Shoals Community High School - Shocom Yearbook (Shoals, IN)

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Students heed administrators' advice X Mr. Glenn E. Keefe l Superintendent ffefe For the past twelve years - since the fall of 1958 -' you have attended and completed elementary and secondary school. Now you are ready to pur- sue whatever your goals are. These goals may be of a social and economic nature. However, .without spiritual goals as guidelines all other accomplish- ments may be of little value. Cultivate these three spiritual values - hope, faith and charity - the greatest being charity. You are living in the so-called good old here and now, the action age so to speak -life is to be lived, not merely talked about. You are approach- ing and entering the swinging seventies with a high school diploma in your hands which may well serve as the key to open doors of opportunity for you. By hard work, close attention to details, enthusiasm, and dedication to your work, you may accomplish your objectives which are immediate and for the future. The word education comes from the Latin word, educate, meaning to bring up. Let us hope that it will bring you up beyond yourself into a world of service above self - to help others less fortunate than you - striving and searching for truth and doing good for those with whom you come in contact. Try to make this world a better place in which to live because you have been a part of it - this will truly be a life where the action is, has been, and will ever be. Qzaamfcgaa What is happening today? For each of us, what has happened and what is happening affects to a great degree what will happen throughout our lives. Life is full of both success and failure, and we each control to a consider- able degree which it will be in our lives. Yes, there are many stumbling Mr. Raymond Jones blocks strewn in our pathg but each individual must decide what he will do about them. From earliest times, history records that some in each generation of youth blames the older generation for everything that is wrong and gets impatient to take over. To those in this generation of youth, the older generation is telling you to be patient. Your elders do not plan to step aside and turn the world over to you yet. You will have control soon enoughg and then you had better come up with better proposals than your generation has so far, or you will find your children leveling the same charges and accusations at you that you have leveled at your eldersg and they will be asking you to step aside and let them take control. Your elders do not believe that this will happeng because they know that with age comes experience, maturity, patience, understanding, and wisdom. And when you have these, you will understand why the older generation does as it does because then you will be that generation. First, get an education. Have something to believe in. Set goals to achieve. Speak out against injustice. Be patient and wait your turn. Life - It's What's Happening. High School Principal 43

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Board makes decisions that affect school Bernard Harker, memberg Donald Simmerman, vice-presidnetg Virgil Purkhiser, presidentg Inez Sorrells, secretaryg and Lister Lee Harding, member. The School Board of The Shoals Community Schools is the focal point of the school. In the Board Room, decisions are made that affect the entire student body today and in the years to come. These people are entrusted with the responsi- bility of making rules and regulations that efficiently guide the school system. Great care must be taken in preparing these fundamental principles. At the meetings, which are held on every other Thursday, careful consideration is given to each proposal before it is enacted into an official school rule. MRS. BETTY SALMON MRS. JOYCE KIRK Secretary to Secretary to The position of a School Board member demands much time and energy. Special meetings are often called to reach a decision on a matter of immediate importance. Two of the school board members' tenns expire on July 1, 1970. These are Mrs. Inez Sorrells, and Donald Simmerman. In the 1970 election, Mrs. Inez Sorrells was re-electedg and Glen Dexter Cundiff was elected to replace Donald Simmerman. The rest of the school board members remain the same. MRS. NORMA WADE MRS. WILMA KIDWELL Secretary to Secretary to MR. GLENN KEEFE MR. RAYMOND JONES MR. SAM HARMON MR.. JAMES I. WILSON

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Principals express thoughts for tomorrow Life-It's What's Happening is meant to be a ringing affirmation that these Mr. Sam Harmon are exciting times in which we live, and so they Iare.'Techho1ogical Advance- ments come so fast that knowledge learned today may be obsolete in a decade. More has been learned in the past fifty years than in all of previous recorded historyg and still more incredibly, more may be learned in the next twenty- five than has been learned up to the present time. Our generation put a man on the moon, and almost before he returned, we were talking of going to Mars. Yes, life is happening, and it's happening very fast. These are changing and exciting times. One need not argue whether such change is good. It is inevitable. Very likely, the ever-increasing complexity of our society will make edu- cation play a progressively more important role in our lives. Education can help enable us to make the continuing adjustments brought about by such rapid technological, and its accompanying social, change. Since life is what's happening, we need to do our best to prepare for life. That is what education is all about. K Middle School ' Principal Life-It's What's Happening is a true statement. The activities of a baby comprise his early life. His actions, his meals, his laughing, his crying, his sleeping, his training, and the many other things he does set the pattern for his full life in his formative years. A child in the elementary school, secondary school, and school of higher education will be influenced by each day's instruction, each day's assignments, and each day's preparation. This is Mr. James I. Wilson Life and It's Happenings and it can be a happy life or it might be a disappointing life. The philosophy that many people use to have that Education is the pre- paration for life is not believed by most people, but the philosophy that Edu- cation is life is universally accepted. One's service to his country, the choice of his work, the discovery of friends, the choosing of a mate, the starting of a new home, and the rearing of children are important parts of Life and It's Happening. Our country has a great heritage in the righ lives of our Pilgrim Fathers and our ancestors. Are the Happenings in our lives today adding honor, prestige, and glory to our country's history? Service, cooperation, loyalty, obedience, and love for fellowmen are good traits for Life and It's Happenings. The opposite of the above characteristics would be detrimental to an individual and his country. Life is a continuous process of growth and the making of decisions and the older we become the more decisions we must make. ' Let us apply the theme, Life-It's What's Happening, to the spiritual and religious life. We should realize how important is the training and influence re- ceived from the Church. The Bible teaches that all children of God owe an allegiance to Him and the Church. The Happenings of Life are not complete if one isn't serving Him regularly and to the best of his ability. Elementary Principal 44