Fairbury Cropsey High School - Crier Yearbook (Fairbury, IL)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION R. R. COOl 0 JOSEPH GERBER K. V. KECK E. T. LANGE W. B. FUGATE J. W. WADE, SECRETARY A. C. WATSON E. F. LAW, PRESIDENT ORGANIZATION Finance: Joe Gerber, W. B. Fucate, K. V. Keck Building, Grounds and Supplies: J. W. Wade, Joe Gerber, R. R. Gooi.d Janitor and Fuel: F!. T. Lange, R. R. Goold School Management: W. B. Fugate, K. V. Keck, E. T. Lange, J. W. Wade

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A. C. Watson Principal University of Illinois, M. S.

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THE SCHOOL New faces, new students, new teachers, new equipment, new times, a new picture of our high school, somewhat smaller than you have seen in the past but more inti- mate, more enticing, more life-like, more welcoming, a school well abreast of the times, in step with today. Since Fairbury Township High School was built some twenty years ago, more than six hundred young men and young women have passed through her halls, di- ploma in hand, into the world which lies beyond the wall, into a friendly world which welcomed them with open arms and a firm clasp of the hand, into a cruel world which threw them back and crushed them beneath her iron heel and broke their spirits and bruised their bodies and destroyed their ideals. It was not without sacrifice and unselfish effort that our school was built but who would not now say, who could not now say, that it was a worthwhile investment which each year returns to the community, in the enriched lives of well-balanced and well-rounded future citizens, far, far more than it asks. Nothing has ever cost less nor been more efficiently administered than our public system of secondary schools, a tribute to the foresight, the vision, and the unfettered courage of a few public- spirited men.