Hillsboro High School - EL Aquila Yearbook (Hillsboro, TX)

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l1lrxx lcrfccrcg lx xK1ll1eHelm The Hrstorx ot the Hrllsboro Iunror College may be drxrded rnto threc per rods ancrent medrex rl rnd modern The rncrent perrod closes wrth the actual operrrrr ot the collcl e It xx as the trme xx hen the plan xxas under consrderatron the trme ot greatest urrcert rrntx and hardshrp The medre xal perrod xxas the tn st year the trxrnc, trme xxhen r proneer school hrs Lo pr oxe rts xx orth to the skeptrc rl cr ltlcs at home and rbroad The modern era was rnaugurated by the adoptron ot the present pl rn of organwatron xxhrch has conxer ted the rnstrtutron from r proneer mto r gurde or leader nn the educatronal xxor ld -Xs early as 1919 some tar seerng member ot the school Board exer alert to nevx rdeas grasped thc possrbrlrtx ot serxrce to the communrty through the establrshmerrt of a Junror College at Hrllsboro He Communr cated hrs rdea to the other members ot the board xx hrch at thrs trme rn luded Messrs John G Read -X NI Fr rfrer J K P rrr John XX Young luy C W est Curtrs Pattereon and Dr J F Boyd In a fexx months they together xxrth the superrntendent Mr NN T Iofland becrme thoroughly conxrnced of the desrrabrlrtv ot carryrng out the proposal -X marorrtv ot the members of the board began a gener rl drscussron ot the matter at pub lrc meetrngs rn Hrllsboro and the surroundrng countrx The proposrtrorr xxas taken up xx rth the luncheon clubs the ladres clubs rnd the ch rmber of commerce Txxo open meetrngs that xxere generally attended by pub uc sprrrted c1t17ens xx ere held bv the Chamber of Commerce -Xctrng on the petrtron of the bchool Board and about txxo hundred crtr Lens the Crty Councrl ordered an electron for Aprrl 0 1921 to xote on r bond rssue for Wo 000 00 for the constructron of a college burldrng and the 1 urchase of neceesary equrpmerrt Conerderable oppoartron dex eloped Th rdxocates of the rumor college ngued that xxrth the necessary burldrng rnd equrpment a turtron chargc of 5100 per student xx ould defray all nec essarv expeneet Thev pornted out the adx antage of keeprng the rmma lure hrgh school graduates under the rnfluence of therr parents txxo years longer the possrbrlrty of the poor but ambrtrous bovs and grrls eecurrng a college educatron rf thev could obtarn the frrst two years trarnrng at home the enormous saxrng to the state rn xx eedrng, out rn a less expensrxe school the forty to trfty per cent of students xx ho normally drop out after attend ng a unrxer srty one or' txxo year s They emphasrzed also the cultural value of a college to a communrtv 'Ihe opponents feared th rt the rntereat of the publrc school xxould be sacrrfrced to burld up the college they doubted the abrlrty of the school board to secure proper lx trarned teachers they cruestroned thc possrbrlrtv of grxrng real college vxork rn a small school they pronounced the undertakrng rllegal and freely predrcted the tarlure ot the xx hole enter prrse The edrtor ot the Hrllsboro Mrrror Mr J L Butts xxrotc manv zlrle cdrtorrals fivorrng the cstrblrshmcnt ot the runror col lege vxhrle at the same trme he opened the co umns of hrs paper for the tullest drscussron of the matter' bv fr rende and foes alrke Electron day lm xllx came md the xote on thc rumor college burldrng bonds xxas 235 for the measure :nd 225 agarnst rt The bonds were rssued but xxere Qold only after some delay and drtirculty All vxas not vet smooth sarlmg On the nrght of Aprrl 6 1992 the 1 Y , ' A X l ' ' 1 1 1 l'lS CxID11 Y of 'llA lim KC' x' c l l , , 1 1 . . . 1 V1 57 rg 1 A v ' ' W ' Y' . 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