Joliet Junior College - Shield Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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Once when driving around our schools with Prof. Frank H. Hall, as we came to McKinley Park he asked: What are you going to do with seventeen acres in one school ground? I am right glad we came here, Professor. I will be glad for you, from your great ex- perience, to tell me what is the proper size for school grounds, and which part of these we should dispose of. As we drove over the grounds he noted the young trees we had planted — the gigantic hack- berry, the sturdy oak, the maple and other native trees, the water front along Hickory creek, and said no more that day. The next day, af- ' x . came to me and said : at the teachers ' convention he I have been studying eluded that seventeen a for school grounds. W city extends far beyon This article is be ' fit the space allotted, some school tree nu was such that they Shaw ' s Garden, at America, the Gove] became interested The actual is more a matter number that can b One acre, three feel I ' j foot, 43560. Fores many. Every rod c trees growing therec would be in store for uij . ; Many of the trees ij gave away, will be growing | have passed away. ' That the school nurseries are not rapidly increasing and im- proving, is not a matter for criticism. The more important matters of good schools are too pressing. But I firmly believe that some time in the future the boys and girls of Moran and other schools who help- ed to plant, raised and set out in school grounds, and of the surplus stock took to their own homes, will, as school officers, principals, teachers and janitors, revive the plan of planting and raising trees in all available school grounds. -A. O. Marshal]. since and have con- sist the proper size en your growing be cut down to We started ijel experiment jintendent of untry Life in | ishington, all young trees work. The surprising. 10890 ; one it is in Ger- es should have mine of wealth K , transplanted, and after all now living Seven

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dreeting Good readers all, we wish you well, And so we give you greeting: We hope this book in you ' ll compel An interest more than fleeting. Full many topics here you ' ll find, Each treated with some care, And pictures of many a different kind, And gems of humor rare. Slams and roasts and photographs, And jokes in prose and rhymes — Some that only make you laugh When you read between the lines. Every class is represented From Post-grad to Freshman dear, And their joy will be augmented When they read what ' s written here. We ' ve done our best to please you all, Our faults please overlook ; We hope our virtues you ' ll recall, And we hone vou ' ll like our Book! Four

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Lrreetinp $ readers all, we wish you we. (nd so we give you greeting: T e hope this book in you ' ll compel ;.n interest more than fleeting. i ill many topics here you ' ll find, fEach treated with some care, f And pictures of many a different ki: And gems of humor rare. Slams and roasts and photographs, And jokes in prose and rhymes — Some that only make you laugh iWhen you read between the lines. wery class is represented pm Post-grad to Freshman dea their ;oy will be augmented vthey read what ' s written „„ i- oa f nle r SUPERINTENDENT J. STANLEY BROWN