Foreman High School - Foremanual Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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OUR SCHOOL It has been a happy experience to be identified again with the Foreman High School and watch it grow during the past year--Foreman, that Miss Lillian Tobin started so well, that Mr. Herbert C. Hansen gave new life to and that Mr. Robert G. Jeffrey devoted himself to unceasingly. The success of a school depends upon its product and its product consists of students trained to lead happy, proficient, useful and unselfish lives. To obtain this product a good faculty is essential and constitutes the most important part of a school. No school ever accomplished much without spirit. The spirit of a school is not impersonal. It is the collective mind of the men and women-the faculty and the principal. This group contributes its own personality to the larger personality of the school. As this group is, so is the school. What is the personality of the ideal teacher? He has the rare quality of inspiring his students to desire to gain all the knowledge and understanding of the subject and not to be satisfied with a lesser accomplishment. His students are thrilled by his zeal and sincerity and they catch the contagion of his per- sonality. He is an excellent example of the teacher whose infiuence is personal and not dependent on the teaching of a popular subject. He is honest in the presentation of views for and against an interpretation and leads his students to form their own conclusions on the basis of evidence. He teaches them to think. He is always ready to meet his students, early and late. And, happily, there are many such teachers at Foreman. Sometimes at Foreman the need of traditions is profoundly felt for it is still a school in its infancy. But day by day traditions are being made. Lead- ership with all its resulting responsibilities is being encouraged. Honest effort, scholarship and culture are the ideals. While being young is a disadvantage in some ways, it is an asset in others. There is a zest in giving form and char- acter to an institution that can hardly be shared by those who inherit what others created. It is hoped that the graduates of 1937 realize as they leave Foreman, that it is only the ability to do something that makes a human being of value to himself and his fellows. William Hawley Smith says that he who can only tell what someone else has done is a very small factor in civilization. A citizen is of value to society and the state, only as he has the ability to help society and the state to be better, because he is a member of them. And whoever fails to do this is a burden. The city cannot afford to make burdens for itself to carry. It must get returns for the money and effort expended in trying to make good citizens. It might be well for the students to remember always that a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge, and that he who would bring back inspiration from viewing works of art, must first carry inspiration within himself. And, lastly, abundant good feeling and high hopes go forth with the graduates that all the fine work of the school may bear the finest fruit and that each student may realize his highest dreams. i c0c2CR,.laM1 wi

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Dedication Deep within our hearts glows a sincere appreciation ot the ettorts ot our principal, Miss Nellie F. Ryan, to pilot our ship over the stormy waves ot school lite, and to take us safely on flood tide to our first port of call. From there we shall take our several ways, heedtul ot her advice and timely guidance. As a token of our gratitude we, the graduating classes ot l937, dedicate to her this For- rnanual, a record oi the last happy lap under her direction. I 4 I

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Sweeping In TI-IE EBI With the surge of students entering Foreman at 8:00 o'clock and gaining momentum till 8:30, the day begins. At 8:45 the tide washes into every room and the business of learning begins. One halting place speaks of the wonders of the animal world: another of the world of literature, with its brooding over all the problems of life and its crea- tion of beauty. The chemistry laboratory deals with atoms and ions, with test tube and flasks. with acids and alkalies. Now the tide is awash in the shops--electric, wood. print, etc., with the students handling machines, drawing them, study- ing them. and managing their operations. That fundamentals of all machinery, science. and busi- ness may be more readily understood, in sweeps the tide to the mathematics rooms, absorbing theories and principles. I6I ,,.,Y. . .-V....,-V-e-,-, -..--,T-M ......-m..,-,.4. .a.-,..,,,-,Q-1-1--T.e-,j-1,--'F - -- arm, A-....-Y-- 1-, -f---f,,.-...-va --Q . as . , ,Hi .-T-.--W ---M-.-