Cherryvale High School - Echo Yearbook (Cherryvale, KS)

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IOHN P. SHEFFIELD Superintendent of Schools B. S. Degree, K.S.T.C., Pittsburg, Kansas. A. M. Degree, and Superintendent of Schools Diploma, Columbia University, New York Other Graduate Work: University of Chicago. University of Southern California. University of Kansas. Columbia University. University of Wisconsin. Thirteen years in local school system. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MR. IOHN MURPHY DR. W. G. NORMAN MR. ROY WICK MR. FLOYD BROTHERS MR. PAUL CARL MR. H. S. MUSTARD Page 6

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The 1937 9 Echo ' - - J. yr :lf 3- - --- JUNIOR HIGH SOHOOL l3:llill.DING DEDICATIGN TO our Principal, Howard E. Gill, a man who, as a teacher qave his time in an effort to instill in his pupils a more definite idea of education on the lines he taught, and now as our principal, who strives to make our schools more advanced and more fully equipped, who has worked for activities to help make our education more balanced and complete, we, the senior class of 1937, and issuers of this annual, do dedicate this fourteenth volume of the Echo.

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The 1937 ' Echo Modern trends in the field of secondary edu- cation are placing more and more stress on pupil participation as a preparation for the adult activities to follow graduation. We are, to some extent, handicapped by our physical plant in developing this idea to its fullest possibilities: but only the character, honesty and willingness on the part of the student personnel can make any educational institution worthwhile. The school is just as good or bad, just as intelligent as the pupils whose names appear on the daily register. We, as teachers in the junior and senior high schools, attempt to take the boys and girls as they come to us from the grade schools, enrich their lives in knowledge, health, socialminded- ness and other essential qualities for a well- rounded lifeg keeping in mind at all times the benefits to be secured are dependent upon good leadership supported by well-informed, Willing followers. HOWARD E. GILL Education has a task today, Social change is taking place. It can be brought about in two ways: one, orderly and gradually, dominated by enlightenment and directed intelligence: the other, sudden, violent, terrible, based upon ha- tred, desperation, obfuscation, and delay. y Social problems may be solved through wide dissemination of information and the application Page 7 Q JAM .WJ ww ' Z? J 7- ff OW D GILL Principal lu or and Senior 5 Q High Schools 'H - ' B. S. Degree, K.S.T.C., Pittsburg, Kansas. Graduate work: University of Wisconsin. University of Kansas. K.S.T.C., Pittsburg. . Thirteen years in local school system. of intelligence. This is the ideal of democracy. It is the American way, up to now. The function of any agency dealing with pub- lic problems depends upon its personnel, the conditions under which work must be performed, and the enlightment of the public. Cherryvale has taken aggressive leadership in demanding trained personnel in its schools. Working conditions have been more difficult. The enlightenment of the public reaches a Wide The high schools of today are quite different institutions than those attended even twenty years ago. Teachers today are expected to be educators first, subject matter specialists, second. A broad social philosophy is a first requisite for modern day teaching. The transferring and in- culcating of this philosophy into the lives of others is not theijob of the small minded or the drone. The parent, the teacher, and the student need have closer bonds of understanding and trust today than ever before. The acquisition of facts must become secondary to acquiring the techniques of adjusting to social changes and The Board of Education, the Administration, and members of the Faculty, trust that the larger social patterns implied above may cause minor conflicts to sink into oblivion in the lives of students as the problems of adult citizenship Faithfully yours, I. P. SHEFFIELD.