Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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L. B. MAYFIELD 0 There is something important about this faculty we members of the graduating class of '43 would like to say and we must say it for it comes from the hearts. For one thing, you have given without stint of your time, energy, and patience, and you have smiled, a little wearily, perhaps, when we have made your days hectic and unending. But the thing you have done which stands highest of all is that you earned our greatest respect. Up to now we have probably not said thank you, that is why we are speaking now while you are still one of us. We want to say thanks to the English teache ers, you Miss Snyder, Miss Spurgin, Mrs. Sether, Miss Phillips, and Mrs, Mills, for letting us argue out our explosive and half-formed ideas-we know what freedom of speech means because we've lived it. And we want to say thanks to you social studies teachers for making an idea called demo- cracy come right into the room with us in all its flaming glory, from Valley Forge to Casablanca. We feel that it, with its freedom of education, is of lllllllllllSlllflllllll llllll fllCUllll our heritage, you helped us see that, both Mrs, Smiths, Mrs. Olson and Mr. Taylor. To you math and science teachers-we wish there were some way we could tell you how very grateful we are for your tireless patience, your endless fortitude in explaining to a seething, blank- faced class. We realize now that perhaps we weren't the only ones who worried if we didn't un- derstand something. Perhaps you worried too - Mrs. Herron, Mrs. Butler, Mr. Cope, Mr. Hussong and Mrs. Myers. And to you music teachers, from the bottom of our hearts we feel our debt to you for your splen- did gifts to us. From pep assemblies to meetings, luncheons, dances, and radio programs, to mention only the most common, you have produced, often at a moment's notice, the right thing at the right time. Also thanks so very much to the art teacher, for those countless posters and signs that we had to have immediately, if not sooner. We're talking to you, Miss Riesch and Miss Phipps. lf 1 Am

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E g X! oa0 U i I f C e A H It may be a number of years before the full measure of value received from you commercial teachers will be fully appreciated. Future gold you have given us, money in the brain-and fingers. Thanks for the jobs your capable instruction will earn us-and for the satisfaction we have had in doing something new with just a little skill. You've been generous, Mrs. James, Miss Breeding and Mrs. Jerome. Our gratitude also to the praeceptor Latinus and the magistra Espanol -language teachers, anyway. What you have given us can never be taken away, and the sympathetic interest you have stimulated in us for people of other coun- tries will never be dulled. l hope you're listening Miss Demmer and Miss Snyder. Good sportsmanship is not an easy thing to teach, but you in the physical education depart- ment have done it completely and smoothly. Changing high school boys into fighting men can- not be done easily, but this, too, you have achieved. And thank you for showing us how to care for our bodies, and perhaps our lives. On the drill fields of our nation, or maybe in fox holes and trenches, the cycle of your priceless gifts will come full. This i l f NO f, X if I 0 5 3 is to your credit Mr. Arnold and Mr. Kirtley. But we weren't content to let you be just teachers -advisers you must be also. You must help us with our publications, yea, even when getting copy is like pulling teeth, you must turn out prize-winning debate squads and speakers, and write colossal programs for us-and, crowning glory, you have done all this, apparently gladly, and we know, very well. An apple for the teachers, then--a big one for all of them, for the big and little things that have made these short three years of high school a pleasant and a profitable lesson in life. Of course, we can say that we admire you, that we would like to show our gratitude-but that will not suffice. What then? Our futures, perhaps- they are surely yours in part. For we are your pos- terity, your heirs-you have passed the torch to us, as you do to all your classes. If we can make you proud of us, that will, perhaps, be the pay- ment of the debt. lf we can earn success, it will in a way be yours, too. And we will, most surely, for how can we lose with backers such as you! Then the scales will balance, and only then. tkPl5l XX - is E - X 0 U C A - ' T y T - 3 I l 0 N