Logansport High School - Tattler Yearbook (Logansport, IN)

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Ecoication MISS CLARA RATHFON Assistant Principal of the Logansport High School Dean of Girls English Instructor The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skillg A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To Warn, to comfort, and command. Miss Rathfon has just completed her first year as assistant principal. This office, added to her Work as Dean of Girls, gives her a Wide field of in- fluence. . Her infiuence in educational matters has not been restricted to the Logansport High School. Every teacher-not only in Logansport but through out the state-realizes the debt that the teaching profession owes her. Last year she was president of the Indiana State Teachers' Associa- tion, an organization of twenty-four thousand educators. This organiza- tion in its eighty years of existence has had but six women presidents. Miss Rathfon is one of the six women. In the past she has been a member of the Executive Board of the Indiana State Teachers' Federation and for two years was president of that federation. At the present time she is one of a committee that edits and publishes The Indiana Teacher. She has been active in all legislation of recent years that has been for the advancement of education in Indiana, namely, The Indiana State Teachers' Retirement Law, The Tenure Law, The Teachers' Minimum Wage Law, and the Teachers' Training Law. The Class of '33 congratulates her on her attainments, and itself that individually each member may claim her as an instructor and friend.

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THE PORTAL OF THE LOGANSPORT HIGH SCHOOL The main entrance of the Logansport High School tells in stone, the purpose of education: To implant within each individual student high ideals and to assure -through the struggle of attaining them a joy in living. This threshold might be called an example of Gothic architecture. Picture the magnificent examples of Gothic architecture in the facades of such cathedrals as Am- iens, Rheims, Notre Dame of Paris and then imagine the derision the medieval monks and builders would accord this statement. Its claim, however, to the Gothic style of architecture rests on four details: its recessed portalg its two grotesque figures, carved bats, on the thrust above and to the east and west of the archg its pointed archg and the florescent design at the top and the sides of the arch. Through its symbolism the Gothic style is appropriate for a school threshold. The recessed arch implies welcomeg in contrast with the grotesque figures, always present in Gothic architecture, symboli- cal of the evil of the world, there is the arch pointing heaven ward, significant of the attainment of high ideals. The carved ornamentations accompanying the curve of this arch symbolize the beauty attending' a life of high endeavor.