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

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THE CRIER FOR 1936 Compiled and Published by THE CRIER STAFF Supervised by H. E. Shaw and A. C. Watson at Fairbury Township High School Fairbury, Illinois

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FROM THE LIBRARY OF OF THE CLASS OF FAIRBURY TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL

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INTRODUCTION More than ever before in all our history is an adequate education necessary. The increasing complexity of modern existence demands that each young person entering thereupon be pos- sessed of the faculties, skills, and attributes known to be fundamentally important. No longer does the parent, the friendly craftsman, the purposeful relative provide an opportunity for youth to find its place in the social order. There is today but one institution engaged in this kind of activity, the school. Its importance, therefore, cannot be measured in gold but rather in the human values which it creates. Only those who seek the light shall find it for it lies through the gate and beyond the wall and it is the key to unlimited happiness. Without it we plod wearily onward, slo 1 sinking, slowly dying, but with it comes new the gate! Come, open