Kennard School - Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Significant Future Aspects of Education BY EDWARD A. FERRENBACH President, Board of Education of the City of St. Louis The St. Louis schools have just completed their centennial of one hundred years of education. These glorious years have seen and participated in the development of St. Louis from a small town into a great metropolitan city, and have watched the growth of America from a country of limited influence to the greatest and most important world power. They have seen the development of public education from a restricted, limited institution to one which, in its need to integrate itself into the life of the people which it serves has become highly complex. The Kennard School illustrates clearly what has happened in the development of the field of elementary education. Situated as it is in a beautiful building, one of such architectural qualities that it is a monument to the community which it serves, it is a rare con- trast to the schools of our progenitors. The curriculum is a highly differentiated one, developing its pupils not only in the rudiments of knowledge, but in the ability to take their places in society with some understanding of its social and economic implication. Every opportunity for educational growth is given the child with the finest teachers available, best of books, and the most useful of educational equipment. American life to me will indeed become a finer one when our schools not only have the opportunity of training youth in the opportunities which they have in this great democracy as workers, but also as more active and understanding participants in its politi- cal and economic problems. The founders of the American common- Wealth, in planning for public schools as the hope of democracy, foresaw that the future of it depended upon the ability of the schools to prepare the citizens to participate in it. With the oppor- tunity for better training, I see- nothing but hope for the future of our country. I offer my congratulations to the Kennard School at the com- pletion of another year of successful service to its community, and to its teachers, pupils, parents and friends my sincerest good wishes and highest regards. 16

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The Kcnnard School Mothers' Circle The Kennard School Mothers' Circle is an organization which has for its object the establishment of a medium for acquaintance and understanding among the mothers and friends of the Kennard School children and to support every suggestion relating to the Wel- fare of the children in the school. It meets on the second Thursday of each month of the school year. OFFICERS Mrs. Doris Hackel, ............................. ..................... P resident Mrs. E. J. Schmidt, . ................... Vice-President Mrs. J. C. Hopewell, Z1 ,.......... Recording Secretary Mrs. W. H. Ruhland, ' r ....... ....... C orresponding' Secretary Mrs. F. Brudrick, 1 .................................. ............................... T reasurer COMMITTEES REFRESHMENT WAYS AND MEANS Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs Mrs Mrs E. D. Cannon J. J. Myers MEMBERSIIIP K. C. Murray J. Mitchellette T. J. French HOSPITALITY H. C. Dameron Carl Wegner PUBLICITY C. E. Barnbeck Mrs. H. Heald Mrs. F. J. Gilk J. Trelford Mrs. Mrs. B. Coplan Mrs. W. A. Simpson Mrs. D. Bensinger BETTER FILMS COUNCIL Mrs. C. Hermann MAGAZINE SUBSCIPTION Mrs. William Hein PLAY COMMITTEE Mrs. H. N. Pinckney 18