Dunkerton High School - Raider Yearbook (Dunkerton, IA)

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6To Our Jdagnificent New Consolidated School whose greater High School spirit and whose promising benefits are anxiously awaited to be enjoyed, these pages of memories we happily dedicate. Three

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An Appreciation We led that this year book would not be complete without an expression of the gratitude we feel toward the men who have made our beautiful new building possible. If there is anyone who thinks that membership on the School Board is an office to be sought lor. especially during the construction of a building in such times as we have had, let him investigate the duties and privileges of School Board members before he gives voice to his thoughts. Of all the public offices there are, the office that costs the man who holds it the most is membership on the school board of a Consolidated School District during the construction of a new building. In the first place there is no salary attached. In the second place, it demands a great deal of time and money. Our School Board has spent in meetings alone since consolidation, time that totals considerably over a month and a half of ten-hour days. 1'his time is the time in actual meetings and does not take into consideration the time spent in inspection of other buildings and the trips to Des Moines and other places to inspect equipment. This time has been worth money to these men. I hey have to pay the same rate of school tax that anyone else does and besides that they have each donated over a month’s wages to the school. Anyone who thinks that it has been an easy thing tor a man to neglect his own work to give his time to the school and community and alter he has done the best he can, have people offer him nothing but criticism for his efforts in their behalf—well, a trial would soon convince that person otherwise. I he people in this district were extremely fortunate in their choice of Board members. All are men of proven ability. And they have been untiring in their efforts to give to the Community of Dunkerton a school that everyone is justly proud ot. We all know how well they have succeeded, but it is human nature to hold back praise until a man is in his grave. Consequently the encouragement and credit that the Board deserves has not been accorded them. So we, who have enjoyed the “fruits” of their labors, do realize what the School Board has done for us and for the Community and want to take this means of expressing our appreciation to them. Our thanks are also due Mr. Moeller, our County Superintendent, who so carefully and wisely planned our building with the able assistance of Mr. I loward Burr, the architect. We have in our new building the product ol the minds ol these two men—the former, one of the most prominent and able educators of our state, and the latter, one of the most up-to-the-minute school architects. It is tine to the combined planning of these two men that our school has such a high rank among the Consolidated Schools of the state. A word of appreciation is also due Mr. Prank Chapman, the contractor, who worked so diligently under tremendous disadvantages to get our building finished as soon possible. We feel that no amount of money or planning could have given us the splendid building we have without the efficient services of an able contractor. And anyone who thinks we did not have an able contractor will be convinced otherwise upon visiting our new building. l-our