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We Dedicate Our Yearbook to Mr. Southard, our late principal There is a rather unobtrusive looking door on the South side of the lobby of Freeport High School. Behind this door there is a modest little office where a man came to work early in the morning and left late in the afternoon. Then one day in December of 1965 he didn't come to school, where he was to conduct an examination, for he died the night before. We of Freeport High School walk by the unobtrusive door in the lobby a little slower now. As we do, we remember our immeasurable loss and we feel the aching void left by the passing of our principal, Mr. John Wesley Southard. It is more than just a principal, however, that we have lost. Each one of us, as an individual, has lost a sincere friend; but Freeport High School, as an aggregate, has lost an entire aura of warmth, interest, concern, dedication and boundless enthusiasm, which ceaselessly radiated from him. Mr. Southard's record of accomplishments is commensurate with his outstanding personal characteristics. In 1922, he graduated from F.H.S. as the first four-letter man in the history of our school. After attending college at Springfield he returned to F.H.S. as a physical education teacher. From there, he worked himself up to the high position of principal of our school. We must not overlook the fact that Mr. Southard undertook the formidable task of supervising the successful execution of the various regulations and policies of our school, every day for the last fifteen and a half years of his life. During Mr. Southard's administration, a multitude of new institutions were added. A few outstanding examples are the commencement of Honors and Accelerated classes, programmed mathematics, an expanded business program, and the modern and fully equipped language laboratory. Through all of this, the already high standard of education at F.H.S. has reached even greater heights. And now he is gone,- or should we modify this and say that Mr. Southard has departed from us only in a physical sense. We can no longer talk to him about a personal problem, nor can we reach out to receive our diplomas from him on Graduation Day, but his accomplishments, his honor, and his moral strength will live on with us. It is for this reason that we, the Class of 1966, dedicate our yearbook to Mr. John Wesley Southard. 6
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