Mendota High School - Atodnem Yearbook (Mendota, IL)

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CA? '57 5 XS' b X 'QM ml 4 1 -vw' ,ijff 'gf W, , fc- s LX x 4 X A 2 '7 GA' 'J .X . Q r.-gf W? ENpoTA's FIRST ATODNEM was printed as the consolidation ol the East and West high schools took place. During the past fifty years, rapid changes have taken place everywhere in the world. Many changes have also taken place at Mendota High School since the first yearbook publication. ln the following pages the 1961 Atodnem staff points out these changes and gives you a then and now approach to the people Hlty wamlerful years at MH

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W TODNEM 1911 -1961 GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITIUN published by the senior class Mendota High School Mendota, Illinois

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Fifty years later . IN THE SPRING of 1911 the first issue of the Atod- nem was published under the leadership of Elmer Feik as Editor-in-Chief. In one of the essays pub- lished therein, written by Mr. Feik, we find this state- ment: Many people think education is valuable only in that it fills the mind with knowledge . . . In this they greatly err. The knowledge thus acquired is useful, but that is not the only thing, Education develops . . . keen and bright minds. The mind . . . is not a store- house . . . but it is an instrument to be . , . fitted for the highest uses. This point of view, fully as significant in 1951 as it was in 1911, has undoubtedly guided the thinking and planning of board members, administrators, teachers and citizens who have for these fifty years given their best to the education of the youth of the Mendota community. It is, indeed, appropriate that we pause a moment to pay tribute to all of those people who have over the years made contributions to the development of this school as an instrument of the community in order that the minds of the youth might be Ufitted for the highest uses. Mendota I-Iigh School was born out of the desire of the citizens of Mendota to cooperate in providing the best possible secondary education for their chil- dren, and out of the realization that this purpose could better be achieved through unselfish cooperation. This same desire to provide the best, and this willingness to cooperate, have been characteristic of the com- munity for half a century, resulting in the continued maintenance of a school with high standards of ac- complishment. The reputation of Mendota High School is attested by its continued membership in and un- qualified approval by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the regional ac- crediting association covering nineteen states of Mid- America, since 1918, During the span of years from the publication of 'Volume One-Nineteen Eleven to the Fiftieth Anni- versary edition many changes have occurred. The dis- trict has expanded to a sprawling 201 square miles, enrollment has grown from ninety-two to more than six hundredg the program of studies changed in an effort to better meet the needs of the present school population. Further changes will be required in the years ahead if the educational needs of the young people are to be served as well in the future as they have been in the past. Perhaps our most ambitious wish in 1961 may well be that this school may continue to serve its proper purposes as well in its second fifty years as it did in its firstg that the minds of those who pass through its doors may, indeed, be fitted for the highest uses. A,c,i,QZ