Central High School - Booster Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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i 'l , ' .. .. , ,. I, rf -1-'.-.'1-K M ,Y ' .... vb - ' ev .. 'A-e: . ,.,, 1iWt....JlI0 , QQIQ ROGRESS is an elusive something refusing definition but involving a comparison between present day status of well- being of people and that of other times and implying a Ari,-5, preference in favor of the present day. Educational facilities have been increased and extended lf- i until they afford an opportunity for all people. Our own school has grown from a building of some eighteen rooms to one of sixty, from eighteen teachers to fifty, from three hun- dred lifty students to twelve hundred fifty-and all of this growth in the last decade. The curriculum has been extended to include domestic arts, manual arts, commercial work, music and physical education. Extra-curricular activities have come to include all phases of student interest and nearly two-thirds of the student body are actively engaged in one or more of these -activities. One is led to wonder if there is any place for further improvement. - Closer study would seem to reveal, however, that all of these things are merely facilities that may make progress possible, but that real progress must lie in the upbuilding of the individual student through proper use of these facilities. That, then, would seem to point out to us the direction that further progress should take. Increased understanding of the work and ideals of those around usg greater tolerance of their ideas and efforts, more satisfied acceptance of the work each has to dog keener desire to do that work in the best possible way 3 more sincere well-wishing for all those with whom we come in contactg more generous judg- ment of another's weaknesses-all these present themselves as directions of desirable progress that may prove that the past has not been in vain. PRINCIPAL GEORGE D. SCOTT. .f10j.

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That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boudhs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sand. -Shakespeare

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GEORGE D. SCOTT, PRINCIPAL I believe in boys and girls, the men and wo- men ot a great tomorrow, that whatsoever the boy soweth the man will reap. I believe in the curse of ignorance, in the efficacy of schools, in the dignity of teaching, in the joy of serving an- other. I believe in wisdom as revealed in human lives as well as in the pages of a printed book: in lessons taught not so much by precept as by example: in ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head: in everything that makes life large and lovely. I believe in beauty in the schoolroom, in the home, in the daily life and out-of-doors. I believe in laughing, in all ideals, and distant hopes that lure us on. I believe that every hour of every day we receive a just reward for all we do. I believe in the present and its opportunities, in the future and its prom- ises, and in the divine joy of living. -Edwin O. Grover. -C11 D-