Steele High School - Annual Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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STEELE SPOTLIGHT

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6 Editor-in-Chief ......... STEELE SPOTLIGHT . . . . .William Selz Associate Editor-in-Chief ..,.... Robert Forsberg Business Manager .......... Frederick Tourkow Assistant Business Managers William Gans and Edwin Charlesworth Junior Business Manager. ........ Bruce Witwer Sophomore Business Manager ...... Robert Kany Assistant Sophomore Bu john siness Managers Shively and Boris Sokol Senior Local Editor ............. Virginia Brien Junior Local Editor ...... .... K atherine Boose Sophomore Local Editor ....... Harriet Beckwith Alumni Editor ......... Exchange Editor .... Art Editors Betty Flick, Kather . . .Virginia Van Dyke . . .. . .Fred Hobbs ine Lohman, Ruth Mayer Society Editor .................. Frederic Crist Society Editor .... Athletic Editor. . . Athletic Editor ....... Circulation Manager. . . . . .Ruth Aszling , . . . ,Arthur Valpey . . . .Dorothy Wardlow ... . . . . .Milton Graham Assistant Circulation Managers Robert Lang and Rufus Lisle Junior Circulation Manager ....... James Jacobi F Assistant junior Circulation Manager. .John Reed Sophomore Circulation Manager ...... Ted Levy Science Editor .................. Everett Smith Contributing Editor .... ..... D orothy Dean ADVISERS Miss Mary Alice Hunter Miss Faye Cleveland Miss Frances Hunter Miss Wilmah Spencer BOARD OF DIRECTORS VVilliam Selz, Chairman Robert Lang Wilmer Lewis Ruth Mayer Erma Gillam Marjorie Ashworth Betty Chatterton Mary Lou Hallam Ruth Lowery Marguerite Miller

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8 STEELE SPOTLIGHT LOOKING BACKWARD With the senior class about to graduate, it is natural that their thoughts should be centered on the subject of what the future may offer. Since school is being left behind forever by some of us who will not continue our education, it may be well to look back once more on the twelve years that we have spent preparing ourselves for the world. If these years have been unprofitable, the rea- son lies within our own character. It is the con- ventional attitude to sneer at the modern educa- tional system and its training of future citizens. But a discerning person sees that the contempt should be directed toward the scoffers and not the school. While it may not approach perfection, the present system allows individual initiative to function and thus permits the development of per- sons capable of developing. Even a Plato or an Aristotle' could not make outstanding citizens of a class of duncesg yet even a mediocre teacher can aid in the developing of a race of brilliantly intelligent beings. Fortunately or otherwise, we are neither dunces nor geniuses. We have attained a golden mean, and our educational system has adapted itself to our standards. When a sup- posedly brilliant student chafes because he con- siders himself held back by the slowness of his companions, he should be reminded that education is intended to maintain the average and elevate the mediocre. If he is really outstanding, he can find in the existing system the stimulus for per- sonal work outside of school that will prove his claim to exceptional qualities. If we have found these years unpleasant, we have no person to blame but ourselves. Whether we are serious students, athletes, or aspiring social lions-all of us certainly belong to one of these classifications-we shall never again find such an opportunity to develop our ambitions as in school. From now on, other displeasing elements in life will interrupt our activities in one particular line. We shall never again live in a condition where the student may concentrate on his work, if he so desires, from the time he rises until he retires, where the athlete may exhibit his prowess to a more admiring and at the same time friendly group, where the social light may live in such close contact with hundreds of varying personali- ties. To the person who has not derived real bene- fit from his school life and the condition of living that it permits, the future can promise little. But to the person who has taken advantage of his opportunities, the world will offer further chances of advancement. I THE CLASS OF 1934 Nearly three years ago, the Class of 1934 en- tered Steele. We felt strange in our new surround- ings, but finally adjusted ourselves to our environ- We have learned to know our teachers, by their skilful guidance and friendly ad- made our studies both interesting and in- ment. who, vice, structive. The courses opened to us have given us the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the divergent interests of life. We have had the privilege of electing subjects suitable to our indi- vidual aptitudes and desires. Now we are looking forward to a practical way of fulfilling our ambi- tions. Like other graduating classes of Steele, we have felt the same comradeship, the same loyalty, the same hopes and the same joys. No matter how much we objected to our lessons and assignments, we have always felt a desire to progress and to de- velop ourselves for the service of others and for