Houstonia High School - Shamrock Yearbook (Houstonia, MO)

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Superintendent? Message Time was when humankind lived in caves and lived on the fowls of the air, the fish ofthe sea, and the wild beasts of the forests. Their methods of providing food were indeed primitive and cumbersome. Crude and unshapen tools and weapons were devised by minds that had little' conception of accuracy and efficiency. Brute strength with trial and error intuition resulted in the sparing of many human lives and furnished the wherewithal to keep body and soul together. It is indeed a far cry from that era to the one we now live in. The comparison would be only a feeble effort on our part and the results would be obviously distorting. To form a perspective of the panorama of events that have pyramided themselves through eons of time and have passedbetween the primitive and the modern ages would be exhaustive and well-nigh impossible. With our advanced civilization and our ever widening horizons of usefulness, we are duty bound to prepare ourselves for greater objectives of efficiency, moti- vated by an unselfish desire to serve our fellowmen and make this world a better place in which to live. Moreover, our personal lives are more richly enhanced through culture and training. Therefore, our schools of today are seeking to incul- cate, not only the rich heritage of the past ages, but to indoctrinate them with the highest and noblest ideals of complete living. Wherein have we succeeded and wherein have we failed in our concerted attempt to prepare the youth of our community to meet properly and to solve efficiently the common and, likewise, the intricate problems of a chaotic and a war-torn world. The tasks are always staggering. Never have we felt more keenly and conscientiously the almost overwhelming weight of responsibility that rested on our shoulders as we tried from day to day to build well and substantially the foundations through education of the boys and girls of our school. - The school year of 1951-'52 has been completed--the record, whether good or ill, has been written: the results have been tabulated and evaluated, and the students and teachers stand condemned or justified. We have the assurance, as well as the conviction, that all of the teachers sought diligently to do their very best in directing the efforts of the students into channels of usefulness and high purposes. If we have failed, it was done unwittingly. May we express the fond hope that all members of the Senior Class reflect dignity and honor upon their community, their parents, their country, their generation, and their God. William H. Guenthe r

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y Yearbook Staff Ed1tor.............. C0-Editor........... Business Manager...... . C0-Business Manager Layout Manager ....... . V . . . .B. Schondelmeyer Boys' Sports Editor. . . Girls' Sports Editor. . . Co-Layout Manager. . Senior Editor. . . . . . Margaret Kreisel ...........JeanK1-eisel . . Mary Faulconer . . . . . Clinton Reid . . .L . . .Vera Klein . . . . Dale Ndrfleet . . Betty Jo Faris . Q. . Alberta Snaith Dedication Editors of '52 We, the Seniors of 1952, dedicate our annual to our parents and teachers who have so willing ly helped us through our twelve years of school. - 0 ssx-xxs s MMM

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Board of Education William H. Guenther: Superintendent Earl Gregory: Member Murray Wood: Treasurer Wallace Smiley: President Walter Werneke: Vice-President Joe Bill Reid: Member J. W. Rissler: Secretary Herbert H. Kreisel fnot present in picture, This is the new board of education which was elected following the reorganization of the district in the fall of 1951. '