Marengo Community High School - Yearbook (Marengo, IL)

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The faculty of MCHS for the year of 1950 51 has exceeded nn number over all other years and they have been exceptuonally fune teachers puttang In great ef forts to better our education gnvung lndlvxdual guidance and taking special notuce of all actuvmes Theur tlreless efforts have been greatly appreciated by all especually the sensors The ladles un charge of food servuce have put un many hours preparing wholesome and appetlzung meals for well over 150 students a day Our custoduans are the ones to thank for keeplng our school un such fme clean condltlon Their continual job from fall to sprung conslsts of mowmg and rakung the lawn putting up storm wlndows taking them down shovelnng the walks gettung the mall and the eternal sweeping of the halls drnvlng ram bottomless mud and on slack sllppery hugh ways deserve a lot of credut They begun thenr task of pnckung up students early nn the morning and average 75 mules a day They drlve students to games after a day of work sometumes as far away as 50 miles Our school secretary IS very nmportant to our school She keeps books makes announcements signs passes and does a great many lnttle but nmportant things to help run the school She as an effuclent cheerful per son to have around Wnthout the effxclent operations of our fifteen teachers fuve bus drlvers two food preoaratuonusts two custodnans and one school secretary MCHS would not be runmng so smoothly Therefore, we the graduatung class of 51 would luke to congratulate our school personnel for the won derful lob they are dolng lSlHHllUH SCHUUL PEHSUHHEl I I - I I . I l . . I - ' I . I I The men who drive the buses through heavy snow, I - nl - - , , , . A I . . I . , . , - . I . . I . . I , . ' I

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11' .ei N Many many years ago the famous philosopher Plato said A good education consists in giving to the body and to the soul all the beauty and perfec- tion of which it is capable. The application of this great idea of Platos has changed throughout the intervening years as society has changed. But the central idea of developing the best human being possible has ever remained the goal of education. lf I am right that our American system of edu- cation is the symbol of the special contribution which this, our republic has made to the conceptof democ- cracy, then the importance of education is everlast- ingly increasing. No less a person than General Omar Bradley recently stated that the strength and back- bone of our democracy is an informed electorate. We Americans, he said, achieve this strength through widespread public education-education which prepares the citizenry for active participation and simultaneously assures their liberty, The student who has achieved the ideal of Plato and General Bradley, in my opinion, makes a citizen who is easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. lf this be true, then we in America are justified in the great faith we have placed in the great American school system, a part of which is our own Community High School. EVERETI' C NICHOLS Illinois State Normal University University of Illinois MA University of Illinois M Ed PllllllIlPHl If our high school our community our state our nation are to meet the challenges with which they are confronted then we must have the best schools and the best educational programs that we can possibly develop. The citizens of our community realize this need and have voted to repair and build to the present structure so that all the youth of Marengoland may have an opportunity to learn and develop their minds and bodies so they may be the best possible persons that they might be. So long as all American Youth have this oppor- tunity which is found nowhere else on this earth, we can be assured that the next and the next and the next Generation will not fail. To those students who are graduating, be thank- ful that you grew up in America, the land of free education. To those who are coming to this school or are returning next year, I bid you welcome and invite you to make the most of the educational op- portunities that you will find here in this beautiful and yet to be improved educational edifice, dedi- cated to the democratic concept of adequate educa- tional opportunities for all. Sincerely, E. C. Nichols