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

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Greetings To the City Superintendent; To the Faculty; To the Fellow-Students of G. J. H. S.; To the Business Men of Grand Junction; To the Many Friends of the Class of ’21.

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 'ii hlbs 1 v.!on •’Chuck” Class President 4) Football (4) G. J. Basketball (4) G. J. Track (3) (4) G. J. Baseball (4) Operetta (4) East High School. Salt Lake (1) (2) 3) I’m a Little Fairy.” LUCILK JONES “Jonsey” Vice Pres. (4) Glee Club (1) (2) (3) (4) Mandolin Club (2) (3) Spanish Club (4) Operetta (1) (2) (3) (4) ”I’m Glad You’re Happy Again. VIRGINIA CALLAHAN “Swede” Glee Club (1) (2) (3) (4) Operetta (1) (2) (3) (4) Sec. Treas. (4) Orange and Black Staff (3) (4) Class Poet (4) Class Play. Idling.” School Work a Real Job QUPILS and parents sometimes fail to realize that school work is a real job and that IjL really affords enough actual material to consume the energy and take up the time of the pupil. Frequently we find pupils who enter school apparently in good faith and with a fair appreciation of what the school is able to do for those who avail themselves of the opportunities it affords, but back in their minds they have reserved the privilege of working at some outside job during half of their waking hours, or of fiddling away half of the waking hours in loafing or attending some frivolous social function or sentimental entertainment. Su h pupils are sure to fail. They cannot possibly make a success of school work when they are giving their time and energy to other things. Their experience so far as life's training is concerned will be like all who choose the foolish, trivial things, and then expect some day to realize something substantial out of the husks or “fool’s gold” which they foolishly collected. The school fails in a good many cases to secure results. The teachers and the entire school organization regret exceedingly the fact that it does fail to enlist the interest and attention of every individual. Failure is not the common thing, however. It is the exception to the general rule. The large majority of boys and girls in school win success, and it is from these good students that the world is systematically selecting its leadership. Now, when a student is failing in school, it is the business of the school to check up on the boy or girl to discover if possible the reasons. First, it is important to know whether the student is capable mentally of doing his work in school. This is a psychological problem. Then the next step is to find out how the student spends his time in school and out of school. It is necessary to know how much outside work is done by the individual, what his percentage of absence and tardiness is, whether he loafs his time away outside of school, and whether he keeps late hours on account of outside interests. The school must know all of these things in order to be able to place the responsibility for failure where it belongs. Card indexing is quite personal, but it is very necessary when accumulative information plays any part in the factors of success or failure. When a student is failing, it is necessary to bring him face to face with facts regarding his expenditure of time and energy. If he does not react favorably when his attention is called to these facts, then his case is practically hopeless. The following interview from Thomas A. Edison should make every school boy or girl sit down and meditate on his own school career, unless he is so confirmed a yap or bonehead that thinking is impossible. Mr. Edison was asked if he could give advice for success in life, and he answered as follows: “I can’t give any advice on that subject. If a young man has reached 21 and is dead mentally, no amount of advice, example or experience will ever change him in the slightest. If, at some period between 12 and 16 years of age, he can become interested in a subject and grow enthusiastic, then he will advance and become a high type of man. If not, his mental machinery will atrophy and he will become a mental ‘dead one’.” Good Schools Necessary J HE value of good schools to a community can-l J not be overestimated. When we say “good schools,” we mean a modern, progressive school system, with good buildings, well trained E. ALLACE MAST Socrates” Pres. Boosters’ Club (4) Oratorical Contest (3) (4) Brooking S. Dakota High School (1) (2) “Wait Till I Put On My Crown.” ALMA BOYER “Dooma” Valedictorian. Glee Club (1) (2) (3) (4) Operetta (1) (2) (3) (4) Pres. Spanish Club (4) “Oh Girls. What a Boy.” ANNA WAGLER “Bumpo” Salutatorian. “When I Discover My Man.