Emporia High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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W 415.4-Epi, wi 42 I-4.4 my , ,,u.n..r J Lefi fo Right: Miss Reita M. Richel, William F. Hsgenbari, Dr. Stanley Vandervelde, J. M. Penny, Dr. M. L. Henrikson, Dr. Carl A. James, Mrs. Funsron, J. Eckdoll, and V. L. ImMasche. CARD OF EDUCATIO J,: .adv 'fy I-av 5 'T7' Henry Patterson Mrs. Irene Wooton Miss Reita M. Richel Mrs. Gerry Bradford School Psychologist, School Nurse. Clerk of fhe Board of Education. Secretary io the Superiniendenf 10

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SUPERI TE DE TS MESSAGE I us difficult to have a meeting of the minds when the term extra currucular us used sunce this educational term has a multutude of connotations depending upon the unduvudual and hus background of experience To some people the term extra currucular us all unclusuve of everything outsude of readun rutun and ruthmetuc while others guve ut a much more lumuted scope And the march of time has changed the role of certaun actuvutues from the extra cur rucular to the currucular un various communutues For example when l played un the hugh school orchestra ut was defunutely an extra currucular actuvuty funanced by private lesson fees and held after school hours but un the school buuldung The same hustory can b repeated un many communutues concerning debate and dramatucs At one time any kind of health and physucal educatuon actuvuty was considered definitely as extra currucular Around World War ll time the State of Kansas Department of Publuc lnstructuon ruled that students must have a unut of health and physucal education to graduate from hugh school Hence there are many examples of actuvutues starting as extra currucular whuch became so popular educatuon wuse that the parents through school program However whether the extra currucular actuvutues are directly connected wuth the school or not for youth to secure a balanced and sound educatuon there must at all tumes be habitual moderatuon un the indulgence of the appetute for office holdung and membershup un varuous extra currucular actuvutues Thus responsubuluty for moderatuon rests prumaruly wuth the home un the relatuonshup of the youth and parents but ut should be supplemented by the advice of the counselors teachers and admunustrators of the school Whule many benefucual experuences can and do come to students un theur par tucupatuon un extra currucular actuvutues nevertheless an over undulgence would parallel an effort to develop a strong physucal body wuth dessert beung the mauor portuon of each meal Extra currucular actuvutues and much each day un the total development of the uwduvudual and contribute certaun aspects of luvung that are not obtaunable un the regular classroom However extra currucular actuvutues are not a panacea for all of educatuons ulls For ut to be most effective habutual moderatuon wuth full consuderatuon of cubuluty of the unduvudual must be the watch word Suncerely yours Carl A James Superintendent of Schools 9 Y 1 ' ' ' Il ' ' Il ll - ' ll ,, . ,, . . . . . I . . ,, . , , .. , , . . ,, . . . . . I I I ' I . . - , 9 . . . . . . .. . , . . , I ' 1 - . . I , 1 I I l their Board of Education, requested that such activities become a part of the regular ,, . ,, . . . . . I . V D I l I I U . , , V , . . . . h . . .. I I . . . ,, ,, . . . ll - H ' - ' . , ' . , . . . ,, . . ,, . ' I I , ' . , I L X15

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'hue W x xr' 1 x K x xx ss ss svn x 5 fr' PRINCIPAL S MESSAGE One phase of attendmg school that many students overlook ns the partrcupatron an extracurrrcular actrvatres The actrvltues as planned for the students of Emporra Hugh School afford the opportumty to partucupate nn musrc forensrcs dramatncs clubs antra mural and lnterscholastlc athletics conventions conferences and many other events These actuvrtues are an accepted part of the school s total program an an effort to help form well rounded crtnzens from todays youth There ns a danger of course of over partrcnpatron rn actrvrtres at the expense of scholarship The two must be kept rn balance so that the wheels of learning turn smoothly lt rs up to each undrvrdual student to determrne the amount of tume that he or she can spend profntably un the pursunt of actavntnes and strll marntarn acceptable stand h d and the well rounded student ards of scholastrc achlevement The two go hand an an provndes for both rn hrs hugh school career Sincerely Afzfif 7 - 1 at l M 1? ' 3 'itllf sl' , X 1 gem., 2 Q'-RW! . :df 943' xt x. z. , f A Ju' ' wt' 'rr- ' 'X-u. nQ.2-Q Cx Ml is: -3- -- t ,- ,T -f sql--Steers:-:cn : 2 Kunxuufuxi: .0 f wsu-xxnuzr jk .ul v.u.,..s.E,7 .,g- x xnxx!-01' ,:',5..u.x..-r xx-wqai .:,g--:Hxus mx-U, 5'- -4-if ' XiXN Q55 l ..- -- X , Q-:sux x -uv-'Y 4' 5-::::- x uns-5' -: -.1 'Je ' ' .--Y-4' ef. .. 'FY iff .r-r.:-.:',: . ... ws .- 4:55 a ::?: ?j :.' 2: 5 'F f --J-.....-..-:K-:g-wg 5-. -.,:.:: S- - --11. -rf- ,'::,:: .-.,':.--1-755, ':f:::' Tff: szffi- ' 5' if LEP ':jZf:T2,. ?' :- -: .5 , .-., ,f.f:.,, ' 1 I 1 1 1 1 ' I I I ' . . . , . , . , I I - 1