Montpelier High School - Mirror Yearbook (Montpelier, OH)

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SUPT. H. S. MOFFITT The high standard held by our school is due to the dynamic personality and seasoned wisdom vested in Supt. H. S. Moffitt. Ten long years he has served both school and community faithful and well, always considering the needs and desires of his students before act- ing. His actions show decisiveness and fore-thought. We are indeed proud of him. Subject-Physics, Algebra, Geometry. H ome-Mt. Vernon, Ohio. School-Hiram College, Bethany. College-Columbia University. Degrees-B.S., M.A. Honors--Pi Gamma Mu. MODERN TREND OF EDUCATION Free public education is the foundation upon which our nation is built. It is the rightful heritage of every American child. It is fundamental to social welfare and to national morale. Only through education may we hope for an orderly solution of our social and economic problems. Our general welfare demands that the American program of education be main- tained and improved. This program pro- poses to provide education suited to the needs and capacities of all boys and girls through the period of childhood and youth. It is concerned not only with in- tellectual achievement but also with physical and mental health. It should offer that variety of opportunity which will make possible a maximum of achieve- ment for children who vary greatly in physical and mental capacity, in interests, and in ambitions. Its goal is the achieve- ment of equality of opportunity. This is our fundamental American philosophy. Educational aims and procedure must meet the new demands and conditions of a changing social world. We have outgrown the scope of the two present major objectives of education, namely, that of self-preservation, which includes the development of bodily vigor and the accumulation of wealth, and that of the search for truth, which is provided for by the three R's and the various sciences. The Fine Arts constitute the most ef- fective medium for this process of emo- tional enrichment and control. Music, painting, sculpture, architecture and all the minor arts of decoration and adorn- ment, which embody the laws of harmony and proportion and set forth the ideals of beauty, are now indispensable in any well-rounded, adequately conceived pro- gram of education. The absorption of their harmonizing and controlling prin- ciples and influences is absolutely essential to insure the full unfoldment of the per- sonality and the characterof our future citizens and leaders. What is required in our present schools is more time, more energy and skill de- voted to the teaching of the arts so that the third great objective of education, that of developing the spiritual of ob- jective self, may be fully realized. The school diploma of the future will attest to the student's ability in providing for his bodily needs, to his industry and accuracy in finding truth, and most im- portant it will attest to his possession of an enriched, controlled emotional nature, a quickened sense of beauty and the ability to express the subjective self. H. s. Moffm Page Eight

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BOARD IS SEVERELY TAXED BY DEPRESSING CONDITIONS Foremosf Business Men Con+rol School Plan+ Each year the Board of Education is faced with new and more perplexing problems which require untiring effort and efficiency. We are confident that these five local business men have weighed each situation with equal consideration for the school and community, and to further our interests. They have enabled us to carry on our studies and have made it possible for us to graduate from a Hrst class high school. We Seniors especially should attempt to show our appreciation of these efforts, it being so paramount to us, at the time we are to take our places in the world. We should also appreciate their effort more because their only compensation or recompense is the satisfaction derived from their knowing that they have per- A. J. Brown formed their tasks efficiently, and the knowledge of our appreciation for the regard and kindness they have displayed. Montpelier should realize the worth of this group who have managed and controlled our school system. D011 Nejf Pug? Sevru Victor Lockhart Ralph Boone W. C. Tedrow Perry Faulkner

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PRINCIPAL H. M. SHAFFER Mr. Shaffer is the refuge of the trou- bled and the advice seeker, for in him one recognizes the outstanding quali- ties of kindness and impartial judg- ment, together with the sternness nec- essary to maintain discipline. His deep affection for children and his thorough understanding of their nature have obviously warranted success in his role as our school executive. Sizlwjerl-Algebra. Home-Montpelier, Ohio. School-Heidelberg College, Ohio State University. Degrees-A.B. GIFTS The civilization which we are permit- ted to enjoy today, complex as it may be, offers many things for which we should be thankful. The gifts that are ours de- serve to be guarded with all the zeal and energy at our command. The past and the present reveal in no uncertain manner the human weakness to err and forget are most precious gifts, the home, the church and the school. That these institutions are the foundation stones upon which so- ciety in the past has prospered and upon which our present society rests, there is general agreement. Yet, to prove that security, faith and peace, products of the home, church and school, have grown to any appreciable degree would be contra- dicted by the events not only of the past but the present. The Greeks, developing a civilization whose literature, philosophy, and art have never been surpassed fell by the wayside. The Romans, a practical, unimaginative, executive type of people, contributing the fundamentals of our legal system, suffered a similar fate. Indeed, the Greeks and Romans must have perished had not Chris- tianity come to energize and save them. The task which Christianity performed cannot be measured. History reveals that as the Greeks and Romans were being con- verted, great hordes from the north, the Barbarians, had to be conquered and civ- Page Nine ilized. So great and destructive were these invasions that the priceless gifts, the home, church and school all but ceased to exist. Finally there came a renaissance, and construction in place of destruction began to control men's minds and souls. Today finds these institutions as well as all other institutions called to account. The entire world seems torn by strife and dissension, surely not a gift or the will of the Gods. No, slowly yet surely we are admitting that greed, vice, and selfishness in some form of material personal gain was the thought uppermost in our minds. The schools taught it, thinking somehow that materialism was the whole gain, the end in itself. Today we not only see the errors of our ways but are attempting to correct them. The problems are as gi- gantic as those of the dark ages, as vast as humankind itself. Let the courage 'and faith that prompted our ancestors of old to fight for the principles, beliefs 'and practices which have made these institu- tions honored and respected rise again and again. Let us finally remember that these re- spected and revered institutions are ex- ponents of the philosophy which recog- nizes that human progress rests upon gen- eral education as its greatest constructive force. H. M. Shafer