River Rouge High School - Vigilant Yearbook (River Rouge, MI)

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av- wigwx- A xv- - I HARVEY M. ROSA PRINCIPAL THE PRlNCIPAL'S MESSAGE FOR THE CLASS ANNUAL FOR l936 Not so many years ago a high school education was measured largely in dollars and cents. This situation came about while the lower bracket in the labor scale was open for young people to step into without displacing some adult, and the wage scale was such that it was an easy matter to show in actual, com- parative figures the economic status of young people of varying degrees of academic training. Today all this is changed. The age limit is rising and, no doubt, will continue to rise for some years so that the dollar-and-cent value is no long- er a good measuring stick . What justification is there for the young person to spend these four formative years in attending high school 'Z First, of course those who plan a college career must have this period of preparation. , Second, the larger high schools offer a sufhcient amount of preparation in commercial training, industrial work, and printing, to enable graduates to enter the world well above what would otherwise be the beginning level. Third, every possible effort is made to assist the young person to discover any hidden talent and to plan a program which will permit him to begin a ffzunilation for developing this talent. Fourth, we are to be citizens of a very complex society which demands nineh hy way of human understanding, cooperation, ellort, and the give-and-take ot' competition. i s l These years in high school are a great training ground, if you please, for the Game of life. Fifteen

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ALEXANDER MCDONALD SUPERINTENDENT Fourteen THE EDUCATIONAL FUNCTION OF EXTRA-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IN THE MODERN HIGH SCHOOL The normal adolescent is not much concerned with the ultimate objectives in education. Unless he secs some immediate application or use of the knowledge that he acquires he soon loses interest in further study. 'Fo supply that stimulation extra-curricular activities came into general recognition. There is psychological compensation afforded the student through the medium of non-academic ventures. With impression must go expression. Passive or rote-learning as such soon becomes nauseating to him. Moreover the extra-school activities serve as agencies through which he can evaluate his own worth, End his aptitudes. cultivate his tastes, and satisfy his Wishes. In other words they serve as means to acquire self- control, self-appraisal and self-direction. To the achievement of those Worthv ends and at the same time meet diverse capacities and needs River Rouge high school fosters about forty school organizations that are non- academic in character. , ,lm H- W 5

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J. I. Harrington ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL HEAD OF SOCIAL SCIENCE DEP'T University o f Michigan B. A. and M. A.g -Studied at Wisconsin and Pittsburg. Warren H. Webb SOCIAL SCIENCE Michigan State Normal College B. A.g University of Michigan M. A. Paul Randall SOCIAL SCIENCE Michigan State Normal College B. A.g Wayne University B. S. M. A. Sixteen Tracy F. Denningei' SOCIAL SCIENCE Ferris Instituteg Michigan State Normal College B. A. John McNamara SOCIAL SCIENCE University of Michigang Wayne University B. S. John R. Osborn SOCIAL SCIENCE A l b i o n College B. A.g Detroit City College B. S.g graduate student at Wayne University.