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

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 From Our Superintendent OW may the value of a high school education be determined? Surely not by the monetary process; not by units of credit earned; nor by cultural attainments alone. May not much be attributed to friendships won; something to the clean, elevating atmosphere which pervades a well regulated high school and quite a good deal to the activities and events which contribute in later years to the “Scroll of Memory” in our lives. Because this is true the class of 1926 introduces a new number of the Orange and Black and hopes that the students and friends of the high school may lind within its pages something that will bring home to you an understanding of the value of the broader education for which we have striven so earnestly. If this book seems to represent the lighter phases of education as the chief interest of ourselves and of the school in general please bear in mind that these things are but the beautiful verdure that grows on the mountain of solid endeavor, serious intent, and substantial accomplishment. This book is a novel representation of the delighful phases and interests of high school life. These can be shown pictorially now. What students really gain in high school life will be seen in their lives in the years to come The class of 1926 has every promise of making good and all who know the members best have the greatest confidence in their ability to be successful men and women as soon as they begin to do the work of the world. During the four years that the Class of 1926 has been in high school there has been one unbroken line of victories and successes in every kind of endeavor which comes within the realm of student activity. The debating team has been in first or second place in the state for three years. The rhetorical team has won first place three tir.es and second place once. The football an basketball teams have been championship teams three years out of four. The track team has won the interscholastic meet four years in succession. The music teams have won two first places and one second. The scholarship team has taken second place in the state contest for four consecutive years, a different school taking the first place each year. In the Smith-Hughes agricultural contest we have not fallen below second place since the beginning of this work. The class of 1926 has contributed its full share to all of these successes which are objective evidence of consistent serious endeavor on the part of the whole body of students. R. E. TOPE, Superintendent of Public Schools.

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DEDICATION To Mr. Hirons, the true friend of every student in the school, we respectfully dedicate this annual

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