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

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1373360 A Vision, A Product TABLE OF CONTENTS Athletics page 50 Organizations . . Seniors page SO Underclassmen . . . page 110 . page 148

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The modern high school is as different from that of a short generation ago as a present-day business is different from the primitive barter of our pioneer days. No other institution is charged with greater responsibility in the forming of the ideals of our' boys and girls. It is during their high school age that these boys and girls are formulating the ideals which are to lead them through life. It is during this period of life that they receive their most lasting impressions. 'Y ith these words R. Nelson Snider accepted the problems of educator. Mr. Snider came to South Side with a vision, at he would one day see this educational instit e «eat responsibilities entrusted to it and ca siigations to the youth of America. The vision has been achieved! South Side is renown a of the nation's finest high schools, and Mr. Snider is recog as the person behind the product. His strong motives, standards, unrelenting determination, and acute foresight enabled thousands of young people to enter into the adult i well-equipped to meet the challenges of modern times. And though there can be no more noble tribute to a great man than the lives he has benefited, the 1963 Totem is dedicated with deepest gratitude to principal Mr. R. Nelson Snider, retiring after thirty-seven yea rs of service to South Side High School. R. Nelson Snider Academics . . . page IS Administration . . page 38

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Principal R. Nelson Snider discusses what he believes to be the power of knowledge with a parent at the Senior Reception. Not only at this event but constantly throughout the seasons for thirty-seven years, Mr. Snider insilled within others the importance of an education, the desire . . .