Elkhart Community High School - Echo Yearbook (Elkhart, IL)

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Our school life is spe11t with notebooks. lVe carry them with us everywhere. NYC fall to sleep worrying about them. Never are they quite out of our minds. They creep into our conversa- tion and wc discuss them with avidity or disdain, according to our mood. Notebooks everywhere . . . have you a notebook? Yvell. now you have another one, because this book is a notebook. A senior notebook. full of pictures and memories. Football games . . . basketball games . . . parties . . . people . . . clubs . . . dances. All these are important elements in our lives. Then we come back to school, open our locker, and out tumble our constant companions, our notebooks. Leaves scattering, some worthless, some valuable, we grab them and dash for our classes. They contain all the scraps, souvenirs, records of the school year . . . so does this notebook, the 1936 Pennant annual.

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NGTEBOCKS . . . 'l Notebooks and more notebooks . . .big notebooks . . . small notebooks . . . stiff leatl1er notebooks . . . cheap paper notebooks . . . notebooks to be handed in . . . notebooks full of clippings . . . economics notebooks . . . history notebooks . . . Latin note- books . . . these are tl1e very essence of school life. Loose leaves . . . illegible scrawls . . . torn covers . . . auto- graphed covers . . . broken rings . . . chaos . . . freshmen notebooks . . . senior notebooks . . . what a difference! Notebooks, the hiding place of the forbidden caricatures labeled Hteacher' '... magazines tabooed by the faculty . . . illicit notes . . . aimless drawings . . . many strange things lie within the covers of abused notebooks. l RATING E + . . . In grading notebooks, the highest possible grade is E+. Here we have some people who, we tl'1ink,are the tops and rate an E + around E. H. S. V N ef I Y of sf Y e' of of ef 6' e' of ef 0' sf ef ef sf r w ef r rf sf rr r ef r ff 6' 7 6' 7

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ADMINISTRATION. . . Page Ten Much is expected as a result of high school education, depending mainly on the viewpoint. Dr. Thos. H. Briggs, an authority and a great leader in the field of secondary education says the first duty is to teach the pupil to do better the desirable things he is going to do anyway in life. Some de- sirable things which will claim our attention in life are health, home-membership, character, leis- ure-time, vocations, and citizenship. It is well to think of each subject we study and every activity in which we participate as a contribution to some worthwhile objective. It has also been said that the aim of the high school is to put the pupil in contact with the best which civilization has produced, to discover his abilities, enlarge his interests and through partici- pation in directed activities develop the powers and capacities that enrich his own life and contribute to the welfare of the group. We should question seriously what our educa- tion is doing for us and through us. J. F. VVILEY. MR. J. F. WILEY ' Superintendent of City Schools The founders of our nation, the laws of our state, the employers in our community say that education is necessary. VVhat education implies and includes is an ever present and changing ques- tion. It is this question that inspires teachers and curriculum to strive ever to meet the changing and growing needs of the community. As your Principal, I have checked your work to see that your course meets the requirements of our state department and of our faculty and find that no two have taken exactly the same subjects nor do they have exactly the same record. It means that the school has not been a place for the passive ab- sorption of information by rote only but a place where each has chosen what seemed to satisfy his desires and needs most completely even to the extent of using thc maximum permitted in the extra curricular in some instances. It means that you have a glimpse of the paths that lead to your future interests. VVhether this purpose and this effort will justify the vast expenditure of time and money will de- pend on whether you are prepared as citizens to take up the duties it entails. If you become citizens eager for justice and right, eager for truth and courageous in seeing that these are brought to all, then we shall say it has been for the common weal Q l and therefore is justified. T MR. J. w. HOLDEMAN K Principal of High School 'I JOHN VV. HOLDEMAN. 4 .