Blair High School - Tattler Yearbook (Blair, NE)

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1 f q D. V. Mafxer, A.B. Iowa Stale U niverrity LIVING WELL A MESSAGE TO THE BLAIR HIGH STUDENT BODY It is not how long you have lived, but how well you have lived that counts in the battle of life. The school is a laboratory for the preparation of life to live well. Quite often the students of Blair High fail to realize what wonderful opportunities are at hand. We have one of the most beautiful school homes in the state. It is not merely a public building, but it is your fine home at least six hours a day and five days a week. The rooms are equipped with furniture, laboratory equipment etc., the best that money can buy. The best and most re- cent text-books are placed in your hands, a gift from the tax-payers of the district. You have the most favorable environment and the best tools with which you may make your life richer and fuller. In order to possess the better things in life, mere book knowledge is not enough. We must develop poise, keen judgment, discrimination. social quali- ties, and the ability to speak well. We must gain the confidence of our friends. We must have good habits and a good personality. All of these are factors in the process of living well. D. V. MASSER, City Superizzzezzfient Piglt

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The most powerful dynamic in our educational progress of today is the sense of national and state civic pride and the firm belief that educa- tion is the best investment that a nation can make for l1er moral greatness and the welfare of her people. Blair exemplifies this ideal in her Senior High School by educating her students for service and citizenship. They may then, as men and women, take their part in the world of affairs, bravely and wisely, and can help to build a society fit to possess and enjoy the blessings of freedom and self-government. F. E. Flack. F. E, FLACK, B.S. 'Farkio Follege l'niu-rsity of Nebraska High School I'rincipal The junior high school is one of tl1e most recent developments of the American School System, having arisen out of the need for an institution to bridge the gap between the tradi- tional grammar school and the high school and to provide a program decidedly greater in scope and content. It is not merely a school in which the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades are segregated: it is designed to include: a departmental organiza- tion of subject matter and teaching, the organi- zation of student activities in accordance with the need-s and interests of adolescent boys and girls, Hlld a development of the individual rather than the group. H. N. White. Nine H. N. XVI-IITIC l'nix'crsity of Nebraska Junior High Principal