Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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THE REFLECTOR 9 Board of Education, District Thirty-three, Sheridan County, Wyoming

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8 THE REFLECTOR Sadie T. Lamb Eastern South Dakota State Teachers’ College Superintendent of Schools, Sheridan County “Our fathers founded America on the eternal principle of equality of opportunity. It is a part of this democratic movement to guarantee to all, the best there is, so far as they are able to appreciate the best. Education has an appendix—a useful one, in the study of art, dramatics, domestic science, music, vocational and physical training. THE SCHOOL’S BUSINESS IS TO TEACH PEOPLE TO LIVE BETTER. If the appendix just mentioned develops character, health, civic conscious- ness, and a wholesome use of leisure time, it has justified its place. Every football or basket ball victory, every champion speller, every penmanship award, every County Fair and Boys’ or Girls’ Club triumph, every musical, literary or dramatic effort, actuates interest in the school, generally. And largely because schools have been vitalized, there are today, 14% of the school enrollment in high school as against 1.1% forty years ago. There are 82.8% of the children between the ages of 5 and 17 in school as against 65% forty years ago. The length of the school term has increased 30% and the average number of days attended by each child has increased over 100%.

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10 THE REFLECTOR To the Girls and Boys of District Number Thirty-Three “To-day” Yesterday is gone forever. To-morrow never comes. To-day is in my own hands. If I shirk To-day’s task, I shall he adding to my wasted Yesterdays. If I postpone To-day’s duty, I shall be increasing To-morrow’s burden. If I accomplish what To-day sets before me, I shall be doing my best to atone for Yesterday’s failures, and to prepare for To-morrow’s successes. Therefore, I will endeavor so to use my time and opportunities that To-day shall leave me a little wiser and abler than it found me. Keep your mind on the great and splen- did things you would like to do; and then as the days go gliding by you will find yourself unconsciously seizing the oppor- tunities that are required for the fulfill- ment of your desires. Until your mind and your body are on fire with eagerness for the thing you want to do, you will remain a common, ordinary man. The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for initiative; doing the RIGHT thing without being told. A. I.. Iturgoon, Superintendent B. A. University of Wyoming History, Sociology, English, Bookkeeping. We like the man who likes his job and makes his efforts show it— The man who thinks good luck, and likes to let us know it; We like him for his vim with which he rushes into action, Accomplishing his daily tasks with smiling satisfaction; We like him for his hopeful way, and for his constant pleasure We think Fortune must some day reward him in due measure. High School