Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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HPPHUVEU HYUIVISIUNUP ,. t ,, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Eugene Sheldon, Mr C. Richard Rubins, Mr. Chandos Printz, Mr. Vernon 1. Gasson, Mr. Keith Ehresman. 'A' Tllll ll0Allll 0F llllC1l'l'lll 'A' Kenton occupies a unique distinction among the cities of Ohio and the United States in having had for many, many years good Boards of Education composed of four members. By having an even number of members, the citizens have escaped the hazards of majority factions and minority factions sometimes discovered in other school districts. The Board of Education is the ruling and responsible group of citizens, freely elected, who bear the responsibilities of deciding issues relating to personnel selection and rates of pay, maintenance of property, procurement of materials and the development of the curriculum in all years of instruction. Thev are a sort of composite Hwatchdogs of the tax funds , building experts, landscape gardeners, purchasing agents, professors of education and employment agents, doing all this and more without pay, on their own time, while each in turn is engaged in his own personal occupation. The personnel of the Board of 1947 are as follows: Mr. Vernon 1. Gasson, CGassons Laboratoryj President Mr. Keith Ehresman, CKeith's Electrical Farm Storej Vice President Mr. Eugene Sheldon, fOhio Machine Tool Co.J Member Mr. C. Richard Rubins, CStandard Oil Co.D Member Mr. Chandos Printz, CKenton National Banltj Employed as Clerk-Treasurer

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?9wmed df, llll Jllllllllllllfl ELHEE Ui IW FIRST ROW: Tom Munrsinger, joan Snyder, Mary Howard, Walida Kinnear, joe Cvene Marquart. SECOND ROW: Twila Bacon, Esther Silverstein, Marilyn Crooks, Mary Lou Sheldon, Lee Sheldon, Bob Sellers, Sherry Mulvaine, Doris Rogers, Marrha Danner, Mary Lou Bailey, Marilyn Blue, Berry Butrolph. THIRD ROW: Cliff Biddinger, Robert Comer, ,less Claypool, George Brindley, Dick james, Mr. Carl Russell 'A' Mary Helen Howard Managing EClil0r Tom Munrsinger Arr Direcror

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UNUEH Ullllillllll lil . . . The noted philosopher Goethe once said that, The art of living is like every other art. It must be learned and practiced with incessant care. ln these two sentences he challenged all persons who want to live a successful life. To many persons, living is just a matter of existing from day to day. To others it may mean such a series of fine and worthy experiences that the sifting and evaluating of those experiences become, in themselves, a fine art. Certainly it is our hope that the years which you have spent in Kenton High School have taught you not only something of the technique of living, but that they have also given you a desire to improve in living as time comes and goes. lt involves work, playhresr, social activities, self-improvement, social service, - worship - in fact the right kind of living gives us countless opportunities to develop every potentiality we possess into an actuality. We hope that Kenton High School has opened the door just a little to the possibilities ofa rich, full life for you. You have had good times in Kenton High School-perhaps the going was a little rough at times- you succeeded in some things -perhaps did not do so well in others -that's life. All in all it was a pretty fine experience, wasn't it? Don't forget it. Be assured that you leave our school with the best of wishes of ' Your Superintendent, WALTER L. COLLINS -A' -lr ik Our world has with incredible rapidity exchanged its war-problems for peace- problems. Neither series is easy of solution. We live under a desire to let down and take things easy. Normal inertia is increased by the fatigue which war and the emotions of war bring. In our school, students fret that work is hard. lt is not an easy day for great movements. Being tired, wanting life too easy, complaints rise easily to our lips. We boasted that our army was a griping army. The citizen learned easily from the man in uniform, and complaining has become a citizens' disease. We 1 complain in the spirit of freedom of speech. :We complain, remembering that during the war we held our gripes in the name of patriotism, and now is our chance to catch up. We indulge in the pleasant pastime ot glamorizing our yesterdays. The ugly fadesg the rosy becomes rosier. During the war years, the student glamorized the pre-war days and projected them into the future. Now they are here, they have some of the unpleasant aspects of reality. The veteran dreams with understandable longing for the excitement which was his so recently, for the warmth of camp fellowship and the camaraderie of war. Peace can be monotonous. Our world today has a new spiritual hunger. Even in victory, the way has brought its frustrationsg and the new weapons of science have stirred fear. The answer to our world needs, we say, is moral and spiritual. Curious that modern man who scorned the religion of his primitive ancestor because it was born, he believed, in fear, now finds himself driven by his own fears, the same source! The answer to the fear ofthe atomic bomb can only be found in the complexion of man's mind and heart. Our world today with all its anxieties and perplexities is a world of mighty promise, it is a world of tremendous opportunityg it is a wcrld for steady courage and brave new hope. Your principal, PAUL OAKLIEF