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

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H. RICHARD SYDENHAM Dickie-Bird. Editor in Chief. A. How ran a poor editor put a good grind about himself in his own hook ? P. He’s a talker and needs no questioning before he speaks. Richard Sydenham, our Editor in Chief Who has in himself a firm belief His wisdom along scientific lines Sparkles and glitters and brilliantly shines. TALITIIA MONAGHAN Tally-ho Society Editor A. Has she not always treasures who has friends? P. She makes the very best of everything. Thinks the very best of everybody. Talitha Monaghan, one of ttie staff Who does her part with a cheerful laugh If ever by chance you’ll need a friend You ran rely on her until the end It is needless to suggest that a lot of problems would be solved that would be a relief to the home and the community in general. There are many arguments in favor of such a change in the school program and there are no serious objections. Teachers can work the full year and be much better off physically and financially than if they only worked nine months. Students can go to school tin; year round and do much better than if they hove three months off duty with nothing but idle time on their hands. Institutions of learning have found it to be their experience that their largest attendance is during the summer quarter. A very large percentage of the teachers of the city schools in this country go to school in the summer months anyway. It might be said ttiat in this plan of organization promotions would be made quarterly instead of semi-annually, and that pupils and teachers could lake a quarter off at any lime that they chose to do so. It is singular that the school has made the great success that it has when we consider that it closes its doors for a third of the year. It is too big an investment to stand idle for so much if tin year. Any other business would go into bankruptcy in a short iime if it closed its doors for such a long vacation. Most parents would be glad to have their children in school during I tie summer and teachers have always been anxious to w rk the year round and receive a year’s compensation that is commensurate with the training and expert service required in g»od sch»«1 systems. Education, a Complex Process (By Prof. R. E. Tope.) Education in the school of today is a wonderfully complex process. The school must assume the full responsibility of training pupils in the process of efficient living. The school is simply the form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated ttiat will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the nation and to use his powers for practical social ends. Since the school is the institution that primarily directs the complete educational program of the boys and girls from the time they become six years of age until they complete the curriculum that is provided for them, it finds itself face to face with a big task. It must undertake to operate a complete program for tin training of all the young people of the community along physical, intellectual, social, vocational, civic and moral lines. The school has a complete physical program al work. It begins with the play games of the primary, grades and runs along systematically to tlie skilled team games of Ihe advanced pupils in high school. Parallel to the play and game program, the pupils in school are given systematic instruction in hygiene. Very definite standards of endurance, vigor, strength, speed, and health are established for all the pupils. The second step in I he school program is lhat of training the intellect of every boy and girl in the community. Pupils vary in their capacity to learn, hut Ihe school undertakes just as completely as possible to individualize instruction so as to develop in a rational manner every individual in the school. There arc very definite standards established for the accomplishments attained in each grade and each subject in the school program. School work is in no way a cramming process. The school methods which are being followed today are Ihe result of scientific study. The whole work of the school has been placed upon a professional basis and a visit to the typical schoolrooms of our syslem of schools will show lhat the work of I he school is in Ihe hands of people who are technically trained for the very definite tasks they have to perform. There is a technique of study, a technique of instruction, a technique of assigning lessons, a technique of grading Ihe pupils, a technique of determining promotions, a technique of discipline, that places the successful teacher upon a strictly professional basis. The school undertakes in just as definite a manner to give systematic training in social living, in civic life, and in moral training. We do not have the same definite standards or objectives in these phases of school work as we have in Ihe physical and intellectual programs lint the school endeavors to deal with fundamentals. It holds largely to the terminology of the social sciences working as complete a constructive program as it is capable of doing. Finally. Ihe school has a very definite vocational program. This begins in the early years of the school program. Trained teachers today have pursued a course in vocational guidance. Ihe fundamental principles of which apply all along through Hie work of the CORNELIA SAMP LINER Cornle. Associate Editor A. Ye Gods, is there n» relief from love? P. Fred knows more about her than we do. Cornelia Sampliner, with dancing feet As graceful fairy, she can’t he beat. Her faithful friend is none but Fred “A good mateli” is well said. MILDRED BADERS Dutch The Poetess A. 1 love ils gentle warble, 1 love its placid flow I love to wind my longue up. I love to hear it go. P. The Sixth Street fountain lias a queer effect on her. Apology: Mildred Baders, who collected this junk Don’t need telling that it’s punk Please he patient, consider the source II might have been better but couldn’t be worse.

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T. BERNHARD V 10LVERT0N Socrates Salutatorian President 1020. A. I really would be a ladies’ man if I had more time. P. Studious is hardly the word, it lacks proper intensity. Bernhard Woolverton our Senior President A lean, lanky fellow on knowledge bent He studies hard no lessons he fakes: He’s lively and smart and wide awake. Finish Your School Work (By Prof. R. E. Tope.) We are now on the last six weeks of the sehool year. It is the most important period of the entire school year. It is the time when the firmest resolutions of life may be formed. On the other hand, it is the time when Hie m sl reckless and trifling decisions are made. During these six weeks, it is very necessary that pupils a'tend sehool every day and that they not only prepare, but that they endeavor to recite every lesson well. II Is also very important that pupils who have been failing or who are too near the failing line should see their teachers and get their personal suggestions and help in the preparation of the daily lessons. Every teacher will be glad to spend any amount of time to help a student who wants to learn. A teacher may become discouraged in trying to coax and compel a pupil to learn, hut no case can be found vh re she neglects a pupil who is really trying to take advantage of the instruction and guidance that the school offers. Pupils should go over their grade cards carefully and then they should go 1o the teachers and get the advice and suggestions that will help them to complete the year’s work in the most creditable manner. School success depends almost entirely on how well the pupils respond to Hie suggestions the teachers offer from day to day. The most foolish thing in the world that a student can do is to give up or quit school before he finishes his work. Students who do quit, live a great many years to regret the reckless decision they made. Slay in school; go to the teachers after school for help; and spend twice as much time on your school work: are the wise things to do at this season of Hi year if you want to build substantially for a successful life in the years to come. GRETC1IEN THOMAS Sniffy Class Secretary-Treas. A. There’s nothing so kindly as kindness and nothing so loyal as truth. P. A pleasanter disposi-tion you seldom find. Gretchen Thomas, is the next one’s name Sweet, gentle and happy and always the same She’s up to some prank as always though She’ll pay for her pleasures sometime, I trow. School Contribution 1919-1920 (By Prof. R. E Tope.) High Lowell Hawthorne Emerson Riverside Number of contributions 0 C 8 5 6 Amount of contributions $ 516.51 $ 30i.51 $177.00 •$ 90.22 $50.00 Amount of money invested in bonds and stamps 1168.4G 3030.58 ilO.OO 221.40 15.25 Amount of money raised for school purposes 2085.16 53.75 29.51 74.00 Total ................$3720.13 $3207.93 $0.0.75 $311.18 $94.25 Grand Total ................................... $8064.54 Contributions for: Jewish Relief, Armenian Relief. Thanksgiving, Red Cross, French Orphans and Roosevelt Memorial. All the Year Round School JAMES H. Rt'SK Chimmie (By Prof. R. E. Tope.) Vice-President 1920. A. I, whose words all ears take captive. P. Wlien he knows a thing everybody knows he knows. Jimmy Rusk, our new acquisition Who came to us on an unknown mission. The mystery cleared, the victim fell Clorinda’s his and all is well. Now that most institutions of higher learning in the country have adopted the so called Quarter Basis for the sehool year, the plan is being considered by public school systems throughout the country. Several well known public school systems have decided to adopt the plan for next year. It is a simple scheme of organization. The year is divided into four quarters of thirteen school weeks each. There is one week of vacation between each of these quarters. This gives an opportunity for the teachers to work all the year round, just as people who follow other vocations do. It also gives an opportunity for the school to put on a full summer program that will he as well planned and as definite as its fall, winter and spring programs. The school will vary its program to suit the needs of the summer time and it would also correlate its work with the activities of the summer season. JOHN a COTTRELL Count Valedictorian. Pres. Boosters’ Club, Bus. Man. O. B.. Pro. Tern. A. I need no eulogy—I speak for myself. P. “He says a thousand other things but hates to say good-bye. John Cottrell, a shrewd debonair As a doctor he will probably fare On the whole a good old codger Who is quite taken with Jaunita Roger

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FRED WILLIAMSON Xap'deon Football Captain A. I find married life i ry satisfactory, I . The Caruso of his class Fred Williamson, a boy with a smile II seems to stretch about half a mile We can’t loll why we admire you, I'nless il is because you’re true blue. LOIS HOPKIRK Louie President Literary Society A. Each day I grow older and learn something new. P. Deep souled and of modest disposition. Lois Hopkirk, this advice take In I he Leap Year custom your future awaits She always has her lessons fine And still enjoys things in her line. school. By Ihe time the pupils get to the tenth grade, they begin to select lines of work which will fit them for certain objectives n life. The machinery which enables the school to give specific training and practice in Ihe basic occupations of the community in which we live is well established. The major occupations of the community are commercial and agricultural. In each of these lines, we give ;is complete and definite a system of training as can he secured anywhere. If a student in high school makes lip his mind to f II » v agriculture as an occupation or to follow commercial work or business as an occupation the high school offers him advantages that are thorough and complete In every detail. Pupils who do not select either of these vocations have Ihe opportunity of selecting studies that give them a training that will enable them to enter any institution in Ihe country where they may prepare f r any of the more technical professions: such as leaching, medicine, law. engineering. ele. Students who continue In school without making up the'r mi ds as lo any particular vocation or course in life that they desire to pursue, find a variety of subjects in the curriculum that can he taken that will give a general training that will he »f great ludn when they do finally make up the r minds as to tlie place in society in which they will endeavor to fit and adjust themselves. A Great Opportunity for Future Classes Ye note with great pleasure that Professor Hirons is to remd 1 with the High School at least another year and we sincerely h p«» that lie will not give up his school work for many years to come To one who will soon have to reflect on. rather than to look forward to. further and continued association with our broadminded and progressive friend and teacher, it seems that one could not w sh for a more opportune lime of attending G. J. II. S', than next year. The High School will still be run with the same broad-minded policy as it has been in the past: it will still he under Hie expert yet unassuming guidance of a friend as well as a teacher, and tne building ilself will be bigger and belter than ever. The Class of ’21 and those following are to he congratulated n their extreme good fortune. So let us all boost for the most prosperous school year in Ihe annals of Grand Junction High. Our Instructors A few days and we say good-bye to the associations that have bound us together for past years and it is with sadness and regret that we are obliged to bring to an end the days which, no doubt, will be the happiest of our lives. A few months will find us separated never to meet again as we are here assembled at the close of our high school career. Moving as we must, out into the world, some of us will enter at once a business career, others of us will take a college course knowing that il will help us to solve Ihe technical problems of a commercial life. However, we will remember with pleasure in after years the happy days spent from our earliest years to the present time, in tho Grand Junction schools. The trials our young imaginations brought to us are forgotten both by us and by the teachers, and now as we grow older, our more mature years brings us to realize the unbounded efforts, the never failing interest and the patience put forth in our behalf by our instructors and it fills us with gratitude and appreciation. We caw see the same teachers that gave us a helping hand and smoothed over Hie rough spots during our bare-foot days yes. and our later days still tirelessly working to the end that a foundation for honorable men and women will be established and in this is the sole hope of their reward. We are proud of our teachers and our professors and we will always remember our profitable associations with them. and. as we must of a necessity discontinue in a short time our relations with them, our greatest endeavors will be never to bring discredit to them or our dear old Junction High. HELEN BOWMAN The Typist Breezie A. I have a Steele body guard. I . Persuasions lips Ihe end of her longue when sin speaks Helen Bowman, a girl of charms. Win knows all. fr m the dance to a farm This fair young, lass has a heart of Steele Locked in hers and tightly sealed. SIDNEY HOEL Sid Football Manager A. There’s nothing in a name, look at me. P. His modesty is touching. Sidney Hoel, a reasonable and prudent man Doing good where e’er he can All we can say. he’s a fair looking lad Not very good, nor very bad.