Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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ents to a chosen line of work. With a re¬ ward in view, he is encouraged to accom¬ plish, and to merit obsequent laurels crown¬ ing his triumphs. There are unlimited op¬ portunities wherein each student in high school might win recognition if he so de¬ sired and was willing to apply time and dor¬ mant ability to the tasks set before him. The will to score highly would soon place the student in the now traditional honor section, or the high school “Hall of Fame,” as it might well be called. The deserving “upper tenth” of the graduating class consists of those students who have labored to appear as the “cream of the class” by creating enviable scholas¬ tic records for themselves. It is this por¬ tion on which the spotlight glares the brightest, for greater things are expected, and most of them realized, of this outstand¬ ing group. They have aimed high and reached their mark. They will enter their chosen worlds and rise, for they have learn¬ ed that endeavor is inevitably rewarded; in the high school the reward is honor, but in the business v orld a more material award awaits them. Leadership, the characteristic which causes one to be the leader instead of the follower, is developed early. To be select-

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who have in some way dis¬ tinguished themselves and merited honorable mention or awards throughout the IE end of each year finds the spotlight focused upon a number of students course of the school year. Perhaps their high standard of scholastic work raised them to be honored “upper tenth” of the graduating class, or perhaps a class office had been intrusted to the student. Many other possibilities in various branches had been made the most of and the student who had striven in a particular line finds a ready position awaiting him in the coveted honor section of the annual. Awards and honors are bestowed in numerous branches of the high school course; and among these are publication awards, debate, extemporaneous speaking contest, constitution oration contest, W. C. T. U. essay contest, senior play cast, ath¬ letic honors, military honors, and numer¬ ous others. The awarding of honors is undoubted¬ ly an inspiration and a spur to the student working to achieve recognition for a year of diligent and constant applications of tal-

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ed by popular vote as the leader of one’s class is a certain sign that chosen individ¬ ual has made himself ideal in the eyes of his fellow students. They admire him for his qualities of diplomacy, tact, and an a- bility to make himself pleasantly but im¬ portantly, prominent. Desirable traits are quickly noted and distinguished one to the degree of popularity, or general appeal. Thus a leader is selected, but he must strive greatly to attain this fame. Military honors are awarded for excel¬ lence in company leadership and the ability to forge up through to private ranks to captaincies and major, appointments. The rifle team is another branch of military in which there is ample opportunity to excel. Publication awards are always in evi¬ dence, for these are offered to both the staff of this high school weekly and the staff of the annual year book. The staff of the Student “W” World is perhaps one of the most active groups in the high school, for it is their duty to bring important news to the ever increasing number of subscribers. No less deserving honor is the staff of the annual year book which labors throughout the year to compile all the phases of school life in order that the graduating class might take a memory with them on gradua¬ tion.