Creston High School - Saga Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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di y r ,.-1-wk ,V 1 , t , lr ' W ' ' ' i. 'M' if it , ,april ,W MR. HOWARD WICKETT is Creston's Chief Pedagogue Friend to the ambitious student and terror to the wrong doersf' Mr. Howard W. Wickett has supervised Creston students and faculty for the past eleven years. Known among Grand Rapids peo- ple as an excellent public speaker he is called on for frequent appearances before luncheon clubs and other Grand Rapids organizations. He has also acquired renown as a golfer of no mean ability at Green- ridge Country Club. if

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This Saga is Dedicated to Miss Louise Biddle To Miss Louise Biddle we proudly dedicate this, the 1947 Saga. Teach- ing English and supervising a very busy seventh grade session room keeps this grand person occupied. Modestly and without fanfare she has gone her way these many years, leaving the strong imprint of her personality and sturdy character up- on all who come in Contact with her. ..?-,sl ? 5

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Once upon a time in far-away Greece, twenty or thirty men, dressed in comfortable, simple robes, were seen strolling about the market place. Gradually, they gathered and sat down around an old and very wise man who had traveled far and talked with many other wise men. They listened respectfully to the lecture in which the old philosopher explained his anwers to the prob- lems of living and the mysteries of the universe. Witll all our scientific knowledge today, we are hardly nearer the solution to these problems than the Greek philosophers. What they said in ancient Athens 300 years before Christ influences us today in countless ways. The words of Epicutus, Zeno, Socrates, and Plato are still studied in our colleges. Higher education in Greece consisted largely of listening to and 'taking part in such philosophical discussion. Younger Greeks, in the care of their pedagogues, went to privately operated schools and gymnasiums where they studied arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, rhetoric, and debate, and engaged in athletic games of various sort. The word pedagogue is often applied to teachers today. In Greece, a pedagogue was a slave who had general charge of his master's sons and attended them on their walks to and from school. While modern pedagogues could hardly be called slaves, except to duty, they do still attend the young people, but in school, instead of on the way to school. May we present our pedagogues? Philosophers and Pedagogues Miss Evelyn Adams - general science, and biology - Science when well-digested is nothing, but good sense and reason. Miss Lorraine Adams - art - The learned understand the reason of artg the unlearned feel the pleasuref' Miss Dorothy Bean-history- A light heart lives long. Miss Louise Biddle-English- You will find poetry no- where, unless you bring some with you. Mr. Paul Bowersox-civics- Think for yourself, you're a citizen of democracy. Mr. Harold Carlyon-math. and aeronautics-- In aero- must share it, happiness was born a twin. nautics one finds new things only by looking for them. Miss Doris De Ruiter-mathematics- He that can have Miss Lois Conrad - dramatics and public speaking-'2 Speech patience, can have what he will. is the index of one's mind. Miss Doris Dunham-history- Life is not so short but Miss Harriett Daniels-English- All who would win joy, that there is always time for courtesy.