Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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X, , + ff'If -'tt ,. i- ,..,.., .,, ... .,, . ..,,, xxmnnxwvnmwxxmxxmmxnmmwmmvuxuwunuunnwnx Education Is a Long Term Investment By the Public From the day of one's birth to the day of one's death, he goes to school. The school he attends is the Great School of Life. Part of this schooling, in the narrower sense, is done in the elementary, the junior and senior high schools, the college. Appleton has eight elementary and three -junior high schools, one vocational and one senior high school, and Lawrence College. Our elementary schools give training necessary for all normal children in a democracy, regardless of sex, race, religion, economic status, or future vocations. The chief characteristic of this is that it seeks to integrate and unify all of our citizens by means of common knowledge and traditions, common ideals and aspirations, and a common tongue. Secondary education in Appleton is represented by her vocational, junior and senior high schools, and by part of the work conducted at Lawrence College. It seeks to continue those integrating and unifying elements begun in the elementary schools, so essential to all citizens at increasingly higher levels of activity. Secondly, especially in the junior, but also in the senior high school, we try to find out the interests, capacities, and aptitudes of pupils by means of subject-matter and life experiences in themselves worth-wrile. Lastly, we hope to broaden vision and create desires in our boys and girls by means of these contacts. Finally, Appleton offers its citizens some specialized training. A small part of this is begun at the senior high school, and is continued in the vocational school and at Lawrence college. Puyi' lvl! -Jn

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In the union system an effort is made to equalize and unify all schools and ,uxxuaunuwnem-x--vnu--gnqnnnxun x6 - xxx-su-xmasuxmuxu-nxuxnnmn-xxux A :' W W +2152EEE'f:2Et2tEWt':?:ttttt:t::222ft::ttftitit22:22vtttttttttttttttxwft3522? W - X.. s.NxbWfiwSS' T if F fr 1 1 If 1 0 V .... Q ..................,.............................o....,... . BEN J. ROHAN Superintendent The Appleton Union School System The year l926 concluded the earnest struggle of the leading Appleton educa- for a better educational system in Appleton. Since in that year, after the begin- tors, ning of the Junior High Schools, the old and inefficient district system, where power was invested in each individual school, was abandoned for the better, more efficient and economical union system. The new system is union as Par as the educational procedure is concerned but as far as physical conditions go it is very much like the old organization. develop association and cooperation among them. Power is invested and centralized in the office of the Superintendent of schools and a board of seven members who are elected at large throughout the city. With this system better educational advantages and facilities are obtained and a greater economy in budget is preserved. We now have five high schools, including the Junior highs, and we find them all cooperating with each other and with the other schools in the city. Financial support for our schools now comes from a common treasury whereas formerly in the old district system budgets were met by the people in the ward in which the school was located. The union system has been in operation for two years and has worked out very effectively and efficiently. No one regrets that Appleton has made this pro- gressive step. Pagc nina

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Nt. . mxx NNN R Q5 X K N ss - ,. s x ,xgx gg V - . . N..x,, ,-gk, X xQxx 'c msmmSNRQ 7 ll 11 L L A R I U N -3k,gggx5 m,NNmwmwwmw'X, Q nw. ---- n-unn--unqu-un---uwnuu ..--.-.-. ...nuns-.ns ---.-.. -nu-.M ----... g ......- fx What Appleton High School Offers You What does our high school offer you? First, it aims to give training in Health. Health needs of the individual are imperative and can not be neglected. Second, Command of Fundamental Processes. These should be more or less completely learned in the elementary school. Yet, there is still place for further train- ing. This is particularly true of our mother tongue. Third, Worthy Home Membership. The social studies, literature, music, art, and home arts, should all contribute to this. Fourth, Vocation. The high school is not organized to give strictly vocational training. In its commercial, home and manual arts. music, art, and academic de- partments it attempts to give pre-vocational training. An effective program of voca- tional-educational guidance is also under way. Fifth, Civic Responsibility. This includes a many-sided interest in the welfare of the community. the ability to think and act in terms of the interests of the larger group, and participation in community affairs. Sixth, Worthy Use of Leisure. This means more than listening to the radio or seeing the movies. It calls for the ability to make use of the common means of recreation, literature, art, drama, music, social intercourse, and neighborliness. Lastly, Ethical Character. This is of the greatest importance. It means honesty, decency, reliability, integrity. It means the development of the spirit of service above self. It means the true democcracy. It means the development of a sense of personal responsibility and initiative. It is infinitely more important than graduating with honors and letter awards. Priya vluwlz