Strafford High School - Torch Yearbook (Strafford, MO)

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rf-' .,, 4. - 3 Ell N Hff d Secretary to Superintendent A h Q a d This issue of the TORCH is appropriately dedicated to the Strafford Community. The educational program of the Strafford Public Schools is determined by the community. Mr. Q Mrs. Citizen, Strafford are partners in a self-governing country. They pay their taxes for order, justice, protection, education, and the other services that good government provides. Whatever they seek they are free in their quest to find. They believe that their children through freedom and justice will help establish the progress of America. Thus in the blessings and obligations of citizenship they share daily and hourly. We have seen these duties of citizenship in one generation take on a new dimension--that of world leadership. Reluctantly we come to accept a larger share of world problems. Human values throughout the nations of the world are the same as in our own Lawrence J. Ghan Superintendent community. Now that communism threatens the security of our nation, we feel a new appreciation for public education because public education is a sobering force in our unsettled world. America upon her public school system as the means by which our are trained to carry on the responsibility of keeping The Strafford Community-with thousands of other school making it possible for the American heritage to live on leans heavily young citizens America great. communities-is

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il Education UO President Vlce presldert funn: li Frank Potter Paul Noore Secretary reasurer J F FOOKSLOO1 to Board James Stow 4

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