Amherst Steele High School - Amherstonian Yearbook (Amherst, OH)

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The Personality of Steele J. H. PAiN'rEn ttllas your school a personality ? This is one of the questions asked of each principal by the committee of teachers who made the recent survey of our schools. The character of a school, like the character of an individual, is a matter of development, growth, and environment. The elements which unite to produce this individuality are subtle and complex. They embody the best traditions of her best teachers and students. The worthy tradi- tions are m-ore enduring because our teachers and the most of our students are honestly striving to reachihigher mental and moral heights, and instinctively assimilate the good and eliminate the bad. The personality of Steele has thus, through many years, been built up toward the highest ideals by the devoted care of her teachers and pupils. Their personality has been built into the Steele spirit just as the carefully chiseled stones have been built into the beautiful walls of the Steele building. The lives and examples of many teachers who have worked with us and gone on to greater opportunities, or who have gone to claim their final reward, are still a living, potent infiuence in'our school. The teachers who are now with us will continue to render service long after they have ceased to serve in person. Our students, too, both present and past, have merged their personality into this great composite character of Steele. NVhast then is the character of this composite Steele? The ready response of her sons to the call of their country, the self- sacrificing ervice of her daughters, the part she has taken in human.i- tarian movements, prove her civic interest and patriotic loyalty. The students' participation in the management of study halls, class rooms, plays, assemblies and other school activities shows a democratic spirit. The free, yet orderly, passing of classes, mingling in the lunch room and corridors, and the quiet attention during assemblies, indicate a large measure of self-control. The cordial relations existing between students and teachers show a mutual faith and a spirit of cooperation and fair play. The lives of our former students, their success in college and in business, the places of honor and responsibility which they hold i11 this community, indicate a foundation of eiiicient education, of culture, and of character. Such is the Steele personality: an. amalgamation of loyalty, democracy, self-control, culture, and character, a willingness to toil, to suffer, and to efface oneself for the greater glory of the alma mater. Page Ten

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4' 'l'u'v MARY ALICE HVNTER If'af'ulIy !'f'nsor HELEN R. BURNS Far-zllly f'l'HS07' ROBERT ZEHRING, '21 Ifzlilor-in-f'hir'f JA MES FUNKIIOVSER, '21 Assowiutr' ldrlitm' ELIZAIIETII FOLGER, '21 I'm1Iril1u!ir1y l'IfIitrf's.w PAULINE SFHROY, '21 NUf'il'I.ll Hrlitrvss FLORENCE MAYER, '21 l'I.1'f'h1lngl4' I'1rlifr1'.v.w VIOLET EVANS, '21 1101111 lfrlifrfxs CHARLES SMITH, '21 Nf'i1'IH'f' Idflilor' CHARLES HREISH, '21 f'irr'uIurion Manngvr The Staff