Gallia County High School - Echo Yearbook (Gallipolis, OH)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Dr. C. E. HOLZER, President ARTHUR MILLER, Vice-President CHAS. YEAUGER, Secretary MRS. LEO C. BEAN J. W. MILLER K. R. VERMILLION, Superintendent

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nfrnffa1 ,Several years ago, a little girl drove by Gallia Academy High School with her father. She was a stranger in town. Several years of her life had been spent in small, coal-mining towns, because her father was a coal operator. She had a thirst for learning which could be gratified in a town of this sort, but her desire for com- panionship with boys and girls of her own class could not be gratified, because she was not allowed to be intimate with the miners' children. Consequently, she looked forward to the day when she would go away to high school. She little thought when she admired the builldinig that day ffor our building and campus is attractivej that some day she would be a -student within its walls. In HER high school she had dreamed of the boys and girls that she would be- come acquainted with, of the classes with their little rivalries, their mottoes, their colors and their aicms, of the -sports in which she could participate, of the languages that she could study, of the school music and glee clubs, and of the different con- tests between schools. In short, her's was a model high school. By the time she was ready to enter high school in Gallipolis, she had learned, of course, that Gallia Academy High School could not meet all her requirements, but, nevertheless, there was still some of the attraction felt that day as she chanced to drive past. 'Dhe once little girl has become acquainted with the school from which she is to graduate. She has found some friends, she has quenched some of that thirst for knowledge, she has found SOME of that class competition, but has she found all that she could find in her high school to make her proud of it? She has failed to find that deep, abiding love andpride of school pervadinig every class room and to be found in the spirit of every student. Why do we have, if you will permit the expression, to nag the students to attend the basketball games, coax them to join the debates and drop them from the clusb rolls for failure to at- tend? Is this the school spirit that when seen in other schools by some loyal mem- bers makes us almost ashamed? Why has there been such a feeling of estrangement between teacher and pupil in late years? Isn't it part-ly due to the fact that many of us do not desire to learn, are not in sympathy with what the teacher is trying to do? A successful teacher is in the profession because he is irresistably drawn into it and loves it not for the financial compensation, because that is small in comparison to what most of them could get in other work. The teacher, who first made a firm impression on the little girl, is one who has inspired hundreds of students in her teaching career in. this school. Students have left her to become highly successful men and women. Her influence is of the kind that brings out the best in her pupils. However, they do not always give her the credit due her until they have lived a while in life's hard school. This year she has been called to act as our principal, and her whole purpose has been to make the high school one that would meet the requirements of the little girl. Now it is up to you, students, to prove that you can compare favorably with students of other schools, that you can compete with them, that you will support your teams, that you will excel in intellectual feats, that you will be proud of your school and your teachers. When you have done these things, the little 'girl's ideal high school will have become a reality. Page Seven

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