Mendota High School - Atodnem Yearbook (Mendota, IL)

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S. .T. HAIGHT

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Our Growth HERE is no one associated with the High School, not even the last freshman to enter, who has not seen abundant evidence of the enlargement and improvement of the beautiful home in which he lives. One does not have to go back far-it seems as though it were only the other day-to the time when we were divided into two buildings, both entirely out of date, when there was not a foot of paved street in the city, when there were numerous board and cinder walks where the cement walks now are, and when there were white picket fences in front of many of our best homes, that strangers were prone to think primitive enough. These have all given way to a plan that in extent and utility is not often excelled in such small cities. Students have multiplied more rapidly than the accommodations of the High School have enlarged. The time can very easily be recalled when a new student was a prize of such precious quality that there was great temptation to seek him out and every inducement was put forward to persuade him to come in. No one could be turned away for anything short of felony, for the thought of reducing the number by even one was intolerable. But now the streets are black with youth tramping toward our new center of education, and the trouble in finding places and providing instruction for them brings on the wrinkles and turns the hair prematurely white. Various citizens have had their activities so stirred with harrowing expectations that they must lie awake nights thinking out impossible prefects for conditions which never arise, and break in upon the president of the board of education at unseeming hours in the gray of the morning with demands that could never be, and happily never have to be met. Not only has the plant enlarged, and not only have students multiplied, but the work has increased and intensified commensurately, and very likely it has done even better than that. The instructional force has been doubled in four years, the courses of study have been arranged to meet the require- ments of the most ambitious or ingenious high school student. Now, in all seriousness, conditions have arisen which call for reflection. The work of a factory may be measured by the size of the buildings and the number of its workmen, but the work of a school is not gauged by such standards. It was important for us to create a constituency and to gain sup- port, for we could not have followed the course we did without doing so. It Eight