Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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It is a far cry from the days of Horace Mann, the Father of the American Public School System, to the days of our years. So many great changes have been wrought that a student of today's schools can find but a small resemblance to the schools of yesterday. The immediate future holds in store for us just as many changes, and they may be just as great. The democratic way of life is now winning the warg a war that has challenged its very existence. As the progress of the war brings victory closer, people are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the preservation of all that we gained in this war, yes, even of the democratic way of life itself, will depend upon education. As teachers, we have passed the period of postwar planning and are now endeavoring to plan educa- tion for an enduring peace. Our aim will be to plan for a world order, and to teach the youth in this new order a sense of responsibility for the prevention of further war and the establishment of peace on earth among men of good will. The teaching of tomorrow will not be the teaching of a subject for the subject's salxeg nor will it be the teaching of democracy and its high ideals. We have talked much about them. As the educators of tomorrow, we must now practice these ideals. The stu- dents must be trained for usefulness in various fields. They must be taught a mastery of skills that will enable them to earn an honest living, and at the same time develop a phil- osophy of life for themselves, which will enable them to appreciate clean, healthy living together with others. The teachers in the public schools are largely responsible for the way the citizens of tomorrow will accept the inevitable changes that come with the post- war world. Such acceptance would be a victory for education and that Victory would mean the end of wars. ' Q' -'1 M 5 Ng ii J :ze ll nik? 0 f 31,45 lvl? QA! WW If an --- Y' - I X K .I,'.,. I ...,-. , :V 5 h if ,..,., I XX :I .-1 i... . fy '--,-.,,,: E..E'l : 'i' A ' A ',:. ..., ....' .. 'nv ' r a ' ' 2 'Q

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D. R. BAKER A. B., Miami: M. A., University of Cincinnati Reliably holding the reins of our school this year is one of our former faculty members, Mr. D. R. Baker, now principal. He has made an excellent start in carrying out the duties of his newly appointed position. Mr. Baker's career began at Martins Ferry, where he coached and taught mathematics. When he later moved to Anderson, Indiana, he taught these same subjects along with physics. Then in succession he became teach- er, principal, and superintendent of the Ham- ilton schools. His final position, before ar- riving in Middletown as Supervisor of In- dustrial Education, was as Supervisor of the U. S. W. P. W. program in Cincinnati. PRINCIPAL A stranger entering the halls of M. H. S. and meeting Mr, B a k e r would immediately think, Here is a man of chiv- alry, indeed . Our new prin- cipal certainly has the ability of smoothing out the roughest situation. His kindly advice has made many erring students mend their ways. Although Mr. Baker was new to most students at the beginning of the year, he is now not only known to all, but is liked by each and everyone. l