East High School - Eastonian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Miss Hatch, our counsellor, carries important duties and responsibilities at East. This year, one of her important duties was the organizing of the High School Victory Corps at East. By the end of school there were several hundred s t u d e n t members of this organization. The b u r d e n of adjusting the programs of tho s e who were working, qualifying for the Victory Corps, or beginning the new pre-induction courses for seniors, was a duty of Miss Hatch. As one of the advisors of the Student Counsel, she helped to organize this group into an effective st ud en t a d m i n i st r at ion. 8 Mr. Broadlick has many and varied duties as vice-principal of East. This year it was his problem to adjust the seniors’ programs in such a way as to relate to the war effort. Several new subjects were introduced for this purpose, and the adjustment of such programs was the duty of the vice-principal. All of the extra-curricular activities at East are under the supervision of this executive. 'I'lie literary clubs and departmental clubs come in this group. Being chairman of the assembly program committee, il is the duty of the vice-principal lo help plan interesting and profitable assemblies for the student body. Mr. Broadlick might be called an “advice-principal.” 11 is doors are always open to help students and teachers with their school problems. As advisor of the junior and senior classes, he comes into contact with class organizations. He supervises all activities of both classes, including the graduation activities of the senior class. Aided by Mr. Nichols and Sergeant Mansour, the vice-principal helps to keep order in the cafeteria and to supervise the assigning of cafeteria seats. In short, the vice-principal is the person who sees that the machinery and mechanics of the school run as smoothly as possible. MISS LOUISE HATCH Counsellor JOHN N. BBOADLICK Vice-Principal

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To the Students of East High Seliool At the close of my first year as principal of East High School I am glad of the opportunity to express my sincere appreciation of the unreserved support I have received from the student body, the faculty, and the patrons of the school. I have never worked with a more responsive group of young people. The wholehearted co-operation of the faculty has been most gratifying. My contacts with the school patrons, though limited, have been uniformly pleasant and helpful. Our year together has renewed and strengthened my abiding faith in American youth and in that distinctively American institution, the public schools. This year has been one to test the fundamental soundness of both. “Ours may be the tragic privilege of living in the greatest military crisis since Napoleon; the greatest economic crisis since Adam Smith; the greatest social crisis since the fall of the Roman Empire,” said Eric B. Johnston. We have seen in increasing numbers our graduates and even our active students enter the military services and have read in the press frequent reports of their daring achievements and occasional untimely sacrifice. The multiplied demands made upon us all by the war program have been faced with courage, intelligence and enthusiasm. No essential or even desirable activity has been abandoned, but all phases of school life have been reshaped to meet developments current and to come. Pre-induction courses have been set up, adequately staffed, and filled with carefully selected groups. The Victory Corps, the Federal war plan for schools, has been integrated with an expanded program of student participation in school affairs through an extension of the work of the student council. Faculty-sponsored council committees charged with getting specific jobs done through personal work and home room co-operation have proven highly efficient. All curricular and extra-curricular activities have been pointed up to meet the criterion set forth by the Educational Policies Commission: “In the secondary schools, every young person must be regarded a reservist in preparation for the armed forces or for the war industries.” Though our immediate task is winning the war, and we have willingly joined mobilizing the schools of the nation to aid in bringing this to pass, through the murk of materialism of the moment, there must be kept alight the glowing idealism which has brought America safely to this day, confident that the American way of life is worth preserving at any sacrifice. And when the war is won, we must be prepared to enter upon the perhaps more arduous task of establishing for ourselves and for all the world a just and lasting peace. Faithfully, W. W. Clkment.

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East Leaders From eight in the morning till live in the evening the office doors are open to all. Mr. Clement is seen in his office working on a letter of recommendation for one of our departing seniors. Mr. Clement spends many hours in his office faithfully working for the benefit of the students and the welfare of the school. Mr. Clement in his freshman year at East has effectively given his energy to meeting East's wartime problems. Because of the present world situation the academic problems have been most perplexing. Many times it has been necessary for Miss Hatch. Mr. Clement and Mr. Broadlick to “go into a huddle” and straighten “kinks” in the new courses devised for the emergency. Mr. Broadlick receives many telephone calls during the day from parents of students. Mr. Broadlick is seen talking with some parent concerning little Johnny or Mary. We also find Miss Hatch talking with an underclassman and helping him to make out his new program card. These three administrative heads are on hand at all times to help students.