Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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As we passed a room labeled 29 we overhead Mr Chaltln explarnlnq the mechanrsrns of the new aa vancea televlsron set whrch he and hts very ad vanced physrcs class have aevelooed We be arne so rnterested that we decrded to rnqulre further lt wouldnt do to 1nterru,,t hrs Class drscusslcn so we went on down the stalrs ar und the corner and on down the comdor The frrst door we found open led down a fnqht of SlG1IS where Mr Newman and Mr There was a complxcated machxne s1tt1nq ID one corner wrth hundreds of knobs and buttons on 1t Mlss Wllcox selected one rn partrcular and unless my eyes decewed me I plaxnly saw Mr Oaklret and what must sur 1 VV1th the1r d1rect1ons rn hand we hurrled on to Mr Oakllef s oiflce the nerve center of the school M1ss W1lcox and Mrs Hofsteater were pourmq over a huqe black book We polltely cleared our throat and asked to speak to Mr Oaklref and Just as pohtely were told that he had a class dunnq the penod ha Je been a math class lust push a button and encuqh there was Mrs Gra'Fl1Ch and her l freshman lfnal sh Class t A . l , o A 1' I ' l Koch were busily shovelinq Coal into the Stoker bin. l y . sw F'

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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

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Another button showed us Mrs. Cox and a seem- ingly small geography class, but we assumed there were more in the last row. around her and another push and there was Mrss Cam s b1ology class where everyone seemed to be studyrng rntently wrth the except1on of Margre Bow man she had other rdeas And now to room 28 where Pellers class 1n c1v1cs flashed on the screen The seemed to be havtng a warm d1scuss1on Ah well senrors wrll be senxors Thrs was great' We pulled up a chalr rolled up our sleeves and wrth an a1r of assurance I selected a button pushed and there was Mrs Buttolph the school lrbrarran wrth srx of her assrstants gathered we see Mr Dorns who was takrng trme out from hls varrous coachxng dutres to oversee a study penod Frorn that mrschrevous expressron on Dxck Mosers face our guess 1S that he needs over seerng Next Mr Y S f ,,' 1' 4 , l 5 .- ' I I I I I ' I l t l .- I . , . 5 . , , , , I . . . , I - n 1 we fc Te' , YY? It g , . . . ' I . . . Q