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

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inSID€ OUR SCHOOL arc nrmny pcoplc DOinG VARIOUS iriT€R€STinG THIIIGS AS SHOUJn BY It has long been the policy of Frankfort Community High School to offer students more than the bare essentials necessary to fit them to enter college or university. We make an effort to give each student an opportunity to take part in some activity or project of a creative sort, informally conducted, with activities centered around student interest. These groups have been called Clubs. They are not clubs in the social sense, however. They might well be called Project Groups. One group may be preparing the weekly edition of the school paper, another is at work on a musical number, still another group is taking a photograph of our building, etc. We hope, through this medium of outside or extracurricular activity, to give to our students a certain interest which marks the difference between a successful citizen and an unsuccessful one. 6 THE REDBIRD

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The new courses made possible by the new addition to our building can be offered only through additional revenue which may come to our district through State Aid. Last year our school received more than sixty thousand dollars from the State for current expenses. Bills in the legislature as this book goes to press, if made law will provide permanent State Aid to our school on the same basis and in approximately the same amounts. This will mean that more than half of the total revenue for operating the school will come from the State Distributive Fund. Not only will this make possible the offering of the new courses but it is the only means of maintaining the educational program which our school has offered in the past. With this additional revenue the community has a right to expect from our school an educational program second to none. TH€ BUILD6RS OF 19 3 9 5

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Many of those extracurricular activities that were established some years ago in the West Frankfort Community High School continue to function and are looked upon as permanent or traditional high school activities. Although not popular with the students at their inception, the clubs are now much sought after and respected by the students. Some of the older clubs are the Hi-Y, Girl Reserve, G. A. A. and Student Patrol. Membership to such clubs is often restricted by certain requirements which the student must meet before being accepted. Such demands as regular attendance, student participation and scholarship tend toward a greater studious effort on the part of the would- be member. Thus we have a better student, club and school. SOm€ Of TH€ R6DBIRD STAFF OF 1939