Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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 ORDER OF BOOKS Views Around the Building School Departments Athletics Jokes and Snaps Senior Corner

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These, working with the native Hoosiers, have developed a city that is known everywhere as the home of the line building stone. Thus the city has rounded her first cycle. She has lived through a century that has witnessed more changes than any other four centuries since the Christian Kra—the century of the steamship and the steam engine, the telegraph and the telephone, the automobile and the air plane, the motion picture and the radio, the sky-scraper and the war memorial. Another man of vision, the organizer of our American school system, saw that “National safety, prosperity, and happiness could be obtained only through Free Public Schools, open to all. good enough for all. and attended by all.” Since the essence if Americanism is constructiveness, and since the only aristocracy in this country is the aristocracy of achievement, could lied ford more fittingly commemorate her hundredth birthday than by providing, as she is doing, for the children of Medford an opportunity to prepare for Service, in adequate buildings made of her chief product— The Nation’s Building Stone ? New View of Bedford

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