Mansfield High School - Manhigan Yearbook (Mansfield, OH)

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Future Mechanics Learn How to Apply Their Trade. NATION Students tackle Homework Session in study hall. Students work for benefit of the community. ★ ★ ★ ★ 9

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In This Business District, Many of Our Students Will Lead Their Business and Professional Lives. OUR SCHOOL - OUR TOWN - OUR The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow, and the training they receive as children determines the type of leaders they will make. Americans are proud of their great nation, and it is their wish to keep it as near to the principles upon which it was founded as possible. Realizing that it is not in the power of a mere handful of men to retain these principles, Americans have resolved that each person must shoulder his individual responsibility. However, we cannot all be Senators or Cabinet members, or fill an office where we directly control the future of our nation. Our contribution is to be good citizens and take an active interest in national and international affairs, to be self-supporting and, in turn, see that our children are capable of mastering the same difficulties we shall soon face. But one cannot assume responsibility without training, experience, and awareness as to the ensuing problems. America has turned to its schools as a means of seeing that its children gain this training and experience. Mansfield citizens have been highly successful in their efforts, for they maintain exceptional institutions of learning for their children. Their schools offer numerous and well-rounded curricula from which each student may choose those subjects which he and his parents believe will be most helpful in the shouldering of his responsibilities. It is the aim of the 1942 Manhigan to show just how Our Town strives through Our School to perpetuate Our Nation and to express gratitude for this interest in our future. 8

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I? tff A Fundamental Plan Feeling that one way of preserving: the American heritage of freedoms was through the proper education of their children, the citizens of Mansfield have erected beautiful buildings and set up an extensive program of studies to train their youth for this heritage. However, they are not content to go this far and trust to luck that someone else will see to it that their aspirations are realized. A fundamental system has been set un whereby Mansfielders can keep in constant control of their educational program. Periodically the citizens select from their number a group to carry out their wishes regarding the education of their childi-en. This group is the Board of Education, whose duty it is to select all instructors for the schools and to determine the policies of the school administration. They also select one man who serves as director for the entire system. This is the position occupied by the superintendent. Subordinate to the superintendent are two men whose duty it is to keep the school running smoothly, to determine class schedules, and procedure, and to serve as student counsellors. This double-duty job is that of our principal and assistant principal. Carrying out the wishes of the entire community through the above channels is a corps of teachers who do the actual instruction and who insure, for the youth of the city, a basic education. Thus we have a complex fundamental educational system illustrating just how Mansfield citizens and teachers all work for our benefit, simply because they are interested in our futures and in the future of America.