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

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To Mr. Otis Stone who retired from the Board of Education this Spring after serving nine years, five of which were served as president, we respectfully dedicate this volume of the RED BIRD. Mr. Stone's keen understanding of the place of education as || the very foundation of a democratic government, of the func- jl tion of a school within a community, of the problems and If needs of the youth of a community, and his steadfast deter- 31 mination to place the welfare of the student above all other |f considerations in connection with the school, mark him as a || real friend of education in general, and of F. C. H. S. in par- II ticular. We are sorry to lose him from the Board of Education. If ■ ■- dedicate we dedicate we dedicate we dedicate ■■

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The Senior Class of 1938 and the RED BIRD Staff take pleasure in presenting this volume to you. In it you will find an honest effort to fairly portray our school life in word and picture. Since activity is composed of the people who take part, their work and their play, we have divided school life as portrayed here into: 0 THE PEOPLE Q THEIR DEEDS Q THEIR DIVERSIONS J FOREWORD FOREWORD FOREWORD FOREWORD FOft

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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