Edison High School - Wizard Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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LOUIS G. COOK THE 1934 WIZARD looks into the crystal ball and there attempts to see To-morrow. Is it a To-morrow of freedom or a To-morrow of ordered thought and action? If our thinking is to be controlled for us. schools will change into palaces for propaganda and machines to turn out standardized citizens; and democracy in our country will be dead. If it is to be a To-morrow of real freedom, then we must teach less of subject matter and more of the joy of real independent thinking. We have purchased our freedom here at a great price and must not sell it for a “mess of pottage.” I look for a great struggle to maintain our right to think and speak independently. and this battle must be led by you of Edison who read these pages. Do not be misled by false prophets from Yesterday who would have you return to the orthodoxy of the past, but follow the leaders of true democracy and freedom who look toward the new day of To-morrow. I • 18 •

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our school counselor MISS KOCKEN. our school counselor, is a very material factor in the “to-morrow” of Edison students. When each pupil enters the ninth grade Miss Kocken has a conference with him and plans a high school course suitable to his future occupation. If a student is undecided about his vocation, this adviser offers suggestions and advice to help him choose the future for which he would best be fitted. Beside this work. Miss Kocken advises pupils throughout their entire high school career. If a boy or girl wishes to enter a vocational school. Edison’s counselor makes arrangements for the transfer. When one has difficulty with comes to his assistance. his MISS KOCKEN program of subjects, she When a senior begins his last year. Miss Kocken checks his credits to see whether they are sufficient for his graduation. If there arc any credits lacking, she tries to plan the person’s program providing for the necessary subjects with which to graduate. After seniors have graduated, the counselor makes an effort to place them in colleges through scholarships or to find positions for them in offices, banks, hospitals, schools, etc. At the bottom of this page are pictures of several Edison alumni who have been placed or guided by Miss Kocken.

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RUTH F. COLE “O-MORROW: What will it bring? What joy or what sorrow? What shame of defeat or nride of accomolishmcnt? I n f ( it f • i nr 11 1 0% v r j ri . A shame of defeat or pride of accomplishment? ln the future each will experience undreamed-of changes. Yet every to-morrow will have had its yesterday. For it is to-day that makes to-morrow. To-day we sow that which we will later reap. To-day's seeds of hard work, faithful service, unselfishness, and loving kindness will blossom gloriously and abundantly on the morrow. We must then be up and working in the garden of to-day. Yesterday is gone: to-morrow will never come: but to-day is here. May you make it glorious! • 19 •