Macomb High School - Spiderweb Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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The Faculty J. I. LYNCH. Superintendent I. M. WHIG LEY. Principal Mit. BUGG Geography, Algebra, English MR. COLEMAN Physical Training MISS CALLIHAN Geography and General Science MISS DUNCAN American History MISS FULLER History and French MISS FOSTER........... English and History MISS HORTON Arilkmetu MISS KENNER ................................ Foreign Languages MISS I .A N G E N ST E IN igher Sciences MISS MAR TIN Honethold AH$ MISS McCOLLCM English and History MISS PACK English MISS SMITH ................................. History MISS THOME Social Sciences and English MRS. WALKER Higher Mathematics MISS PUR DIM Art MISS HOLDEN Nil Fifteen

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The Spider Web iqioo J. I. LYNCH Superintendent of Schools -o Macomb High School I. M. WRIGLkY Principal of High School Fvurtftn

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The Spider Web iqiq Superintendent’s Address Macomb High School To the Students of the High School: HE editor of the 191i) Spider Web” has generously given me a page for an address to you. The close of the school year is an appropriate time for looking back over the past, to review its accomplishments and to note its lessons, and for looking into the future to discern. if possible, its opportunities and its demands upon us. The past year is unique in its importance in history. The world has been dazed by the vastness of the year’s events and by the rapidity of their movement. Invincible armies have been organized and placed in the field; the enemies' hosts have lieen defeated and scattered; dynasties have been overthrown, thrones have fallen, empires have crumbled and new nations have risen out of the ruins. Chaos, famine, and epidemic have laid their burdens upon suffering humanity. The very foundations of civilization have been shaken. These great events have not left vour school life untouched. Obstacles such as you had never encountered before have tested the strength of your purposes. Happily you, like your older brothers. have risen to the demands of the occasion, and will finish this year's work successfully. But what of the future? What does it promise you and what will it require of you? It will call for men and women of great jlowers, large vision, and strong faith; men and women who can seize great op|M»rtunities. and | erform great tasks. Preparedness” is the big word in the lexicon of success. It is claimed by some that education consists in being prepared for one’s opportunities and then seizing them when they come. The past has shown that the men and women who have reached the greatest heights of achievement an those who could take advantage of great op| ortuniticH because they had prepared themselves in advance for big tasks. Goethnls. Pershing. Foch and Wilson rendered mighty service to humanity because they were prepared when the call came. Society always offers a place to him who is prepared and willing to serve. Are you preparing for these great things? This is your time for preparation; this is Youth’s golden op| ortunity. J. I. Lynch Sislet a