Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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4.11 L Colltns as our Superlntendent of Kenton schools We hope that th1s brlef brography wtll help us to know htm better He recetved hrs elementary and hrgh school educatron rn New Madtson Ohto From Leba non Unrversrty 1n 1917 he was granted the Ph B degree from Wtlrnrngton College ln 1921 the B A degree frorn the Unrverslty of C1nc1nnat1 the M A degree ln 1926 and the PhD tn 1928 He dld some postgraduate work rn Yale Unrverstty Dr Colltns took over hrs posltlon ln Kenton at the begtnnmg ot the school year of 1945 1946 Hts ttrst superlntendency was ID Clear creek Townshtp ID Warren County Ohto from 1914 1917 He was then Dlrector of the Y M C A Techntcal Schools tn Columbus from 1918 1920 and followlng that was super mtendent ot schools tn VVest Alexandna Later he became Prestdent of Wxlmmgton College and txnally Drrector ol the D1v1s1on ot Instr ctton tn the State Department of Educatlorm College From hrs last post he was granted a leave ot absence to enter 1nto the army where he LCL6L stgned to Allred Mtlrtary Government work as a spec1al1st tn educatton and 1n h1S eleven months overseas was statroned 1n the Medr terranean area North Afrtca Sardmta and the southern part of the ltaltan rnalnland Dr Colllns has set up a program whlch he belreves rrnportant to the betterment of edu catton rn Kenton l The broadest posstble program that stands for the development of the mlnds and bodtes of our students 2 Elementary school butldmgs as modern as the hlgh school 3 Each bu1ld1ng to be used as centers of comrnunlty actxvtty 4 The student body to take real prrde rn physlcal and lntellectual achlevement 5 The closest posstble workrng relatlon shrp among the students the cltrzens of the cornmunrty and the teachlng force 1n the schools Dr Colhns bel1eves that thts program should work toward one goal the develop ment ot a better c1t17en tor today and tomor row than we had y sterday n r ta .q,Qg.f,? K P We are indeed fortunate to have Dr. Walter held the rank ot major. Dr. Collins was as- u ' ' ' I , , ' , f e .

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NEWS Tonrght you have been al lowed to stay out untrl rnrdnrght at a chaperoned dance Tomor row you must face the whole world and frght alone for your place rn 1t Hrgh School rs the trme between tonrght and to morrow Tonrght your mother and father told you what you must do thrs mornrng you may ask for advrce rf you wrsh rt What rs gorng to be your lrfe work? How are you gorng to learn to do rt well? 'W nat makes your lrfe worth lrvrng apart from thrs work? What part have you rn desrgnrng a world socrety wrth one less flaw than when you found rt? No young person rn thrs war torn world can escape the world s questron To drscover the formula for the latest plastrc to synthesrze the lrfe savrng drug to offer a new theory of aerral navrgatron to reduce ruvenrle delrn quency rn our crty to bake the best cake thrs srde of the Mrssrssrppr none rs enough nothrng new under the sun Ive a feelrng lve been here before Men who have read Plato Sophocles the Brble or even those who observe humanrty carefully w1ll have some clue to the solutron All of us whether we are or wrll become a chemrst or preacher mechanrc or teacher polrtrcran or mrssronary should have a work able concept of the endurrng truths of relrgron of lrterature of phrlosophy of logrc th whole thought and feelrng of the past I addrtron to thrs knowledge we should have the ambrtron to push back the frontrers of thought a brt farther than they have been before rf we are to advance rn our efforts of creatrng a sane world for the future We as members of occrdental socrety are sometrmes subrect to error rn a popular seek rng of the new at the expense of the old Today s new automobrle of any of the popular makes 1S of more worth than a srmrlar model twenty years ago Agarn modern technrques of surgery are more desrrable than that rn use before Pasteur s experrmerrts especrally rf we are personally subreat to the cuttlng edge of the scalpel But we could hardly argue wrth much convrctron that the youthful Aryan prodrgres of Hrtler have lost therr prrvrlege to lrve rn thrs world because they once had that prrvrlege and mrsused rt that tne lndran wrth hrs dark skrn strange lan guage frlthy lrvrng habrts and obscure cul ture rs not worthy of a fractron of our standard cf lrvrng srnce hrs forefathers were rn exrs tence long before our own and drd lrttle to rmprove hrs lot from our standard of thought A laborer tcday rn strrkmg for S2 30 per hour not because hrs skrll by vrrtue of extended and expensrve trarnrng makes hrs servrces worth the wage he demands but because he belongs to a unron that rs prcketrng th shop Tolerance love lenrency mercy corn passron truthfulness courteousness are not good because they are erther old or new or because of the place or manner they are used They are good because they are rrght Paul L Oaklref . in W I . , I r - . , , I - , The Greeks had words for it. There is 1 7 . . ' I - I l I I . e . ' n I I ' I I A I I - I ' I I