East Alton Wood River High School - Oiler Yearbook (Wood River, IL)

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SCHOOL SPIRIT CODE The Wood River Community High School student who would show school spirit must have a correct mental attitude toward his conduct, his individual work, his activi- ties, his associates, and his leadership. Toward his conduct. 1. He must be clean minded. 2. He must show intolerance of deceit. 3. He must be honorable at all times. 4. He must learn self-control. 5. He must be willing to recognize and overcome his faults. 6. He must discourage all boisterous conduct in and about the school building. 7. He must respect the rights and properties of others. 8. He must encourage cleanliness and neatness in the school. 9. He must give obedience to all rules of the school. 10. He must be friendly to all, not merely to the members of his clique. 11. He must do his best to right any wrong that he sees. Toward his individual work. 1. He must do faithfully from day to day all work assigned. 2. He must be unselflsh in endeavor, caring more for the satisfaction which comes from doing a thing well than for praise or grades. 3. He must work courageously in the face of obstacles. Toward his activities. 1. He must attend class meetings as regularly as possible and should enter ac- tively into the business of the meetings. 2. He should regard election to office in any school organization as an honor con- ferred by his fellow students, and consider his acceptance of such a posi- tion as a pledge of service to the organization. 3. He must hold and practice fair ideas and ideals of sportsmanship. 4. He must respond heartily fwithin the limits of his abilityl when requested to take part in any activity. Toward his as ociates Cstudents and facultyh. 1. He must be just and fair in commenting about others. 2. He must be kind, courteous, and considerate of all his school associates al- though some of them may not be his particular friends. 3. He must make himself helpful. Toward his leadership. 1. He must try by word and example to influence other students to meet the ideals set forth in this code. 2. He must actively oppose that conduct on the part of others that violates the ideals of this code. -5- :I F ni

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Bvhimtinn K!! O that intangible something that grips the hearts of all worthy pupils and fosters in them a pride in their school and its equipment, an appreciation of their opportun- ity to attend school, and a desire to progress and to do a high standard of school Work alwaysg and that prompts them to enter whole-heartedly into all the wholesome activities of the school- to that intangible something called School Spirit, we dedicate this volume of The Echo. ms' ms' as ,os 5? is qlitgfgi . X if

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Foreword The Senior Classes, through the eforts of the Annual Staff, present The Echo of 1925 to the students, alumni, and friends. For the students may it be a pleasant reminder in pic- tures and story of the years spent in our high schoolg for the alumni may it awaken happy memoriesg for the friends may it be a record of the pro- gress made by the classes of 1925. -5-