Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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ADMINISTRATION

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History of F C. H. S. The Falls City High School is this year celebrating its golden anniversary. Fifty years have passed since the first class of four students graduated from the High School, each one as proud of his class and as proud of his diploma as each member of the Class of 1930, with its membership of seventy-four, is of the record he has made. The first class was graduated from the old Central Building which was built in 1877 and was used as a high school until the year of 1893 when the North School was completed. The class of 1894 with a membership of seventeen was the first class to graduate from this building and boasted the largest number of members up to this time. The class of 1898 has the distinction of being composed entirely of girls with eleven members. The class of 1902 had only five members. From this time the classes gradually increased in membership until we have the magnificent class of today. The Junior High School was completed in time for the graduation of the Class of 1915 with twenty-two members. The class of 1927 with seventy-one members, next to the largest in the fifty years, was the first class to graduate from the present High School Building. During the past fifty years, forty-seven classes, including the Class of 1930, have completed the course of the High School with a total membership of 1,215 of which 425 were boys and 790 girls. According to the best record available sixty-two graduates arc deceased. The school has turned out twelve college professors, fourteen lawyers, five bankers, four physicians, six journalists, two ministers, two dentists, nine engineers, one poet, one cartoonist, four missionaries and one graduate, a member of the Class of 1887, who was a member of the United States Congress, besides numbers of public school teachers and representative business men and women. The fiftieth anniversary of the first Commencement will be appropriately observed May 23, 1930. The Alumni extend greetings to the Class of 1930 and welcome them to the ranks of the association. Lillian Dorrington Fisher ’94.

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»« 4i£ A. B. Gelwick, A. M. Superintendent The aim of our present day public schools is to prepare the student for life with a definite conception of leadership, and to give specific and fundamental training for the several professions. Since the public school is the most democratic of all institutions, the work of the Falls City High School is directed to the development of the student’s mental powers and it aims to give him his bearings in the universe of nature and in the world of men. I congratulate the Class of 1930 upon the successful completion of their high school work. May succeeding years bring you success in your chosen fields of labor. Sincerely yours, A. B. Gelwick. A. W. Starkebacm A. B.. Principal To the Class of 1930: Commencement returns with the regularity of the seasons. Though the graduating class changes from year to year, yet in the larger things of life each class is the same. In the profound depths, die hopes and ideals of youth are ever the same. Some of you will go to higher learning; I wish you a fruitful college To those of you who will pursue other activity, I wish you continued success. Sincerely yours, A. W.