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

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To The Seniors I congratulate you on having completed the task you under- took when you entered high school, namely, to have done the work required for graduation Irom high school and for which you are soon to receive official recognition. You are a part of that small percent who have the will to stick to this job of high school until it is finished. Many are started, but few are finished. The task of the school today is to give opportunity for boys and girls to learn to liveg in fact, it is life itself. It is the hope of the writer that each of you has availed himself of every occasion to de- velop into the best citizen possible. You have been a citizen of a school, learning to care for yourself, to associate with others and recognize their rights, to equip yourself with some facts that will aid you in making a living, and that is life anyway. The success you have had in school may be in a measure indicative of the success you will have wherever you may continue your living. School is life, and life is a school. If we would go forward, we must be continually learning. As seniors you have been leaders in the life of the school. The habits and ideals that you have are those that most often make the school the institution that it is. So may you have made habits and developed ideals which shall make whatever institution or community you live in better for your having practiced living in high school. The institutions, business, and industries of the world today demand that individuals shall have ability and that they shall have training in schools. Not to finish at least the high school of today closes automatically many doors of employment. Mayhap the additional facts you would have learned would not pertain di- rectly to the place you seek, but the fact that you have had the stamina to stay with his job of high school work until finished sets a stamp of approval which is not overlooked. You have, therefore, not only earned congratulations but you have as well written your own letter of recommendation. In the short time it has been my pleasure to be associated with you I have not had an opportunity to make intimate friends of all. True friendship is not made in a moment but is the product of years of acquaintance. I have, however, come to know you all sc well that I trust the years will ripen our acquaintance into true friendship and that it may be my privilege in the years ahead to be of service to you as becomes a true friend. -E. R. Stevens, Principal. Page 16

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PRINCIPAL E. R. STEVENS, B. S., M. S. Mr. Stevens possesses that rare quality of being popular with students, patrons, and teachers and yet retaining the respect and confidence of all. We like him because he is one of us . Page 15

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Departments What shall I do to be known And make the age to come my own ? Thus question all of us. Never is the thought more prominent than when we begin our high school course and first select our own activities. Here Indepen- dence High School gives the greatest possible choice, oiering seven groups of subjects: English, Mathematics, Social and Physical Science, Foreign Lan- guage, Vocational and Fine Arts, and Physical Education. The English groups includes Debate, Dramatics, Journalism, and English 1-6, covering grammar, composition, and the classics. In Mathematics there are offered three terms each of Algebra and Geometry and two terms of Commercial Arithmetic. Social Science includes Ancient and Medieval, Modern, and American History, Civics, and Economics. Under Physical Science come Biology, Physiology, Chemistry, Physics, and Psychology. Four years of Latin, including Ceasar, Cicero and Virgil, one year of French and two of Spanish are offered under Foreign Language. Vocational and Fine Arts cover Business, Mechanical Arts, Home Econom- ics, Art and Design, and Music. Each of these also is subdivided. Under Bus- iness: Commercial Geography, Penmanship, Commercial Law, two years of Book- keeping, Shorthand, Typing and a half year of Office Training. Under Mechan- ical Arts: four years each of Woodwork, Machine Shop, three years of Print- ing and two of Mechanical Drawing. Under Home Economics: Sewing and cooking. There are four years' of Art offered, while Music includes three years each of Chorus, Band and Orchestra. Physical Education includes three years of gymnasium Work, football, bas- ketball, track, and tennis. Hygiene, Geography, and Penrnanship are also available. With such variety of selection possible we are able to secure subjects best suited to our particular interests, talents and probable futures. In the last three years, one hundred ninety-five students have graduated from General Coursey one hundred forty from Collegiate, fifty-seven from Nor- mal, and thirty-six from Business. Last year two newer courses, Secreta1'ial and Accounting, were listed among those from which students graduated. Independence High School offers practical experience as well as theoreti- cal problems in all branches of its activities. Home Economics students, while preparing themselves for future successful housewives, try various experiments on submissive families, Art students are often employed on school and. commu- nity projectsg the Printing Department publishes The Independence Student and the Orange and Black, while the Journalism classes struggle to prepare the Student for publication. Thus, while training themselves for future work, projects of community importance are carried through. Training in school loyalty, habit of successful accomplishments, quality c effort, vigor of attack, tenacity of purpose which leads to complete and thorough mastery of worth-while tasks are the chief possible developments of the h g school years but, What we are to be we are now becoming . The habit of achievement leads to success, as shown by I. H. S. graduates doing creditable work in nearly all lines of business. School loyalty leads to national loyalty and good citizenship. Since the best prophet of the future is the past , what is not possible to the student who has selected his course from the I. H. S. curriculm? -Doris K. Peck Page 17