Estherville High School - Ho Lo Co Yearbook (Estherville, IA)

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. ADMINISTRATIQN

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THANK VCU By setting aside this page may we ex- press to you, Mr. Bump, and the other faculty members, our sincere apprecia- tion for the assistance you have given the Ho-Lo-Co staff Your experience and guidance have helped us to make this a successful yearbook. I E l .,.-..,.. ' 1 - if Ti - ' if ' ' 'WW 4

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N. E. Demoney Superintendent liven hetiore Pearl Harbor the Estherville school system began to gear itself to a war economy. lf one should refer to Estherville educational hulletins issued before we became enmeshed in tl1e most terrihle ot' all world wars, he would find the following pro- grams among many others adopted and put into action: expansion ot Olll' intlustrial arts department into .1 general shop program. addition of .1 1'oc.1tionaI agritulture department. provision for a varied L'UFI'lCLIlIU for .1 less homogeneous school population with a wider range of abilities, interests and .1ptitutles, expansion of :1 more thorough physical etlucation and recreation program for youth, promotion of Ll more rapid pupil growth in mathematics. and expansion of our science program, Neither did we wait until tl1e end ol Wforld XXf.1r II hetore we began to look forward to peatehtime prohlems. Wfhile the war was in progress numerous high school students were assisted in continuing their high school education while in one of the armed Services. At the close of the war many veterans returned, and we welcomed them in our atempt to aid high school and junior college students to adjust themselves to study procedures forgotten for tl1e moment while occupied in the war activities on the sea, in the air. and in the fox holes. Wfe helieve tl1at if the educational system of America and other countries can develop the minds capable of producing the atomic homh, we can and will produce tl1e minds capable of solving peace-time prohlems, Y N. E. DI5MoN15Y