Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Casey High School Now the ( real campus which has rested lonely els fallow ( round throughout the summer days, Welcomes the swift, returning feet, blit only Circs her rare smile to those who lore her ways: f 11 1

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The Flame of 1934 music room. All lockers and showers room have terrazzo floors. In 1932, $1,000 was spent for shrubbery and landscaping which made a very picturesque campus al out the vocational and academic buildings. Casey has a notable string of victories to its credit. In the spring of 1926, the school won first place in music and literary contest, first in county chorus contest, first in the tennis tournament of the Eastern Illinois High School League, and first in the triangular track meet with Robinson and Marshall. The basketball team of 1925-,26 won first place in the county and district tournaments and third place in the sectional meet. First place in the state typing contest was won by Hilda Dehl. who was sent to New York City in October. 1926, and returned as winner of the World’s School Championship and the Alfred E. Smith trophy. When the winners of the yearbooks contest were announced, the 1926 Casey Flame won second place in the state contest and was rated in I he second class of the Central Interscholastic Press Association contest. The 1927 Flame won honorable mention in the high school division in the Illinois College Annual Association contest at Millikin University. The school paper, The Broadcaster, won distinguished rating in the 1927 Illinois State High School Press Association. At the close of both the 1926 and 1927 football seasons, Casey was awarded the Wabash Valley championship. In 1927. Casey won second place in the Eastern Illinois League basketball tourney. In 1928, the Casey basketball team won the district tournament held at Paris, and the next year we won championship in the Girls’ Invitational Tennis Tournament, in the Eastern Illinois League Doubles Tennis Tournament, and in the Clark County Literary Meet. In 1930, Casey walked away with the following trophies: The Wabash Valley Preliminary Basketball Tournament, Eastern Illinois League Tennis Tournament, and several other first and second places. In 1931-’32. Casey added the following to her list of victories: Wabash Valley football champion, Clark county doubles tennis championship, county literary meet, and the county basketball championship. Besides winning the county basketball tournament in 1933, Casey won first p’ace in Eastern Illinois League mixed chorus, and the county literary meet. Already in 1934, Casey has won the Clark county basketball tournament and expects to add many more victories to her list before the year is over. The construction of a cinder track for Casey High School was begun January 5th. as a CWA project, No. 2645, Clark county. Twenty-live men were assigned to this project to work under an appropriation of $2,855 from the federal government plus $310 from the local high school. This total of $3,165 was to cover both labor and materials. The delays due to frozen ground necessitated a supplement to the original project. This supplement was granted February 24th for $1,351, which amount will cover the completion of the track. The local expense was also increased to $395, thus making the entire project carried to completion by May 1st, require the federal grant of $4,206 and a local appropriation of $396, or a total cost of $4,602 for the cinder track. The track is ideally located around the practice football playing field, being a quarter-mile track around. In addition, it has a 150-yard straight-away along the west side. The track is constructed so as to give approximately 100-yard straight-away along the north and south sides and 50-yard straight-away along the east side in addition to the 150-yard straight-away along the west side. The curves possess a 100 foot radius. The inside of the track is edged by a three-inch concrete curb set 16 inches in the ground, which makes it an official record track. Cinders are laid 10 inches deep, consisting of about six inches of coarse, three inches of screened, and one inch of sifted soft coal ash. The track is underlaid with a six-inch farm drain tile down the center for drainage. The construction of the track was under the supervision of C. P. Coffey, CWA engineer; Arthur Oakes, foreman; J. B. Buckler, supervisor, and Dr. I. W. Lee and H. M. Jones, committee from the Board of Education. It was dedicated April 21st by the county track meet. Signed by: Gic 111, Garrett. Witness: Christine Deverick. I 101

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The Flame of 1934 To Members of Class of 1934: The most fundamental American ideal is that which proposes equality of opportunity. The American program of education proposes to offer through education the provision of opportunities which will enable each individual to achieve his highest development in order that he may serve most adequately the society of which he is a member. It further proposes to offer opportunities for the development of quality of character as found in the good citizen. Good citizenship implies such qualities as honesty, thoughtfulness, responsibility, open-mindedness, obedience, self-reliance, co-operation, and respect for rights of others. This element in one’s training, known as citizenship and involving the above-named qualities, should have been gradually developed throughout the elementary and secondary school years of your training. The culmination of this training should leave one with a good understanding of what it means to be a “cultured citizen”, or an “honest trustworthy citizen”, or a “temperate citizen”. The high school course and activities in which you have engaged have had some definite bearing upon your reaction to problems of later life. Biographies of men and women of the past, dramas of life’s realities, ideals expressed in poetry are contributed as a share in this training from literature. The study of plants, animals, bacteria, insects,—give one a background of understanding which will aid one in living a healthy and appreciative life. Acquaintance and sympathy with people of other lands has been acquired through their languages and histories. One could continue to point out the many direct stimulants to larger and better living as secured through the fields of study pursued. Practically every subject offered in high school includes some theme that touches on broad human relationships. The task of making the habits attained and ideals acquired carry over actively into the larger fields of adult economic, social, civic, spiritual, or cultural living is now your immediate problem. The success you have attained in the fields of study as shown by grades on your record cards is but a limited indication of your real success. The carry-over of your habits, ideals, knowledge, and attitudes into later life is the real measurement of your past successes. Thus, you will find greater successes ahead only in so far as you put into effect the training offered through past opportunities. You will find a wonderfully co-operative people and country in which to live only in so far as those qualities of citizenship previously learned function in your own life. May life be more abundant to you, and through this abundance, may you assist others to a like abundance such that the great American ideal of equality of opportunity may become a greater and greater reality. J. B. Buckler. [ 12]