Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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Town Hall —a view of our main building

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Principal J. Bruce Buckler Citizens of Casey High Class of 1941 Dear President Jim, Please convey to the class of 1941 the following thoughts relative to the most important of all final instructions before leaving the classrooms of Casey High School. Each of you will be shifting the emphasis of your citizenship from school to community. It is presumed that you are ready for this change. Your democratic citizenship involves your ability to participate in a fairly able manner in some phase of the work of the world of which you are a part. It involves a fairly high degree of understanding of the issues of your own day and the economic and social conditions under which you are living. It involves also a spirit of cooperation or a willingness to be mutually helpful to your fellow citizens. To be properly dedicated to its task, therefore, a high school—its student body, its faculty, its administrators, and its public—must seriously devote itself to training boys and girls to work, to think, and to serve. This, we trust, has been accomplished in a manner befitting the high type of citizen made possible by living in our community and by having attended Casey Township High School. 8

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 1+ looks klnda bad doesn't it, my just sitting here and being . . . well ... a nuisance. But I have been working, honest. You won't have seen much of our town until you explore around and see how many things there are for a fella to do. Take our commerce rooms, now. Nearly always someone is busy down there getting his budget ready to hand in or trying to make his accounts add up right for bookkeeping class. At the vocational building you're likely to see a room full of girls learning to be good cooks, and it usually smells as if they're doing all right, too. The manual training rooms are interesting, and Mr. Gordon turns out a lot of good carpenters for the size of the boys he has. Upstairs is the music shop. No, my friend, those aren't screams you're hearing from over there but Mr. Hawkins educating someone on the clarinet. You really ought to drop in on the ag shop where they study seeds, implements, and farm practices. Mr. Newlin says the rats just about outnumber the boys, but he believes that the boys are the smarter. You'll see that we don't especially mind working, too. It's fun doing things with your hands . . . now watch her jump. Students at Work