Oneida Community High School - Mohawk Yearbook (Oneida, IL)

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FACULTY Our democracy demands citizens who will think and act independentlyg citizens who will know the difference between partisan propaganda and unbiased factg citizens who have the courage and intelligence to deal with vital problems of our day. The schools were established for the purpose of devel- oping citizens: training for vocations, use of leisure, and self enjoyment are all secondary to training for intelligent participation in our democracy. Your high school education will have been a failure if, while studying Caesar, Shakespeare, Euclid, Napoleon, and Emmerson, you have not learned your responsibility to your government, to your fellowman, to yourself, and to your God. .EWAJ 21. ,Any work is easy or difficult according to what we nake up our minds it will be. If we determine that it will be easy for us, it will be seg if we decide beforehand, that the work will be difficult, nothing can change the situation for us. Therefore, it is up to us, as to whether or not we will find our work pleasant or otherwise. Be ready to accept suggestions from others, bu:AZ2jl2e your own problems. The person who learns early to follow directions saves himself and others a great deal of grief. Thinkg then act A good loser generally loses. Unless you go into your task with all your heart, you are not likely to win. The world might forgive the poor loser, but never, the man who hasn't given his best effort. How m eh better the world would be if we all earned to accept the responsibility of our own defeats. ow much easier it is to account for them by convincing ourselves that they were the fault of someone else--our parents didn't provide us enough opportunities,c our teachers were preju- diced against us, our friends didnlt understand us, our emp ploycrs didn't appreciate our true worth, or finally our government wasn't so unjust we'd be sitting on top of the world, Too bad wo waste time blaming others when we should be using it correcting ourselvesfn r 0?

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Miss Helen E. Frey 'Mr. Graham Pogue Miss Margaret Ravenscroft A, B, Augustana B. S. Monmouth Ph- B-1 ' M- C011eg9 College University of Chicago University of Iowa UniV6l Sity of Iowa Mr. Donald M. Sharpe Miss Lucille M. Tatman A. B. Monmouth A. B. Lombard College College University of Iowa A. M. University of Chicago PHGH SCHOOL FACULTY Mr. Donald Sharpe, Principal......Engl1sh IV, Science Miss Helen E. Frey ....... ..... ............ Commercial Mr. Graham Pogue............. ...Mathematics, Physics Miss Margaret Ravenscroft.... ........Lat1n, History Miss Lucille M. Tatman..... ....Economics, English

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GRADEfACUUY In my teaching I try to instill in my pupils a desire to do the best they can by putting forth ell the effort they hsveg then their results whatever they nre, are commendable. I try to get the children to understand that what they are going to get out of school, depends upon what time and effort they put forth in trying to learn. IHMJQLMJ There are two things I endeavor to bring out aside from regular class room studies. The first is that each child do his best and that all work be his own. If his work is fer from perfect, it is nc- coptsble ifhe does it himself. 1 The second is that boys and girls take responsibility for their own acts. It is better to acknowledge a wrong not than to pass the blame to some other person. Of course, the child should be careful not to let the some thing happen a second time. ail4,f.,.Q6, C . dfffweded Ibuld that every child might learn that it is noble to be true to the faith entrusted in himg that truth should never be sacrificed at any costg cleanliness of body and mindg to use to the very best advantage the intellect given himg the importance of-todly's lessonsg to have u love for his country and for his felfcfwmeng the significnnceof the courtesies of life, and to hold in truer reverence his God. 0 f.H 5 , ,jd?'4'ijft 'N 7-717, '4--tru' Lhy every pupil learn the plcnsure and sntisfuction found in the possession of worthwhile knowledge gained by honest study. May he see thot if he cheerfully puts his best effort into every task assigned, his reward becomes greater and his task easier as the your passes. new Music is 8. powerful igctor in the creating of true homes, and in raising boys and girls into poise, balance and spritual grace sufficient to counteract the dangers of the present materialistic, mechanical ere. - He1en'Bates