Grand Blanc High School - Echo Yearbook (Grand Blanc, MI)

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Grand Blanc Twp. Unit High School Main Building. Cur High School of Cherished Memories Our school on the Dixie is a ten-months' center of life away from home for all the five-to-eighteen-ers in the Township. We come by bus and bike, by foot and Ford, each school-day morning at eight-thirty. Early arrival of some is an opportunity for study or reference Work, or conference on plans for cr game, meeting, or trip: for others it means only a quick chat while clogging the halls for the incoming rush, Each bus brings a crowd which surges to the lockers, the homerooms, and after bells, announcements over the P.A. system and more bells, the classes start. 5 ,M , If The Annex

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The TORCH, symbolic ot the light ot education shining into a darkness ot illiteracy and ignorance, has forever been the emblem ot learning and develop- ment. Through its shining rays pass the World's scientists, scholars, and teachers, who add to its radiance and depth ot penetration. As a silent monitor of liberty, the TORCH ,held high by the arm ot the Statue ot Liberty, Watches the World and its struggles. lts never ending vigil inspires this country and other free lands to preserve that freedom so dear to all people. Since the days ot ancient man, the torch has been regarded as a beacon ot tradition and opportunity. lust as prehistoric man used its light to illuminate the Way in darkness, so we today make use of its rays to brighten the paths of opportunity leading to our ultimate goal- success. The TQRCH-a symbol ot education, liberty, opportunity, and tradi- tion-We leave to you. To you We give the challenge and prayer- Be yours to hold it high,

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.1 l l During the nineteen years Donald G. Batchelor has taught in the Grand Blanc High School, he has been both teacher and friend to the students coming under his tutelage. As a part of his coaching activities he has instilled high ideals of team play, sportsmanship, and character by Word and deed into the hearts of the budding athletes in the gym and on the playing field: as a part of his classroom instruction he has endeavor ed to develop a feeling of responsibility for one's own behavior and a sense of honor, insisting that these be learned the hard way of experience if the pupil will do it in no other way. Because youth, untrained, helpless and unprepared for life, must be enriched by friendships, molded by learning, held in check by firm counsel, strengthened by activity, and urged onward by an inspired leadership, We dedicate this 1948 issue of The ECHG to Mr. Batchelor who has done all these things for Grand Blanc youth,