Sapulpa High School - Sapulphan Yearbook (Sapulpa, OK)

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A threat Investment THE citizens of Sapulpa are fortunate in having both Highway 66, “The Main Street of America” and Highway 75, “The International Route” going through their city. In addition to these there are many other graveled and hard surfaced roads that extend in all directions and furnish adequate transportation for travelers from all parts of the United States. Sapulpans are proud of their many paved streets, their Carnegie Library, the new Post Office, the efficient police department, the excellent fire department, the city hospital, the active Chamber of Commerce, the glass industry which has made Sapulpa famous the world over, and the splendid park system. They look with pride upon the many beautiful churches. These are assets of which the citizens justly feel proud, but Sapulpa’s million dollar investment, is her public school system. Every citizen holds shares in this great public utility. Why has this community been willing to invest so much in her public school system? The answer is “that her sons and daughters may receive an education. But what is education that so much money should be spent for it? We are told that education is :he process of learning to live. The high rank which Sapulpa’s public school system has held for many years did not happen by chance. It is the result of years of careful planning by men and women who have learned to live. These men and women have mirrored their personalities, achievements, glor- ies, and lives upon the escutcheon of Sapulpa High School. Students have been told that the principal objective of education should be to get the other person’s point of view; that it is fairly important and rather desirable to acquire some understanding of mathematics, grammar, history, geography and English, to be able to speak a foreign language or two. However, it is far more important to be able to enter into thoughts of other people anti to be able to look at life from their viewpoint. “ The most ignorant people on earth are those who believe they have a monopoly of wisdom, who despise those who differ with them, and who, if they dare, persecute those who do not see eye to eye with them.” Some people say that the object of Sapulpa’s greatest investment is to train youth to succeed. Victory for hoys and girls over the odds of life is perhaps one great objective of education. But what do people mean when they talk about “Success” ? One modern thinker and writer has said: “Wealth, notoriety, place, and power are no measure of success whatever. The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been, on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the thing we have made of ourselves, on the other.” Does this investment pay the proper dividends? The majority of investmors reply that the most satisfactory investment in the world is the education of its youth. Page 7 (S'-