Hononegah High School - Mack Yearbook (Rockton, IL)

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TU THE FHCUHU llle, the class ni '42 urish in ex- press nur deepest and rnnsi sincere appreciaiien inr pnur Inpai friendship and pridanee ihrpuph our four pears nf sehplesiie aehievemeni.

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HUIlUIlEl3HH'S FIHHHCIHL SITUHTIUII The school year 1941-42 finds our high school in financial distress. Even though there is 359,000 or more in the building fund account. schools of Illinois must keep two seperate accounts, one for building pur- poses, and the other for educatio.nal. This situation has been caused by two things. First, a decrease in the assessed valuation of property by over a million dollars, which means that the tax money we can receive! has been cut from nearly S40 000 to 322000. Second, a law recently passed by the General Assembly imposed a heavy fine on a township treasurer if money is taken from one account and put into another. Since 1932 when our maximum legal levy in the educational fund reached Sl. we have been unable to receive enough money in the educational fund to operate the school, and so have been taking it from the building fund. The law, above mentioned, stopped that practice, and now the educa- tional fund is empty. If the high standards of the school are to be maintained, the only way out is to somehow or other increase the tax money that can come in to the fund on the one hand, and cut expenses on the other. Expenses will be cut. but the only way to increase the income is to refer it to the people of the district, who some time in the spring, will vote on whether or not to give the Board of Education the power to levy 31.50 for the educational fund, instead of the 51.00. If this power is granted the building fund can be eliminated, and enough money can be brought in to make it possible to haul all the youngsters who live a mile and a half or more away from the building within the boundaries Cf the district- to and from school. If the tax levy cannot be increased, Hononegah will face the same situation as Rockford did namely it will probably be forced to close its doors for two months during the school year 1942-1943. In addition to that the whole program will have to be radically curtailed, and the edu- cational opportunities of the pupils and District 207 be limited to a very marked degree. O. E. LOOMIS ..14-.

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UNITED llIE SlHlIlJ As seniors in the class of 1942 perhaps we appreciate more fully than other classes of more tranquill years, the meaning of democracy and the heritage of American freedom that we have received from our ancestors, our parents, and our life in the American schools, We are de- termined that we shall keep faith with this great gift and that our lives shall be dedicated to the American ideal, so that it shall continue to stand high among the creeds of the world. The Class of 1942 THE HIIIEHICHWS CREED I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governedg a democracy in a republicg a soverign na- tion of many soverign statesg a perfect union, one and inseparableg estab- lished upon those principles of freedom, equality just-ice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I there- fore, believe it is my duty to my country to love itg to support its consti- tution: to obey its laws: to respect its flag: and to defend it against all enemies.