Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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Joyous activity, is the keynote of West Frankfort High School. High school students of F. C. H. S. know the full meaning of a well proportioned program of work time and play time. After four years of participation in such a constructive program, a sense of responsibility and individuality has been developed in addition to the attaining of a scholastic record. Such a combination of qualities tend to produce good citizens. F. C. H. S. has a wide range of extra-curricular activities to offer its students—such as football, basketball, track, boxing, wrestling, dramatics, music and art, and many club activities. West Frankfort, the coal-bin of the nation! The mineral wealth of our community makes this phrase a fitting epithet, and we take pardonable pride in pointing out Orient Number Two as the largest coal mine in the world. The coal deposits give rise to our basic industries, but our city is notable in other ways. It is the shopping center of Southern Illinois. It has a Lions Club, a Rotary Club, and a Junior and Senior Woman's Club which show the active interest taken here in civic affairs. West Frankfort is the home of the Egyptian Choral Club which is making available to Southern Illinois many things of cultural value. West Frankfort as a community is steadily improving and as the nation's coal-bin certainly is not a has been. The faculty of F. C. H. S. is among the best in this section of the state. Thirteen of the thirty-three teachers have their Master's Degrees completed and at least three others will finish the work for the Master's Degree this summer. Many of our teachers are doing graduate work at the present time. Most of the teachers have been teaching in this school for several years. Only two are teaching their first year while two others are teaching their seventeenth year in this school. The average tenure for teachers is seven years. This fact alone is a splendid commendation for the quality of service being rendered by our faculty. Some twelve hundred students fill the classrooms and throng the corridors of our beautiful high school building which was constructed originally for a much smaller number of students. None are so proud as to boast that F. C. H. S. students generally are superior to students of other high schools in the state, nor are any so humble as to admit that they are in any way inferior to the students of any other high school. They are young, vivacious, and eager for success and happiness in the life which lies before them. The reputation of F. C. H. S. rests upon the activities, accomplishments, and products of our active students. PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEO f

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OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION • Otis Stone. Born in Saline County, Sept. 10, 1884 He has taught school and Business College, has been employed as county clerk of Saline County, has spent several years supervising a farm, and later became a funeral director which is his present occupation. He married Etta Baker. They have two sons. He has been on the school board for nine years. • R. A. Swofford. Born in West Frankfort, 1889. He attended school at Ewing College. He entered the hardware business as a young man and has continued this business to the present time. He married Buelah Adelsberger. They have four children. He has been one of the members of the high school board for nine years. • Leo McDonald. Born in 1896, at Golconda, Illinois, where he received his education. He has been employed in the grocery and feed business which is his present occupation. He married Goldia Hamilton. They have one child. He has been on the high school board for two years. His hobbies are hunting and fishing. • Arlie Murphy. Born near West Frankfort, Illinois, July 15, 1894 He attended Ewing College, and S. I. T. C. at Carbondale, 111. After teaching for several years, he became employed in the office of County Clerk at Benton, 111., where he is employed at the present time. His favorite recreations are hunting and fishing. He has been on the school board for two years. • J. Will Howell. Born Dec 28, 1891, on a southern Illinois farm He attended Rush College, Fayette county; Ewing College and University of Illinois. After finishing his school career he taught in grade and high school for ten years. Later he became a banker and is now employed as an insurance agent. He has been on the High School board one year. He married Leoda L. Davis of Vandalia, 111. He has six children. His hobbies are hunting and fishing. ■ THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE PEOPLE THE