. You must learn to discipline yourself for the benefit of yourself as well as society. The extent to which you are able to curb your personal freedom in favor of the welfare of society is in a large measure the extent to which you are an educated individual. Learn to measure your life by the happiness you bring into the lives of other people. Be willing to sacrifice for the welfare of others. Selfishness is the greatest enemy of humankind. If we are to have a lasting peace after this war, it will have to be founded on freedom through self-discipline. P. F. SHAFER. Miss Minnie Black, the very efficient secretary of Mr. Shafer, graduated from Macomb High School and attended Meyers Business College one year. Then she attended Bryant-Stratton Business College in Chicago and later did further work at Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois. She has traveled widely in the United States and hopes sometime to go abroad. Today more than ever before our country is looking to its high schools. You, as high school students, must realize that your school is doing its part to help you serve your country and yourselves. It is giving you the tools with which to go out to face life. It is endeavoring to equip you to live not only in a world at war, but also in the world of peace which will follow. In future years you will perhaps appreciate to a greater extent the significance of your high school life. You will realize that the skills you have acquired and the attitudes you have built up all do their part toward making you a useful and worthwhile citizen. Your participation in the life of the school will prove to be an excellent training for your participation in the life of the community. The development of your school spirit may well indicate the development of a feeling of loyalty toward your fellow men when your high school days are over. When you leave school you take these things with you. You leave behind memories which are added to those left by others who have gone before you into the world's work. MR. ALFRED C. DRUMMOND. Piii e x