Appleton High School - Clarion Yearbook (Appleton, WI)

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fb ancfihegcfmal Members of the school board are Mr. Homer H. Benton, Mr. l. F. Behnke, Dr. G. T. Heqner, Mr. C. K, Boyer, and Mr. Robert McGillan, standing, deceased April l7, and Mr, lohn Wood, Mr. Benjamin I. Rohan, superintendent, Mr. Seymour Gmeiner, president of the board, and Miss Myra B. Hagen, secretary, seated. Mayor Iohn Goodland, lr., is formally presenting the school to Mr. Seymour Gmeiner, president of the school board, the night ot dedication. On Tuesday evening, December sixth, Appleton's new senior high school, ablaze with lights, was dedicated to the perpetuation of democracy. A capacity audience ot towns- people attended the impressive, three-hour dedicatory program. The three musical organizations of Appleton High School-the band, orchestra, and chorus -Dr. G. T. l-legner, a member ot the Board of Education, the Reverend F. C. Reuter, Mr. C. K. Boyer, chairman of the school board's building committee, Mr. H. H. Helble, high school principal, Mayor lohn Goodland, lr., and Mr. Seymour Gmeiner, president of the Board of Education, participated in the solemn cere- mony which pledged the new school to send into the community Uthoughts, concepts, atti- tudes, and principles which are fundamental in a democratic nation. We dedicate this school to the perpetua- tion and improvement ot democratic society and representative government, to the develop- ment ot self-respect and the preservation ot human rightsethe supreme value ot the in- dividual, to the continuation and perpetuation of the working principles ot democracy- ,im-ass uiwiuwitm M

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N X, 'i fi 'TJ Q N -' ' 'VI by .J 1, K, f rule by the majority yet safeguarding the minority. It is particularly fitting that this theme was chosen as the keynote of the dedication at a time when the theories and doctrines of democratic living are being challenged in many parts of the World. Fulfillment of the ideal of democracy is, then, the purpose to which this finest of educational institutions was pledged that evening. The Board of Education accepted this charge when Mayor Goodland on behalf of the city council presented the building to the chairman of the board, Mr. Gmeiner. There is little doubt that those citizens of Appleton who were among the audience will ever forget the close of the dedicatory ceremony. For as the lights dimmed and the band rose to play lohn Phillip Sousa's immortal Stars and Stripes Forever, the heavy curtains in the rear of the stage parted to reveal, poised against a background of Old Glory, a white-clad Statue of Liberty holding aloft a flaming torch, the symbol of freedom. Visitors who toured the building before and after the program were impressed by the unusual facilities for educational achieve- ment. Never before have Appleton high school students had such outstanding ad' vantages as this year's sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Through the medium of this publication the students of Appleton High School express their willingness to make common cause with the ideal to which the building was pledged. i I I i . - 1 'l - 1 .l ,