Washington High School - Sunburst Yearbook (Washington Court House, OH)

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'CHE SUNBURS T SENIOR CALENDAR Class Colors Turquoise Blue and Honey Class Flower Ophelia Rose Class Motto Build for character, not for fame. L I Senior Roast ..,.,..... ll,,,.iss...,..,, A pril 26 Senior Play ...,... lls.ll..ll M ay 9 and 10 Senior Picnic ......... ' May lo Baccalaureate ..ee..,....,.,..e May 18 Class Night ,..........,.......,......., junior-Senior Banquet ....... Commencement ..,..,,...,,..,.. May 20 May 2l May 22

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'CHE SUNBURST Class of '24 just four short years ago, we entered upon our high school course. These years have been filled with happiness and good comradeship, just HOW happy they have been, we are now beginning to realize as we prepare to leave our Alma Mater, some of us to take up our life work directly, and others to prepare for it in the higher training schools. It is natural that we should feel a sorrow at parting, and we dog yet we have the contentment and satisfaction of having well-completed a definite portion of our lives, and of having reached a certain milestone in our journey. With unlimited faith in our possibilities, we face the future, with no measure of fear, but with a keen anticipation of what is before us. It is right that we SHOULD feel so, for experience has, as yet, given us no reason to doubt our powers. We feel that with all our faults, we have SOME qualities worthy of imitation. ' With sixty-two members, we are the largest class yet graduated from Washington High School. We have talent of many sorts, among us, we have brains, wit, and good looks, and a spirit of loyalty to the school in our class that is seldom rivaled. Another good thing about us, is that the selfish clique, so common in the modern high school, is conspicuously absent from our midst. We pull together in all that we attempt, and petty jealousies and differences of opinion are swept aside by our devotion to our common purpose. We shall never forget the few happy years spent in Washington High, and we will try to keep the high ideals given us there, so that our school may always be proud of the Class of Twenty-Four.

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'CHE SUNBURS T A High School Education With the mentioning of this subject, the question is brought to our minds just what a high school education consists of, what is its true worth to the graduate or of what use is it to him? The true purpose in establishing schools was to enable the young people of our land to obtain instruction in the various branches of learning, namely: science, mathematics, languages, literature, and history. The founders of our school sys- tem realized that our study of these branches would enable us to pursue our chosen line of life work, regardless of what it might be. Most high schools give in- struction in all of these various branches, so it is possible for a student to obtain any course he desires. While he is studying these branches he is not only learning the contents of the text books but he is being influenced in a number of other ways. It is left to the student to determine by what methods he is to learn his assignments. He can do the work himself or he can depend upon his companions to do the work, and then use their work for his grade. It can be seen that there are two distinct types of students, one who does his own work and the one who depends upon his companions for help. Each is forming character, but each is froming a distinctly different char- acter. The association of the students en- ables them to develop their character, because honesty - co-operation - hard work are the only methods by which we may be successful in whatever we attempt to do. It would be impossible for me to say that all of us have not done something which we regret in our four years of school. We all have our faults, but if we are big enough to see those faults, our characters are strengthened thereby. There is a certain world-known institu- tion that has for its motto Spirit, mind and body. We may use that as a motto for our school, only in a different arrange- ment: Mind, spirit and body. The school must first look after the mindg it must educate it, it must train it so as to enable it to function in the solving of the problems we must face after levaing high school. The public schools of today embrace all creeds and races, and it is the purpose of the schools not to infringe upon the rights of any of them, so we find that the schools have their chapel exercises where the Scriptures are read and songs in praise of the Creator are sung. This is the way the school develops the spiritual side of the students. Last, the school encourages the development of the body through its athletics. Unfortunately, all of the stu- dent body can not participate, and to rem- edy this, compulsory physical training has been introduced, to enable those not engaged in the athletic contest to keep physically fit. We can say, then, that the high school education of today consists of the train- ing of the mind, influencing and encour- aging the spiritual development, and third, the keeping of the body physically fit. After we leave these sacred halls of learn- ing we shall be called upon to do some of the things that have been done before, but we shall be expected to do them better than they have ever been done before, be- cause of this training that we have just receivde.