Van Wert High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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Your High School iD you ever stop to think that the United States is your nation, that Ohio is your state, Van VVert your city and that this High School is your High School? Our nation. state and city are what the citizens make them and our High School is what you make it. The success of the school and of every individual in it, depends upon your support. Have you done your part this year to better the ,High School? Have you tried to build up the spirit of the school? What constitutes real school spirit? This, the support of every individual in every school activity and the taking of an active part in at least one of them. Have you lived up to the real meaning of the phrase School Spirit ? Were you on the foot ball Field or the basket ball floor, during the past season. or if you could not play, were you present at the games to cheer those who did play, as a reward for their faithful service? Did you support them by buying a season ticket? Our athletic tickets have always been reasonable in price, and every loyal student should buy one that the team may have better equipment. Did you attend the oratorical contest, and would time as the contestants did to represent Yan plain that the big factor in building up high necessary in any business venture and equally of a large High School. you have spent as many hours of Vtlert among other schools? It is school spirit is co-operation. lt is necessary in the successful conduct llut we must not let school activities overshadow the real purpose for which the High School was founded, The real purpose of the school is to spread learn- ing. ln carrying out this purpose the high school teaches the students many useful things. VVe should make use of these opportunities, for we are preparing for business and life. Along with the educational value received in the High School there is another line of development even more important and that is the building of character. The High School trains each one for citizenship and by the responsibility placed in him he is trained to know his own abilities and to depend upon himself. The High School is so important and so valuable that it should be the finest possible. There are three ways in which you may strive toward this ideal-by supporting all school activities, by co-operating with the school officials, and by upholding scholarship. These three requirements are all contained in school spirit' liet us become so imbued with real school spirit that the coming year will be one of the best in the history of the Van VVert High School. 14 I