Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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To the members of the Class of 1919 who are responsible for the publication of the Orange and Black this issue is most respectfully dedicated by the pupils of the Senior and Junior High Schools who enthusiastically and unanimously supported the paper. By the Members of the Staff.

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COMMENCEMENT NUMBER OF THE ORANGE AND BLACK JUNE 6, 1919 GRAND JUNCTION HIGH SCHOOL

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WARD DERRYBBRRY. “Wardie. Class President. Virtue—Leader of men—and women. Demerit- Married. Favorite pastime Leins President. MILDRED NELSON. “Mip.” Class Secretary. Virtue She's Basket-Ball captain. Demerit—Reckless. Favorite pastime Cutting classes. Some Work for Parent-Teachers’ Association of H. S. By MRS. R. L. MAG1LL, President of the Parent-Teachers’ Association. The great war has revealed many deficiencies in the U. S., but none more appalling than those along educational lines. In a country where stable government depends upon an intelligent citizenship, the education of the masses becomes a necessity, for it is the bulwark of the nation. How strong that bulwark is may be judged when we know that there are states in the Union with 25 per cent or more of the adult population illiterate. The Parent-Teachers’ Association of the G. J. H. S. does not undertake to make itself responsible for the ignorance of the whole nation, but it should concern itself with the preventable ignorance of this community, and most cases of ignorance are preventable. It cannot attempt to say when a person is educated, but it can presume to say that he is certainly not wholly educated when he can only read and write and figure a little. The H. S. education was planned to raise the intellectual normal and make our youth self-reliant, dependable, thinking men and women, capable of citizenship in a great republic. How far we are reaching that ideal in this community may be judged by the fact that 50 per cent of our pupils are lost to the H. S. in transit from the seventh to the twelfth grades. The H. S. was not intended to meet the needs of the favored few, but for all the youth of our land. Something must be vitallv wrong somewhere when only half of our boys and girls are receiving the benefits of a full H. S. education. Either our curriculum does not fit the needs of the masses, or else public opinion is seriously lacking as to the real need of such education. And. in either case, it presents a problem worthy the greatest mentality of our community to solve. Perhaps our H. S. curriculum might be revised with some profit. We certainly do need to vitalize the work in the lives of our youth. Who would presume to say that work done for the world along classical lines is any more important or valuable than that done along other useful lines? We all know that public opinion does need a powerful stimulant to arouse it to the necessity and desirability of higher education. If our Parent-Teachers’ Association could study some of the causes that are now standing in the way of many boys and girls receiving a H. S. education and remove those causes, it would be accomplishing a great work for this community. The Parent-Teachers’ Association has a greater mission than merely that parents and teachers should become better acquainted and understand each others’ tribulations. Neither teachers nor parents need the sympathy of each other, but they do need intelligent study together of these problems that must be met if our H. S. becomes the power it can become. Grand Junction cannot afford to spend the thousands of dollars it does spend on equipment and teaching force when it could be getting greater results than a 50 per cent graduating class shows. It is up to the Parent-Teachers’ Association to help make our H. 8. a greater power in our community than it now is. Just how is the problem. GENEVIEVE HOUSE. “Jennie. Virtue—Affected. Demerit—Innocent physiognomy. Favorite pastime—Vamping Arthur. Education a Complex Process By R. E. TOPE. Superintendent of City Schools. Education is a natural process. The charm of child life is in its naturalness. Life is strained and uneasy when it becomes in any sense artificial. For a long time, the schools have been great offenders in restraing children by artificial surroundings and formal practices in the school room. To put education close to life is the one phrase that expresses the basic principle of the new education. When the school first receives the child, conditions should be as nearly as possible like the best type of home. From this on. an attempt must be made to respect the stages of development of the child as he passes through school, and allow him to unfold in Nature’s way. To the last three years, or the Senior High School, is left the intensive work of public school education. At the close of the course the pupil should be