Joliet Central High School - Steelmen Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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To Miss Hunt who has faithfully and cheer- fully put out our yearbooks from I923-'I948 and our f-Hi- foumal from 1926-1951, ' we affectionately extend our ap- preciation. Q -X iss I A Inf! 1 I x65 X X ZW! ft? 2 We H u Shu - f , Q4 f . fjmf , ' f ,NWC 7 W P f S f N ' 'sf f V ., ,, New 5 Weyyffsf , , ,W - f, X fin-.vm , 'A

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This mid-century year, wh our school, gives us the opportunity of of a century. The backward look is basis for perspective. More important scans the years of our lives yet to be lived, thing about that living if we approach our preparation adequate to solve those problems which the the century poses. We must be prepared so that we can recognize the dangers that us. Significant among these are: failing to recognize change in time, to adjust to it, relying on methods and processes that are hopelessly out- moded, over estimating our resources - material, intellectual, and spir- itual, refusing to co-operate in a world rapidly moving toward greater need of co-operation, because of greed allowing good ideas to languish and to be outdistanced by ideas of evil-doers. The schools and other social institutions basic to democratic nations must not lag in adiusting to changes that make new methods and proc- esses imperative if we would meet the needs of our times. Contrasts between 1901 and l95l make cnanges in schooling increasingly vital to the welfare of mankind. A half century ago there were fewer than ten miles of concrete roads in our nation. There were no tungsten electric lights. There was no sport page nor daily comic strip. Today radio, movies, and television serve the masses. Very elementary and often gaudy programs have become common through these mass media devel- opments. We enter the air age. We know atomic power. We need des- perately to build against the lag in human relations, to find ways to sub- merge violence, to remove causes of vice and crime, and to promote good will among all mankind. - Hugh S. Bonar -