Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Casey High School Mr. J. Bruce Buckler Su perintendent I 131

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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]

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The Flame of 1934 FACULTY Mary Cochonour Biology and Physical Education Indiana State Teachers College, B. S. Carl Bergeson Economics, History, and Coach University of Illinois, B. S.; Northwestern University Coaching School. Ava Marik Ennis English and lrtiblic Speaking Illinois State Normal University; University of I Hi nois, A. B. A. C. Daugherty Science Knox College, B. S.; University of Illinois, M.S.; Ch i cag U n! ve rsity. Walter A. Newlin Agriculture University of Illinois, B. S. Marik Emricii Librarian Indiana State Teachers College. T. C. Tadk Commerce Marion Normal College, M.Acct.; Indiana State Teachers College; Bowling Green College of Commerce. M URIEL Maggke Mathematics Illinois Woman’s College; University of Illinois, B. S. [ 14]