Blend High School - Memories Yearbook (Blend, IL)

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 We, the Senior Class, wish to dedicate this annual to you, our teachers. We will never be able fully to ex- ress our sincere appreciation for your guidance. Your ' patience, human i nsi gh t, and tolerance have helped make us into the young men and women we are today. You have laid the foundation for us, the future gener- ation. and have tried to mold us into good Americans. It is now with the knowledge you have bestowed upon us that we are entering upon a great unknown vastness. It will be up to us now--if we are to succeed or fail. If we should fail, the blame rests not with you but with us. You have done your part in aiding us. So, to you, we wish to express a hearty, Thank you.

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PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE This school believes that there is no royal road to learning and no substitute for hard work in the learning process. We believe in having school every day possible and all day. No dismissal for games or extra-curricular activities. They must come after school. Plenty of homework and students do flunk. In addition to a full academic program with strong emphasis on fundamentals, we give as much voca- tional training as our means permit both as class work and in our guidance program. Operettas, band, chorus, debate, assembly programs, and bus trips to points of interest in the big cities take care of the cultural aspect. We stress dynamic citizenship and work hard to arouse interest in local, national, and internation- al problems. This sounds rugged for these days of ease and apathy, but the record of most of our students in advanced institutions of learning and in their life work bears mute testimony to the soundness of our policy and philosophy of education. r b% fa' f 3