Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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Administration Department I). Gamble, Westminster College, A. B.......Superintendent of Schools F A. Jones, Bethany College, A. B. Principal W. B. Irvine, Marietta College. A. B. Assistant Principal The taxpayers of Sharon have made an investment of nearly th ec quarters of a million dollars in the interest of high school education. This money is represented in the high school building, its furnishings and class room equipment. By the vote of the electorate the power to administer education has been vested in a Board of Education consisting of seven members. This Board, in turn, has delegated to a superintendent of schools the direct administration of education in so far as it relates to the supervision of instruction in the school. In the high school a large part of this task has been further delegated to a principal and vice principal. Courses of study have been formulated, text books have been selected which, in the opinion of supervisors and teachers, are well adapted as aids to instruction, and teachers have been chosen to guide in these subjects which comprise the curriculum. All of these factors contribute to high school education and arc indispensable, but they do not constitute a high school any more than the President and his cabinet, the members of Congress, and the various appoin t'd and elected officers of the government constitute a republic. The government of the United States is the composite of its citizens. The Sharon High School is, in reality, the composite of its students. It is granted, of course, that efficient teachers must he provided, that adequate courses of study must be mapped out, that the physical equipment, represented in comfortable class rooms and instructional apparatus, must be present to contribute their share to the scheme of education, hut after all Sharon High School is today and will be in the future, in the large, what the hoys and girls who constitute its student body make it. As I see it. there is a responsibility which rests with the student body and at the same time a challenge. The responsibility is to use to the full measure the opportunities provided by the taxpayers. This is expressed in the care of the building and its equipment, in regularity of attendance, in the faithful adherence to necessary rules and regulations and in a general co-operative spirit, all of which are expressive of appreciation for the money invested in training in citizenship. The challenge, as I see it, is to faithfully and conscientiously devote the four years of high school life to individual achievement—individual mental, moral, and spiritual growth—that every boy and girl will have the maximum preparation possible for going out into the larger activities of life or the best possible foundation for higher education. The better this challenge is m t. the more the individual and the community benefit. The better it is met today, the greater the inspiration for those who follow. Make Sharon High School Sharon’s greatest asset. W. D. GAMBLE. Eleven 7 =r