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Page 13 text:
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My Story It is difficult for me to write this article because it is perforce in the nature of a swan song, and that it is a song which up to a few years ago I hoped I never should be called upon to sing. It had always been my wish to continue my life work as long as I was able to render efiicient service. Perhaps that time has come now, that is for others to say. At any rate, when the end of june rolls around it will bring the last days of school for me after something more than HI-ty years of service. At the age of seventeen in a rural school back in Indiany I made my first venture with an intellectual equipment in the way of preparation that would not take a young man very far these days. In those days all that was necessary was that a candidate for a teaching position in the country have enough book larnin to pass the exam- ination set by the state, and enough physical prowess to maintain his supremacy when the big boys came in from the farm after the fall work was done, There were many interesting sessions when they decided to, in modern language, take teacher for a ride. Fortunately for me, perhaps, my first term was a summer term attended for the most part by pupils too young to be of much use on the farm. This gave me time to get my bearings and prepare for the more strenuous days of winter. As I look back I can see that these rural schools of the seventies and eighties were a marvelous training school. At the end of june I will finish forty-four years in the Chicago schools, twenty-five of which were spent in South Chicago. I began in the Ray School, a one-room school. in fact a rural school, situated at about 124th Street and the Calumet River, and served successively in the john L. Marsh, then at 101st Street and Escanaba, the Cummings at 108th and Hoxie, and the Taylor, at 100th Street and Avenue H which ends my first South Chicago period. I was transferred to the Francis E. Willard at 49th Street and St. Lawrence, then to the John Wortliy, which was then an adjunct of the Bridewell, then to the Mosely at 24th and Michigan, back to the john Worthy, and from there to the Gary at 30th and Ridgeway. From there in 1918 I came to Bowen to round out my teaching experience in thirteen most happy years. I have loved South Chicago and its people from the first day I set foot on its confines. I love Bowen High School and leave it with regret. I wish I could properly set forth my feelings as I look back over this more than half century in the public schools. I see a long line of splendid boys and girls maturing into men and women of which any community may be proudg I see noble fathers and mothers sacrificing that their children may have better prospecst in life through education than they hadg I hear expressions of thankfulness for some act rendered, for some word spoken that helped over the hard placesg these are some of the compensations in the life of the school master. And now I lay down my rod with the deepest feeling of appreciation and thankfulness for the loyalty and support of the teachers and pupils and parents all along the line and especially to the teachers and students and parents of Bowen. 1 1 Page Jezfen
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Speakers' Club The Speakers' Club was organized early this semester by the students of Mr. O'Keeffe's Public Speaking class since the class, as a whole, felt that through the medium of a club the class would be better able to accomplish work that would not fit in the school curriculum. During the past semester, members of the organ- ization have many times appeared before members of the student body and interested them in the many projects of the school. Among the under- takings which they have advertised through divi- sion room speeches were the cleanup campaign. and the Go-Getter membership drive. Several members also entered the Bowen oratori- cal contest and committed themselves worthily. The P. T. A. benefit movie was also advertised over the Bowen radio system by members of the club. These are only a few of the club's accom- plishments and they feel that they have satisfac- torily completed the semesters work. The Speak- ers' Club is sponsored by Mr. A. A. 0'Keeffe, Bowen's dramatic instructor. The officers are: Laurence Larson ,,,,,,A,.,, ,,.,,, .,,,,,,,,,,v,,,.,, P 1 'e,fja'e1zt Camille Taschner ,,,, ..,,,,. I f'ii'e-Pzwidelzf Sophie Stamos ,..,,-,,s-,, .,,,,,,,.s.,.. S ecrefary Richard McLaughlin ,..,,,,, Tretz.fm'er Page one bzmdred ze
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