Olney Area High School - Olnean Yearbook (Olney, IL)

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3 l lottrcl Clf flclztcrttiozz lQ+lc - IO-I0 nun usnngxgauuv Kill Qu From left to right: Robert Ulm, Bernard Schick, R l Fritschle, R L Blackburn, President, Gerald Kermicle, William F. Lathrop, Secretary, and Elmer Fleming -YIELDING PLACE TO NEW -Tennyson ' lf a great change is made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it, the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Fvery fear and hope will forward it . . . -Burke Heirs of a dual educational experience, but possessing a firm mandate from the people to consider public education at whatever' grade level as an integer, the new board of education faces a most crucial task. The physical plant and the educational community now are a unit in fact. The resources of two-thirds of a county can be rnarshaled to bring to every child wherever he lives or whoever he is the equal opportunity to achieve that which his interests and abilities lead him to do. As he passes from infancy to childhood, and through adolescence to adulthood, and grows continuously to assume finally his full responsibilities as a citizen of his community and the world, so must he be guaranteed a continuous educae tional experience geared to his development, unbroken by aaps extraneously imposed. The shift from problems which are tangible and physical to those which involve the intangible and the mental often may seem either unimportant or insurmountable. But persistent faith will find the means to achieve its goals Principal f. l-l. Cherry 44 6 rs -3,

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lTUlll'Il CDf flcliicutimz lQ-l7- IO-lb 3 From left to right: fudge Donovan D. McCarty, Attorney, Allen Calvert, Frank C. Weber, Chester Scherer, Bob Murray, President, Robert Blackburn, Iohn Williamson, I. H Cherry, Principal' and T. C. Colvin, Secretary. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH- The year of 1947-1948 was a year of consummation in the drive to forge a physical pattern which would insure the ultimate in educational advantages. The school year of 1947-48 inherited from its predecessor enviable accom- plishments in educational progress. The old Olney Township High School with its forty-two square miles of territory became .the Olney Area High School with a district comprising two hundred and fifty-seven square miles, offering opportunities to all alike through an extensive system of student transportation. ln the vaults were 595U,UOU in bonds dedicated to the erecf tion of an adequate school plant. Movement was discernible at the element- ary school level, also, where some sixty-four grade school districts joined to become the East Richland Consolidated Elementary School, embracing an area almost identical to the high school district. These heritages furnished the challenge for l947'48, and on March 5, l94S, the people in the eastern two-thirds of Richland County met that chal- lenge by voting i256 to 426 in favor of the establishment of the East Richland Community Unit District No l, This action at the polls placed the entire program of education in six townships in the hands of one board and one administration. cc5v

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JLICIIII ll Llterry BEd our urtnupal tx an actlve member o tlle lxotary Cub and the Ann rtcan Lea on Work on tlxe Untt System took up a meat part o lux tune tus year l1 tenlna to CBS Was There tx a avutte pawtnne llIlSll'llflOll I 'Vlr 1 l-l Cherry Prlnctpal Mr, l.. 'lf Clark Assistant Principal Q72 L C rl: BS teacllee aartculture and te co sponsor o tl1e FFA H15 work wttt tlte FFA has been a pleasant CXFGFIGUCG tlns year l-le belonas to the Rotary Elks and American Lealon Geol oay and carnptng are two of lns many l1Obb1GS