South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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,S70lfLfA SOI? if Olflfelf' MVVC all fel! we had a part in llie management of flue place, and in sustaining its cliaracter and dignity. Hence, we soon became warmly attaclued to it-I am sure I did for one, and I never knew, in all my time, of any boy being otherwise-and learnt with a good will, desiring to do it rreditf, Thus wrote Charles Dickens in 1849, and so think we who have been privileged to attend South Side for four years. After thinking about it for a while, we find that the reasons we have been willing to stay here are decidedly similar to those Dickens expressed about the school he attended. The holding power of South Side, that is, the quali- ties that make the students interested enough in the school to stay here for four years and get as much as they can out of the time they spend here, is very strong. In the faculty, which has a part in the man- agement of the place , we have found warm friends and cheerful advisers. After we entered the doors for the first time we soon became warmly attached to the placev, for we were caught up in the many activities offered in the school. We discovered that school could furnish fun and teach us something at the same time. In every sport we found the teams desiring to do it credit , and those of us who could not take part in them trying to do the sam: thing in the cheering section. In every class we learnt with a good will , for we were taught that education is essential. In every act 2 around school-in class, in center hall, at games, wherever we were-we found ourselves sustaining its character and dignity. Why is South Side so good? Vffhy does it produce fine scholars as well as sportsmen? Why does it offer good classes and clubs? There are three reasons to answer these and many other Why? questions about South Side. First, we must pay tribute to the citizens of Fort Wayne, for they are interested in education and see that their children get the best possible train- ing. Secondly, three lanes of work are provided here, the student may take the type of work best suited to his or her needs and abilities. The third reason is highly important. The school, is maintaining a steady program of emphasizing the desirability of completing one's high school work. X Enough of cold reasoning? Perhaps, so let us look at the feelings of those who are about to leave the halls of Archerdom. ' We've been here four years-four too-brief years filled to the brim with basketball and football games, club meetings, dances, and, of course, classes. A few years from now when we look back on the time we spent here, welll think that four ,years were a mighty short time. We might be inclined to wonder just what we liked about South Side. For most of us that would be a difficult question to answer, since so many things happen here that are wholesome, interesting, and educational. It is these events and activities, coupled with the well-planned and executed scholastic