Sunbury School - Owl Yearbook (Sunbury, OH)

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' 1 V. W1 E F54 T H E O W L ,Que YOUR SCHOOL AND MINE To the Patrons and Friends of the School and Readers of the Owl In behalf of the teachers of the Sunbury Public Schools I wish to thank you for the many kindnesses you have rendered toward your school and mine during the past school year. Without your co-operation we could not have done the many things we have suc- ceeded to do. We have, with your help, made this school stand well in this community and high in the esteem of the other schools in this and other counties and well recommended by the State Department of Public Instruction. Our pupils have enjoyed a pleasant year. Their fellowship has been very close and the splendid co-operation of teacher and pupil has made this year's social life amiable. Contact with good teachers makes the elements of education real. The Sunbury teachers are devoted men and women whose lives are given to the task of helping boys and girls realize their highest possibilities. They aim to teach preparation for service. Their pur- pose, ideals, and motives are distinctly Christian. Their high standards of scholarship, their interest in health, social and recreational activities help to make the Sunbury boys and girls what we would like to have them. - Our school system does not narrow to any one-sided course or pursuit, but endeavors to broaden its possibilities in so far as expansion is co-extensive with good pedagogy. Each department of our school is not forgetful of their weekly or daily religious services. The first six grades hold their services in their respective rooms, while the grammar grades and the high school hold their Chapel service together regularly on Wednesday of each week. This service is frequently honored by some local or foreign visitor who speaks on current topics of interest and shares with the students the inspir- ation gained through experience. In order that the pupils may be stimulated in Literary Art the Sunbury Board of Education regularly employes a teacher in Public Speaking and Expression. The work of this teacher is required in the first six grades and is made elective in the upper six: Much interest is taken in this work and' a marked improvement in expression is noticed among the students. Each pupil is given an opportunity to appear in public at least once during the school year. November the twenty-third the public had an opportunity to hear the lower grades in an appropriate program rendered at the Opera House. While the gram- mar grades proved themselves capable of pleasing the parents and patrons of the school in a patriotic program given February the Twenty-fourth. The high school regularly maintains its literary societies, the Athenian and Philo- mathean. Each fall the freshman class is by lot divided into the above mentioned societies. Separate meetings are held monthly at 7:30 o'clock P. M. in the school building, where the public is cordially invited. Here the students are trained in conducting busi- ness meetings and are drilled in oration, essay and debate and other numbers of literary nature. Often times after the program a social time is enjoyed in the basement of the building where teacher and pupil become better acquainted and enjoy themselves together. In the spring a literary contest is held between the societies where much interest is dis- played. Our high school trains an affirmative and a negative debating team, which meet similar teams from other high schools in Delaware county in friendly debate. We also furnish an orator in the County High School Oratorical Contest. Freehand drawing and landscape painting is taught in the first eight grades. Much interest has been created and the teachers report work well done and much accomplished. Music has made much progress in our schools. The lower grades are taught by their teachers, while the upper grades are supervised by Mr. Neilson. The high school orches- tra and glee club have done exceedingly well, and have furnished musical enjoyment at most of the school's public programs, and during Chapel. Now and then they render a public program. They ,will furnish the music at the baccalaureate and commencement exercises. Although athletics are secondary in our school we think them necessary. We try to develop winning teams, but to win at any price is not our aim. Our boys and girls have won one bronze, one silver and two gold medals in athletic contests within the last year. And the girls track team has held the silver loving cup of the Delaware County Athletic Association as a prize won at the track meets in 1921 and 1922. We encourage the moral, mental, physical and social aspects of our school life and try not overemphasize any one of them to the utter lack or destruction of the other. We be- lieve in a system that will be all round and one that will be adapted to the needs of the community in which we live. We invite you to the school. We solicite the hearty co-operation of citizen, patron and alumnus. We believe that where there is union there is strength. A word now and thin, of constructive criticism and encouragement will make your school and mine bigger an etter. So with best wishes to all we bid you farewell. ASA C. MYERS, Supt.