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

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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

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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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imPORTfiriT PARTS Of TH€ PICTUR6 AR€... OUR BOARD Of €DUCATIOn OUR PRiriCIPAL AnD HIS ASSIST A PITS In any community the school is and rightfully should be not only an institution for the education of the youth but an institution for adult education also. It should serve as a meeting place for various groups within the community needing educational facilities of various types. True, the district cannot afford to pay the cost incurred by these many additional uses of the building. Also, the school has a right to demand that the building be treated with the proper respect and care by those who use it. It has not been the policy of our board to try to make a profit out of renting the school for community activities. It has been the intention of the board to charge only enough to meet the actual cost incurred by the additional activity. We want our school to serve the community in its many needs and expect to grant its facilities to be used for any worthwhile activities at a minimum rental charge. 8 THE REDBIRD