Corrigan High School - Blue Quill Yearbook (Corrigan, TX)

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,..,,.......V.-.. .. ,... . Y --7- .-. -.. .. .- . . . ..-.-,.i-...Q-W v- -1- Y' '-f 'fr - SIJITI bots IIDQITIOCPGCQ CORRIGAN HIGH SCHOOL WINS NATIONAL HONORS IN A FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS PROGRAM AMONG 50 SCHOOLS IN NATION WINNING DISTINGUISHED AWARDS February 18, l95Z giiieedoms gguzzatzztbn VALLEY FORGE KENNETH o. wEu.s PA- February 15, 1952 The Principal Corrigan High School Corrigan, Texas Dear Sir: We have good news for you because you brought good news to us: that your school is doing something outstanding to emphasize and preserve the fundamental freedoms in our American Way of Life. The entry submitted by Corrigan High School was considered by our distinguish- ed National Awards .Tury to be one of the fifty outstanding entries worthy of award. The purpose of this letter is to tell you that this award carries with it a Freedoms Library for your school, a Freedoms Foundation gold award medal, and an all-expense paid trip to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, for one ill teacher and one fll student from your school. The teacher and student selected are entitled to an expense-paid trip using first class trans- portation facilities over any type of carrier that you wish to selectg air, rail, or automobile. Hotel accommodations and meals will be provided for them at the Valley Forge Hotel in near- by Norristown, Pennsylvania. We will meet them at the Main Line Pennsylvania.Railroad station at Paoli, six miles from Valley Forge, or will meet them at the Philadelphia Inter- national Airport. Because of limited facilities at Valley Forge Hotel, we can assure no addi- tional space for family or friends who desire to accompany them. Nearby Philadelphia, how- ever, twenty-three miles away, offers unlimited housing facilities. During their stay here, your representatives will visit Freedoms Foundation, Valley Forge Park, Washington Memorial Chapel, Washington's Headquarters, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, and other national shrines in this area. They will appear on radio and possibly television shows. The Freedoms Library will be shipped to your school following the Valley Forge Pilgrimage. Freedoms Foundation's honor medal will be presented to a representative of your school at regional awards ceremonies to be held during March or April. You will be given more com- plete information about this presentation at an early date. As soon as your representatives have been selected, please advise us of their names and whether or not they will need to have their transportation advanced to them. The responsibility for scheduling their trip is yours. We will furnish transportation and prepay it if requested over any direct route. Your representatives should arrive on the afternoon or evening of May l, and should plan to leave on May 4. They may, however, arrive as late as the morning of May Z and leave as early as the evening of May 3 if conditions demand. Information concerning this award has been given to your local newspaper for release on the afternoon of February ZZ. In the meantime we shall ask your cooperation in keeping this in- formation on a confidential basis until broken by the local press on February 22.. Congratulations! Sincerell' Yours' Kenneth D. Wells

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SlJl'l'llJOlS ol QITIOCPCICLI FREEDOM IN ACTION IN CORRIGAN HIGH SCHOOL DURING THE 1950-'51 TERM THAT WON FOR THE SCHOOL ONE OF THE HIGHEST HONORS IN THE NATION This past term a few days before the anniversary of the birthday of President George Washington, a regis- tered letter was received at Corrigan High School an- nouncing the startling news that our high school had been selected by a distinguished national awards jury as having submitted one of the 50 outstanding entries in a nationwide fundamental freedoms program spon- sored by the Freedoms Foundation, Inc., at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The announcement came as a complete surprise to everyone, as Mrs. Aline Rothe, yearbook sponsor who entered the high school in the contest, had told no one about it as she did not want anyone to be disappointed in case the schoo1's entry did not win an award. And the award was really a surprise to her, also, as it had been quite some time since she had submitted the ma- terial-on the closing date, November 1, 1951-and she had practically forgotten about entering it. As requested in the letter on the opposite page, an- nouncement of the high school's great honor was not officially made until the anniversary of President Washington's birthday. On Friday, February 22, Super- intendent Floyd D. Manry called a special assembly of faculty and pupils and made the announcement about the school's being one of fifty in the entire nation cited for a distinguished awards entry, entitling the school to a Freedoms Foundations Library, including many famous books, films, records, and reproductions of his- torical documents, a gold medal, a bronze plaque, and an all-expenses paid trip for one teacher and one pupil to the Freedoms Foundation Pilgrimage May 1-4 to historical shrines of Valley Forge, Washington's head- quarters, and other historic places in and around Philadelphia, the birthplace of American Freedom. The entry which won for Corrigan High School this distinction was entitled Summary of a Program Promot- ing American Democratic Principles In Corrigan High School, Corrigan, Texas, During the 1950-'51 School Term. Included in the summary was an account of the promotion of democracy by the local high school chap- ter of the National Honor Society, the yearbook staff, the senior class, chapel programs, a copy of Charline Stanford's prize-winning essay on Americanism in last year's essay contest sponsored by the Texas Friends of Conservation, Inc., and pictures of local high school pupils taking part in patriotic activities. As the annual goes to press, Mrs. Rothe and Gwen Hudson, yearbook editor, selected by vote of the fac- ulty as the high school's student representative, are making plans to fly to Valley Forge to take part in the 1952 Freedoms Foundation Pilgrimage.

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