Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE SCHIP FRANK LOUIS SOLDAN I-HG!-I SCI-IOOI.

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TI-IE SCRIP DEAR SOLDAN Foucs: One hundred years ago the Public Schools of St. Louis began. The opening of the doors of Public School No. 1 South on April 2, 1838, was a most significant event, providing for the first time in St. Louis school opportunity open to all children, school opportunity for the first time in St. Louis as the concern of the community, a strong emphasis on the importance of education and on the obligation of the com' munity to provide in schools for its service to its children and, through them, service to the whole community and far beyond. That event pointed straight ahead to today and to the opportunities today offers in the St. Louis Public Schools to all St. Louis young folks who, through their parents, have the vision and the will to apply them' selves in use of the opportunities presented. The community has still the determinaf tion thus to make good in its obligation both to serve youth and, through them, to provide for the general welfare. Through a full century of problems, of difficulties, of dangers, of change, the development of public education has gone steadily forward with provision for addi- tional opportunities one after another until the splendid privileges enjoyed today in the public schools by St. Louis have resulted. Some of the important additions are: music, night schools, high schools, art, libraries, kindergartens, physical education, laboratories for science instruction, industrial arts, home economics, organized athletics, clubs, the hygiene department, openfair schools, sight conservation classes, vocational schools, schools for cripples, other special schools, correction of speech defects. These and many other additions to the original offerings in the public schools are ours today because wise educators and other citizens through the years have found these additions important and have insisted that they be provided for youth. How very much we have for which to be deeply grateful! How many devoted men and women have thought and planned and worked to make the glorious present possible for the splendid boys and girls of the St. Louis of today! How appropriate for each of us would be the feeling and the words of Einstein! A hundred tunes a day I remind myself that my mner and outer life depend on the labors of other men living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving The amazingly beautiful pageant showing the history of American music and revealing the achievements of St Louis high school students in the field of music is most appropriate recognition of the growth of public school education through a hundred years It reveals too something of what is being done at this time and it gives us lugh hope of continuing development in the great field of school music The opening of the doors of Public School No 1 South one hundred years ago was an event pointing also to the many many years beyond today What will be the history of the next hundred years of public education in St Louis and th next hundred and the next? Will that too be glorious in growth and development in worthiness of its giving to youth and to the general good of the community? This will be the result if the community continues in its zeal for provision of the best opportunities possible for its children if the children themselves constantly use their educational opportunities fully and if each generation holds high to its children the THIRTEEN , A is 4 sn F l a ,. wo 1 is si 'Q-. ., , .,, 24 'E' . . vi,- s - Y 5- 9 ' ' . .- 1 , , . 2' . . . . . . 'F ' t . I V . mf . , . . . . . A Q - s 9 - 9 , . . - . - - ' ' , . ' '9 , , . . . . ' 'ea . , 5 Y' 1 1 ' n 1 i 1 'A : , , . . . . . . T ki? fi 1 A y I I . . . . . . . . I 1 ,. , . 9 5 -if ' l . Q' , , , I fs- Q . ' ll.. L ' , ' Q11 ff- ' . Y K I-5, 'f A if ' - s- ,. ' ' . ' ' ' H -A4 I , pl - S bl. Sf L S-1 ali . - is '-2:iL6...t.--H.- .. '. ri, 'V ,, I. 'I ' I-l