Marissa High School - Yearbook (Marissa, IL)

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Leiter From State H. S. Supervisor FRANCIS G. BLAIR, Superintendent STATE OF ILLINOIS Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction SPRINGFIELD DECEMBER 11th. 1929. Principal George H. Thompson. Township High School, Marissa, Illinois. Dear Mr. Thompson: This is a report on my inspection of the Marissa Township High School December 6, 1929. Presented below you will find the various items under consideration at the time of my visit. Detailed information regarding these matters is to be found in our bulletin on Standards for Recognized High Schools in Illinois. School Plant-Enlarged and improved in recent years. At present the building takes care of your school needs in a satisfactory way. Instructional Equipment-wUp to standard in every particular. I was very well pleased with the orderly arrangement in your laboratory, business quarters, and manual training shop. Library-Excellent and well kept. Your high school has one of the best libraries I have ever seen in a school of this size. Its growth should continue, however, and I suggest that you keep up the regular annual appropriation of 5270. School Records-Satisfactory. I understand you are keeping the records in a fire proof filing case or safe. School Citizenship-Good. Your pupils were respectful and seemingly interested in high standards of scholarship and conduct. Preparation of Teachers-Meets all requirements. All of your teachers hold college de' grees and have been well placed in the particular field or Helds in which they have had special training. Instruction4A high grade in every particular. I am very pleased to advise you that we are renewing the recognition of the Marissa. Town' ship High School for a period of three years, closing june 30th, 1933. This is the highest rating given to any public high school by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It has been given because of the fact that your people have not been satisfied with just average conditions but are striving toward superior conditions. In nearly every particular you have gone beyond minimum requirements and I trust you will maintain the same high standard in the future. Thanking you for a pleasant visit and with best wishes for a happy holiday season, I am Sincerely yours, HARRY M. THRASHER, State High School Supervisor. 1221

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Rims and Achievements We, the Class of 1930, arriving at this point in quest of higher education, feel that we have lived up to our motto: Life is what we make it , and besides that we feel that the past four years have, in part, prepared us to live up to that standard in the future. We know it to be a fact that to be considered educated one must have not only class work, but various side activities. The members of our class have taken part in the various intellectual and athletic contests, and have helped to keep our school in its present standing among Illinois High Schools, in addition to keeping their regular school work above the average. For example our debate team was very sucf cessful, considering the fact that it was our first year, none of the debaters having had any previous training along that line. Our class has established a very good rep' utation for presenting plays, and the town and community have responded prompt' ly to any entertainment offered by the Class of '3O. In addition to our aims and achievements in this school, a great number are planning to attend some college in the near future, and we not only expect but we are confident that we can master the work put before us in any institution and by doing so place higher the reputation of the Marissa Township High School. However, we do not intend to live on our reputation. With each member realiz' ing that Life is what we make it , we shall begin each day and each task with new zeal and be satisfied with nothing except forward motion. Although other classes shall take our place, the days when the flag of Blue and White reigned supreme shall not be forgotten. -VERNON ANDERSON. I 21 1

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Wlno's Who Of our High School we're very proud, .Our colors always flying highs The Orange and Black of M. H. S. Stream out in pennants toward the sky. The faculty has had in hand The shaping of our lives, you knowg Has taught us in the ways of life 0'er which we soon shall go. Mr. Thompson, our principal, Has been here through our high school years of four, And for the sake of those who follow us We hope he'll be here many, many more. In science Mr. Runkwitz shines, He knows science from A to Z. His subjects, Chemistry and Physics, Zoology and Botany. The fine way Miss Pergande teaches Must not be forgotten By her pupils, nor her subject, Which is nothing less than Latin. Miss Stockton teaches English And in this she does excel, She can quote from Shakespeare, Keats and Burns And Tennyson quite as well. Mathematics? Go to Mr. Speer, On your questions he'll throw light, And with Algebra and Geometry Helll try to set you right. Miss Mueller's line? Commercial work! Bookkeeping, Typing, Shorthand. She can keep books like an expert And type to beat the band . Miss Linkenhelt can sing quite well, And ranging up and down the scale, Her music makes you feel as though You are listening to a nightingale. Our athletic Coach is Mr. Floyd. He keeps the boys in trim, So that when they face the enemy They can do naught but win. And now that the faculty Has been defined as worthy, We will introduce the members Of the Class of nineteenfthirty. E233