Forest Lake High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Lake, MN)

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Floyd W. Cohoes—Our high school principal — he is known to all as a fair-minded friend to students and teachers alike. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Cloud Teachers College and spent one year doing graduate work at the University of Minnesota. Erwin L. Davis — Acting as assistant high school principal — he can be found listening sympatheti- cally to students’ guidance and personal problems. He received his Bachelor of Science degree at St. Cloud Teachers College and later went on to receive his Master of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. administration George J. Sedlacek—As elementary school principal — he is found solving administrative problems con- nected with the grade school system in this dis- trict. He received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Minnesota and then went on to secure his Master of Arts degree there.

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Each Forester is a chapter in the history of Forest Lake High School. It records the significant events of the very recent past in an attempt to preserve and perpetuate school life as we have known it. As the future becomes the present and the present the past, as time takes its inex- orable toll, as memories dim and recollections fade, such a record as this will help us go back in fancy to the time “when all the world was young, lad, and all the trees were green, and every goose a swan, lad, and every lass a queen.” Perhaps it will help us recapture the uncertainty of the days when talk of a new building seemed just another round of wishful thinking, the pride we felt when the community faced up to its problems and took determined steps to solve them, the excitement and the confusion of digging and building, tearing down and revamping, and the thrill of getting lost in a building which seemed to have changed as drastically and as suddenly as Cinderella’s pumpkin. I hope that it will do more than jog our memories. Experiences like these should make us think. For our school is a great deal more than an impressive mass of masonry. It is a tribute to youth and to faith in the future. Don’t let the older folks kid you. They talk a lot about juvenile delinquency, about how much worse kids are these days than they used to be. And then they spend a million dollars to show what they really believe. The Good Book says that where your treasure is, there shall your heart be also. Make no mistake about it: this schoolhouse was built for you. A lot of people thought you were worth it. They wanted you to have a chance to become a full-fledged member of the well- known human race, with some appreciation of the age-old pageant of man. some knowledge of yourself and of the incredibly complicated world you have inherited. This building shouts, “Kids are important. Young folks are the future. Give them opportunities and they will use them.” Use yours. In time to come, as you leaf through this book, chuckling here, shaking your head sadly there, may you recall best of all a community’s faith in its young people, remember gratefully what it meant to you and to many others you have known, and resolve to bet your million as wisely when the occasion calls for it. J. A. Hughes, Superintendent

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Nancy Frank . . . Bachelor of Arts, Hamline University . . . English. Thea Horne . . . Bachelor of Arts, Augsburg College . . . Librarian. Wallace Kennedy . . . Bache- lor of Arts, University of Wisconsin; Bachelor of Sci- ence, Mankato T. C. . . . English . . . Speech. faculty — english Phyllis Paulson . . . Bachelor of Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth Branch. English . . . Social Studies. Barbara Quill . . . Bachelor of Arts, Luther College, De- corah, Iowa . . . English . . . Speech Assistant. Paul Rafferty . . . Bachelor of Arts, St. Thomas . . . Eng- lish . . . Latin . . . Journalism