Forest Park High School - Forester Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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IN MEMORIAM Mr C-lenn Cwens

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HISTORY OF The hustory of Forest Park Hugh School now extends over a peruod of 30 years The earluest records of Baltumore Cutys first coeducatuonal hugh school actually extend back fur ther than that for the first constructuon of what was to be the Northwestern Junuor Senuor Hugh School was begun un January 1923 when the cuty was untent upon umprovung and uncreasung uts educatuonal faculutues It was completed un Febru ary 1924 for an untended capacuty of 2000 but had over 800 extra students when classes began un September of that year Thus was caused by the fact that the boys and gurls who were to compose the student body of both the senuor and uunuor hugh departments were allowed to transfer from any school un the cuty llt later became necessary to establush boundary lunes whuch restructed the area from whuch students could be admutted l Over one hundred teachers were assugned to the buuldung from other schools The school opened wuth no establushed tradutuons to follow ut had to form uts own tradutuons and much of the first few years was devoted to thus task A phulosophy was adopted wuth the aum of producung well rounded students through two programs currucular uncludung all classroom subuects and extra currucular uncludung athletuc and non athletuc organuza tuons The currucula of Forest Park unclude an academuc course for those who plan to attend college a commercual course for those who expect to enter the busuness world and a technucal course for those boys who are unterested un mechanucs The regular classroom work us augmented and coordunated by weekly assemblues largely arranged for student partucupatuon and by the advusory peruod a bruef report peruod orugunally at the end of the day but now conducted un the mornung Students at that tume were allowed to belong to one athletuc and one non athletuc group lThus restructuon no longer exustsl Durung the first year there were no varsuty sports although a few representatuve teams dud play unofficual games wuth other schools Stress was laud on untramural athletucs by both the Boys and Gurls Athletuc Assocuatuons untul the second year when varsuty sports started uncludung football basketball track and baseball for the boys and field hockey and basket ball for the gurls As the school grew un strength and promu nence other varsuty events were added such as uce hockey lacrosse volleyball tennus fencung, swummung The motto whuch was adopted was Sports for all and all for Sports An athletuc letter of green and gray was desugned as an award to all students who had earned the requured number of pounts Munor letters numerals rubbons and medals were also cwarded un recognutuon of partucupatuon un athletucs Although sports were the first of the extra currucular actuv utues others soon assumed equal umportance Sometume durung the first school year a plan was conceuved to unclude student partucupatuon un government modeled after that of our na THE SCHOOL tuonal democracy ln the sprung of 1930 the government un uts present form was establushed as an outgrowth of the Stu dent councul or Presudents Club An elected Student Presu dent and Vuce Presudent head the organuzatuon and serve as leaders of the student body The first Presudent Herbert Brown was unvested at the first of the Inaugural Assemblues At that tume he was presented wuth an elm rod by each Stu dent Representatuve and the axe of authoruty by the Pruncupal of the school These rods symboluc of strength mught, and harmony are bound together wuth leather thongs a sugn of unuty and cooperatuon after the manner of the ancuent Roman fasces The axe whuch us bound un the center represents the power and authoruty whuch belong to the Student Presudent but has a blunt edge to serve as a remunder that hus power cannot be used harmfully There have sunce been forty sux student presudents each of whom has added somethung to the betterment of the school and uts student government The executuve of a government does not work alone h must have the support and the help of other groups The first of these the Senate, us comprused of one student elected from each half year class The other the Board of Student Repre sentatuves uncludes one elected member from each homeroom class ln 1927 the Student Court was added to the system to uudge and punush all offenders agaunst school regulatuons lt had a Chuef Justuce and sux Assocuates appounted by the Presudent The last body to be formed only as recently as 1942 was the Cabunet whuch serves un an advusory capacuty class the Presudent of each of the honor clubs and the Chuef Justuce Perhaps the most umportant partucupants un student government are the student officers who are responsuble for helpung keep order un the corrudors the cafeterua and the campus Promunent among the organuzatuons of the school are the honor clubs whuch were organuzed wuth the purpose of brung ung together outstandung boys and gurls to secure a unuted support for the leaders of the school These unclude the Boys and Gurls Leaaers Clubs the Ethucal lboys sportsl and Varsuty lgurls sportsl Clubs the Opportunuty Club the Booster Club and the Four Square Club These groups furnush opportunutues for servuce wuthun the school such as coachung hall and locker dutues lost and found and support of athletuc events as well as generally mauntaunung the hugh udeals and tradutuons of Forest Park Other very actuve groups unclude those whose purpose us the furtherance of specual unterests such as musuc drama art luterature shopwork photography scuence and many others These clubs orugunally numbered eleven, but have uncreased wuth the growth of the school untul forty of them are functuonung today The first senuors were organuzed as a class un October 1924 Contunued on page 8 ' I I . i . . . . 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MR GLENN OWENS When Forest Park flrst opened ITS doors educators and members of the communIty alIke questIoned the advIsabIlIty of InauguratIng the new coeducatIon plan It was evIdent from the start that a prIncIpal of un usual stamIna courage and wIsdom would be needed to dIrect the admInIstratIon of the revolutIonary school Such a man was Glenn Owens Mr Owens foresIght enabled hIm to see that an effluent school could not be buIlt In one or two years accordlngly he patIently laId out the plans for a school whose program would be a model for all others In the cIty Choosmg an expert faculty as hIs foundatIon Mr Owens developed those actIvItIes whIch he felt were of vItal Importance to hIgh school students He fervently belIeved In student partIcIpatIon In government and constantly aIded and encouraged Foresters to form specIal Interest clubs conduct sports competItIon and elect student officers ContInuIng to emphaslze the Importance of an extra currIcular program thIs same man orIgInated the Boys Leaders club to CSSlSf the admInIstratIon of the school He also InstItuted the advIsory perIod whereIn the members of each homeroom SECTION are able to dISCUSS school and world problems Repeatedly he showed hIs Interest In developIng the character as well as the Intellect of hIs students The love and respect whIch he won from Foresters even after hIs retlrement from fhIS school In 1935 were eloquent testImony to hIs thoughtful guIdance and everlastIng enthuslasm Although Glenn Owens left Forest Park hIs basIc Ideas contlnued to shape the organIzatIon of the school HIs death on December 24 1954 was therefore a great loss to every member of the faculty and student body both to those who knew hIm personally and to those who had only heard of hIs tremendous contrIbutIons We wIll forever be Indebted to hIm for enrIchIng our school and our lIves we wIll forever remember and respect hum even as he forever remembered us The true memorIal to Glenn Owens IS Forest Park HIgh School . I I I .. . . . . I . . . I 1 , . 1 1 - ' I .. , , . .. . . 1 . 1 - I I I I . . . . . F , .