Howell High School - Torch Yearbook (Howell, MI)

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SUPERINTENDENT MR. JOHN S. PAGE T0 THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT GREETINGS It has been a privilege and a great pleasure to work with you during the years you have spent as students in Howell High School. Many of you started your school life as members of the kindergarten class here in Howell, and I have known you and watched your work through grade as well as high school years. I have been privileged to share your happiness and your successes as well as some of your disappointments. Through it all I have come to know of your limitations and abilities and to have confidence in what you will do as you continue your formal edu- cation in college or university or take your places as active members of our American society. Equipping young people for their life work was one of the early objectives of schools and colleges. But we have gradually expanded the function of education to include the preparation of our students as citizens of a democracy. This is important, but of still greater importance is the duty we have to make sure that each student finds his own best self. Recently I heard John A. Sexson, Superintendent of Schools, Pasadena, California., state in an address that: We, the people of the United States, today find ourselves in a. new era of world affairs. Our obligations for leadership at home and abroad have multiplied. Our social, economic, and political problems, once confidently and safely resolved within the assured security of our vast national resources and our comfortable isolation,must henceforth be solved in the open arena of international competition. The abundance of our national resources is replaced by an economy of scarcity, and our barriers of comfortable isolation have fallen before the assaults of an atomic era. It is my feeling that Superintendent Sexson spoke words of infinite wisdom. It is my wish that you graduates of the Class of 1948 are equipped to find your own best self, and that you can do so and in addition measure up in every way to the challenge that comes to you as citizens of America in the new role in which America must act. Sincerely, John S. Page

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A TRIBUTE T0 MR. JOHN S. PAGE You have been with our school for twenty-five years, a. quarter of a century. In that period of time, guided by your wisdom, our school has grown in size, in glory, and in spirit. We,the Class of 48 , are pleased and proud to have had you as our Superintendent.

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MR. GLENN SLAYTON President MR. PAUL UBER Secretary MR. L. HAROLD CRANDALL Treasurer Q? MR. CHARLES K. VAN WINKLE DR. HAROLD C.