Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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As a matter of fact, the outstanding charac- teristic of a triumphant high school career is the extension of one's span of interest and constructive activity to a marked degree. Without developing a capacity for seeing tasks through to a creditable conclusion, one doesn't achieve much in this World of ours. This praiseworthy quality is a basic essential of success in college, on a job, in marriage, and in all manner of positive community ac- tivity. It would be a good idea, therefore, for every Englewood student to do some self- searching with regard to this key factor. How would you rate yourself in this all-important area of character and personality develop- ment? Do you rate an A, a B, a C, a D or an F? Are you unable to keep working on any given task until it is successfully completed? If you genuinely try, it is quite certain you can strengthen this central ability. You can do so by gradually and steadily stretch- ing your span of interest. Do you feel you already rate a high mark in this area? Fine, now you should develop this ability to an even higher degree. If you do, you'll definitely be on the way to success. You'll also become more and more able to do highly valuable things for the common good. MANFORD BYRD, JR Principal

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Dr. James Redmond, new General Super- intendent of Chicago Public Schools, shaking hands with Mr. Byrd, our Princi- pal. They met at a reception attended by many prominent Chicago educators. we igrinciloafli efifiage DEVELOPING MENTAL STAMINA Worthwhile accomplishment in about every sphere of constructive human activity calls for sustained effort. A very young child is generally incapable of maintaining contin- uous interest in practically anything for more than a few minutes. That is one of the main reasons why a very young child's ac- complishments are, by and large, so frag- mentary. Not until an individual reaches the age of twelve or so is he usually able to keep his mind fixed for a considerable span of time on an undertaking which requires prolonged concentration. With rare exceptions, it is not, indeed, until one enters high school, that he begins to carry through competently tasks for which noteworthy staying power is essential. PRINCIPAL AND STUDENT V.I.P.'s: Mr. Manford Byrd, Jr., Principal, Frederick Streets, President, Student Council, Larry Alexander, Editor Towesrr, school newspaper, jo Ann Goodall, Editor Purple and White, yearbook.

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9'-'vis Alpha M. White WH' R hoden Gfiea jltaf .jwlcwe alba! glee ay W. H. Williams ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS jdlfblhg anal Sa! Athensg Capital of Culture Athens has become a sort of synonym for, and symbol of, art, culture and things of the mind generally. This is true in both Europe and America. It is true as well in other parts of the world where European-American ideas and symbols have exerted a deeply and widely felt influence. In ancient times Athens was the most creative of Greek city-states. Now the capital of all Greece, it has come to be universally regarded as the representative center of everything distinctively Greek or Hellenic-particularly during that country's Golden Age, which attained its apex about S00 B.C. It is the city of the Parthenon, the city of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, of Phidias, of Solon and Pericles of Aeschylus, of Sophocles, of Euripides, of Aristophanes and of Thucydides. It is, particularly as the representative of all ancient Greece, the birthplace of Western philosophy, science, drama, music, education, and systematic democracy. Even Homer, the founding father, as it were, of epic poetry in the European-American style, thought not a native Athenian, being a top name in ancient Greek poetry, would now be associated with Athens as the salient and symbolic creative-cultural center of Hellas. All this has given a position of supreme primacy to the shining old city built around the Acropolis. W. H. Rhoden Rome, Center of Power, Law, and Order The city of Rome was the Se-at of government and the chief city of the Roman Empire, which was the greatest achievement of ancient civilization. In spite of the fact that more than fifteen hundred years have passed since the disintegration of the Roman empire, Latin culture is still a vital force in the world today. Almost every aspect of modern life including modern technology owes much to the early foundations- that were laid in Rome many centuries ago. The greatest achievements of the Roman Empire lay in the arts of law and public administration, and in the work of skilled engineers. Long after the collapse of the empire in the West, during the fifth century, the rising nations of Europe continued to copy the Roman blueprint fo-r organizing governments, controlling commerce, and disseminating knowledge. The Latin language-the mother tongue of the Roman state--has enriched the languages of every civilized nation in existence today. We twentieth-century Americans are in-debted to the Romans for our knowledge and respect for the municipal and federal institutions we have established on this continent. The pattern for these institutions was created in ancient Rome. It was in Rome that the largest collection of art treasures was accumulated and preserved for modern man. The poet, soldier, banker, statesman, craftsman, engineer, and historian of contemporary America and Europe has received a rich legacy from the early beginnings and accomplishments of his craft in the Rome that existed a thou-sand years before the discovery of America. W. H. Williams COUNSELORS Qcontinued on page 485 anU'. .-l 1 I- Bailey R. L. Johnson J, Lee W. Lloyd H. McGovern E- Sims COUNSELOR COORDINATORS ADMINISTRATIVE AID TEACHER-NURSE A55'T- TEACHER-NURSE l i 12:02-xt:'?-'vibe-R-ae? Nm- -'--e 1 ---AA'-Wi-A' ' K..--..-es.-Ariz-1a'-w'3fSiI-0-N s 5.--.fi-1-:K ..-i'.-'-sfwrvs-rt ... ,, s areee an -- D is W i s :Is J. Walker O. Lawson B. Schneider R. Woodson-Levy E. H0rt0n M. Calloway ENGINEER COORDINATOR N.Y.C. TEACHERS J- MCG'-2tfl'iCk M. Howard J. Alexander W. Anderson M, Beard I D. Berg . - .. ..---- M ..-..-.------ .N---.-...-W .-.. - ----.,....l. mi.