Independence High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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.. 4...l...- -.-..---- - T'-l 'i ' p. -A 1-Ncffcxu-sr fl f ' I ,' .. f TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1925, INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL: On behalf of all the citizens of Independence, the Board of Education, The Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Faculty of the High School, we take this opportunity to congratulate each graduate of the Class of 1925. You have now completed the course of study as prescribed by law and provided for you by the citizens and taxpayers of this city. The course of study that you have pursued from the primary department to the completion of your high school work has been provided for you by the Public at no little expense. No doubt, after all, the real distinguishing virtue of American Civilization and Government is its common school educational system. History records that the Founders of the American Government and the Fathers of our Repub- lic provided for our system of common school education long before the select- ion of our national emblem, Old Glory. In this, the Fathers builded better than they knew, for as long as our people have contributed to the common weal in the maintenance of the public educational system, or the American common school, the Public has maintained for the benefit of the people and civilization a veritable melting pot of citizenship, and just so long as our people are cognizant of their responsibilities as citizens and generously contribute to our educational institutions and common school system, just so long will Old Glory wave unsullied to the breeze and remain the Emblem of Liberty and PubliC Freedom. You graduates of the senior class are therefore the refined produce from that pot of citizenship hereinbefore referred to and your many personal friends, as well as all the citizens of this city look forward with pleasure and satisfac- tion to the positions you are to, and will, take in the activities of life. We feel that you are now properly equipped to take your true position in life, possessed as you are of an intangible asset of good citizenship acquired by reason of the course of study you have pursued throughout our common school system. Your success in the future will depend more largely than ever before upon your individual efforts. So that in the commencement of life's activities which you now are about to enter upon, may we suggest and urge that you hold fast to the ideals of good citizenship, of integrity of purpose and sincerity of effort, which ideals have been formulated or created While students of our schools. If you will fight for and hold fast to those ideals, your success in life is assured, and the fruits of your efforts will reflect not only great credit to each and every one of you, but will prove a great satisfaction to each citizen and taxpayer of our beautiful and cultured city who have so generously and almost without stint contributed of their means so as to make you good and useful citizens. All that the people have done in your behalf and the contributions they have made to your welfare and future happiness was with a spirit of unselfish- ness and true public service with a consciousness, now that you have completed your course of study in our common schools, they have profited greatly thereby and thie virtue of such public service by thus helping you, is after all its own rewar . With high hopes and fondest expectations for your future success, we are, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF Independence, Kansas. By Thomas Edward Wagstaff, President. Page 12 .

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.wwf -W llsgsfoiriffill 1 if 5 a if? la J. F. HUGHES, Principal I. H. S. is justly proud of her Principal, J. F. Hughes.. He came to us at a difficult time, that of the organization of the new Junior high school, but he proved an able executive and soon had the system run- ning smoothly. Both faculty and students have found him interested in our problems and ever willing to give us the benefit of his impartial judgement. Under his leadership I. H. S. is assured of holding her place as the best school of her class in the United States. V a..d'.-1:32-:.. :'.:+p. Huw ........ ....A me s---s i ,.. Page 11 -.f- f A' ' M if

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5 gg. an ...Mr .,..,.: .,.... ..XX. T ...,.. ,,.,,3N, 41-M'-f Q, ..x g a, f J 5 1 f' f f R ,-ge HT an .iii EM. . be Memorial to the Senior High There can be no life without change. We are pilgrims who must, whether we will or no, move on. However fair the place of our now-a-day rest, however great our reluctance to part with scenes and associates which have grown dear to our hearts, inevitably the hour of parting arrives, and though we look sadly back at the past, we must go on to meet the grim and shadowy future. Someone has said that old buildings are haunted not by the unhappy ghosts of former occupants, but by the thoughts, emotions and struggles of those who have lived, loved and suffered there. If this be true, what a gay and rollicking band of phantoms must find shelter under this old roof, so dear to us. What Happy Dreams and High Hopes go arm and arm down its corridors. And moving among them, we glimpse the gray garments of Grim Despair and Grisly Fear, and catch their mournful whispers as they pass-- That True and False Quiz was terrible! And I am just sure I will flunk in Physics! Then the saddest ghost of all, the Ghost of Regret for neglected and lost opportunities, threads its way through the jostling throng, touching each of us as it passes with a touch of real sadness. But a gallant group of athletic memories comes surging by to the rousing strains of Stand Up and Cheer, and as we watch the snake dance and the old yells fill our ears, we smile and our hearts beat fast, as we re-live the days of toil and triumph for the beloved Orange and Black. Pervading all the multitude of memories like the wholesome fragrance of lavender, is the gentle memory of him who for so many years was the guiding spirit of the old high school. And the name of S. M. Nees still lives in grateful remembrance within its walls. --BABS CARROLL '25 Page 13 ' H -f H- egg.-f --P ,s-R .ve f ee e l-be as-if ijj,Q,sf-if szzi-e.Q,2zf-N