Downingtown High School - Our Year Cuckoo Yearbook (Downingtown, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION BOARD OF EDUCATION Ernest Smedley........ George E. Perry....... N. Leland Wilson..... Graham H. Bentley ...................President .............Vice President ...................Secretary Mrs. Belle M. Hutchison To the members of the graduating class the board of directors are glad to extend their congratulations and continued good wishes. We feel that you share with us the conviction that it is both a responsibility and a privilege to be part of a school system like ours, one of which Downingtown is justly proud. The author's introduction to The Americanization of Edward Bok” contains a message which—and this is true of the entire book —deserves to be read and reread. This message, the words near the close of a remarkable life, reads, And now, as you go out into the world, I want each of you to take with you the spirit of your father’s work, and each in your own way and place to do as he has done: make you the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have been in it. As you, the Class of '37, go forth from our school, may it be with the resolve that you too will make the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have been in it. Page Eight

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PERSONALITIES Page Seven

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Intelligence differs both in kind and in degree. There is an academic intelligence possessed by the owners of Phi Beta Kappa keys. There is a social intelligence possessed by “Diamond Jim Bradys” and other super salesmen. There is a manipulative intelligence possessed by such men as Edison, Kettering, Raphael, Cellini, Kreisler and other outstanding inventors, artists, and musicians. There is an acquisitive intelligence which characterizes millionaires and “economic royalists . Heretofore education has been primarily concerned with and devoted to the cultivation of the first type of intelligence only, the academic, scholarly type. A few pioneers with vision encouraged the addition of the industrial arts program in order to satisfy the needs of those whose interests were fundamentally ones involving manipulative skills. Even more daring were those who proposed to inaugurate activity programs which were to be so varied in scope that every interest of the child would find some outlet in purposeful and creative activity. We like to think of the yearbook as one project which demands in its preparation all of the types of intelligence possessed by different individuals. It appeals to the varied interests of the students. It stimulates student participation in extra-curricular activities. Whatever merit the yearbook possesses may be attributed to the interest and enthusiasm of the students involved in its preparation and the intelligent guidance of the sponsor, Miss Ulrich, and her assistants, Miss Mahan and Mr. Smedley. A R. HERBERT E. REISGEN Supervising Principal To meet the needs of the community every pupil should be given an equal opportunity to develop, to the full extent of his capacities, along lines of most worth to himself and to the social group of which he is a member. This need requires a well-rounded and related field of educational offerings. Education is more than preparation for life. It is life. By providing a wide range of pupil activity in the entire school program allowance is made for the individual differences of the pupils. By balancing the program of studies with the extracurricular program the school aids in the development of efficient social beings. This is accomplished in part by an intimate understanding between the pupil and the teacher, a sympathetic guidance by the teacher and by a feeling of social responsibility on the part of the pupil. By developing desirable and useful personalities the school renders its maximum service to society. Page Nine