Central High School - Arrow Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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13 TEACHER PEOPLE By F. L. Rathman Everything, we arc told, is either mineral, vegetable, or animal. There are, furthermore, eight kinds of animals; but it is generally agreed that they may he more simply grouped into these railed lower and higher, the human being acknowledglv the most advanced and therefore highest. Human beings, in turn, are classified as to various races. Further than that and excepting differences in appearance, character. and personalty, all human beings belong in the same category. They are commonly called PEOPLE. W hat, then, are teachers? Since they are neither mineral nor vegetable, they must be termed animals. Because they have the power of reason, they may be placed in the higher group—that of people. Indeed they are, in the last analysis, human beings—even as you. their students. Teachers, then, are not a class set apart. The very nature of their position in life requires that as a result of their training, they are (or should be) educated authoritatively in their various lines. Often they insist that they know all. that they are never wrong. What of that? Someone has pointed out. “Some folks (other than teachers, toot would rather blow their horns than listen to Sousa's band.” What if teachers are mistaken in their self-esteem? After all, all people make mistake's— that's why erasers are put on Lad pencils. It was Theodore Roosevelt who said. “The man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” Seriously, if you and your teachers have ever seemed to disagree, could it be partly due to your agreement with the schoolboy's definition of a hypocrite as a “kid what comes to school w id a smile on his face ? It was Ruskin who said, “In all things throughout the world, the man who looks for the crooked will see the crooked, and the man who looks for the straight will see the straight.” And so it is in school as in all of life. Your teachers are, of necessity, your leaders. Rut they are also your fellow human beings, your friends. What though you disagree? It would he monstrous if all thought alike. Yet. as one teacher expressed it, “How often we set others down as peculiar simply because their ideas do not agree with ours . History reveals that it has always been that way. It was an old Quaker who remarked to his wife, “All the world is queer, except thee and me. and even thee is a little queer. Have you ever stopped to realize that you may be as hard to understand—yes. and to like—to your teacher as he is to you? Charles Dickens once remarked, “Try to do to others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. Above all, try to remember that like George Washington, who never told a lie; like Abraham Lincoln, who was constantly a simple, straight-forward, and sincere friend to the common people; like Socrates, who completely lived up to his convictions; like anyone who has ever gained any place of rank: like your friends, whom you admire: like your enemies whom you dislike; like you, who may be guilty of thinking otherwise, teachers are people. They like; they dislike; they triumph; they fail; they think; they feel; they are glad; they are sad: and they want more than anything else to be treated like human beings! As your friends, then, your teachers are w ishing you well.

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12 AT WORK—-AT PLAY (1) Clara Flemington is patiently pointing out that proteins are necessary to a rounded diet. (2) Well.” scowls Merten Hasse, “what are you up to now?” (3) Ben Miller looks as if he was evening the score with another Mechanical Drawing student who likes to play around. (4) Despite the trials and tribulations of Courtesy League and Student Court. Carl Gruhn is “happy about the whole thing.” (5) Does the next page say, “Gargle three times daily,” Adeline Klein? (6) The candid camera caught Rosa Lambert lecturing on the process of etching as applied to craft jewelry. (7) Beryl DeHaven was the picture of industry— all for the benefit of the camera man as the clock struck four. (H) We can say it in French hut it will sound more sincere if we say in English “We’re glad you’re the Girls' Counselor. Charlotte Mason”. (9) Ray Antil may be a demon on the gridiron but Cy Ho I gate had him in shirt sleeves in five minutes of strip poker. (10) Our camera man, Bert Popowski, got caught in a trap of his own setting. (11) Have you run out of material on Hitler, Cecil Monroe; or is this recreational reading? (12) Seated in the sanctum sanctorum just off the library, Alma Thomas posed for this candid shot. (13) Ah ha! Charley W inner; we gotcha where we want-cha now! (14) Is it day-dreaming, Delores W ood: or can it he ... Arrow worries?

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BARBARA ANDERSON English, Sophomore Debate RAY ANTIL Football Coach, History ETHELYN BAILEY Sh orthand, Typing KATHLEEN BRADY English, Public Speaking RUTH CLEMENS Physical Education DWIGHT COURSEY Journalism HELEN COURTNEY English ROY DAVIDSON Geometry, Assistant Coach BERYL DEHAVEN English, Drama CLARA FLEMINGTON Home Economics ESTHER EREBERG Library Assistant J A N ETTE GR EENSJ11 ELDS Biology CARL GRUHN Chemistry, Geometry INEZ HAMMOND English SAM HARDING General Shop MERTEN HASSE German, Physics INGA HOLEN Shorthand, Typing CLARE HOLCATE Athletic Director, Basket ball Coach