Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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n £ D I G Jl T IOJM To labor arduously, giving unstinting of time, energy, experience, and wisdom, is not rare in this land of industrious selfadvancement when it is done in order to further one’s own resources, but when it is performed conscientiously and cheerfully each year for the benefit of someone else it is indeed an unusual occu ranee. No group of public workers has more fault found with it or receives more unreasonable requests. To act as scapegoat to angry parents who think their erring children perfect; to be always calm, judicial, and progressive, and to remain on speaking terms with other people—all this is a herculean task and deserves our highest approbation. It is with pride and admiration that lmbler High School points to the faculty that has maintained this record for the past three years. Miss Myrtie Whitmer, commercial teacher, has been an example for studious thought and for kind and courteous behavior. Dr. Harry Heimburger has instructed the lmbler High School students in the fields of elementary mathematics and elementary and advanced science during the three years he has been affiliated with the lmbler Schools. Mr. William Phillips, English and mathematics teacher, has efficiently performed his duties in the classroom and on the athletic fields. Mr. Albert Hopkins, superintendent of the lmbler Public Schools since 1941, also taught social science classes. Competent both as a teacher and an administrator, Mr. Hopkins devoted much time and energy to making lmbler High School a better school. May these instructors, who have consistently and admirably fulfilled their duties, find reward in the achievements of the many boys and girls to whom they have made education an interesting and worthwhile practice.

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Sc uuxC 'rtyouae a td The primary purpose of any school is, of course, education, but under this heading comes many more activities. Education comes, not only from books, but from the little trivial incidents of daily living. School life combines many of these moments resulting in lessons learned that will never bo forgotten. School spirit is an ever present force which builds for unity of purpose among all those students who heed its call. Imbler schools have that spirit of loyalty, of unity, of fidelity, of allegiance, and of co-operation; for co-operation with his fellowman is a lesson learned early. For nearly two score years Imbler schools have stood here, a bulwark against ignorance, illiteracy; a structure built for the purpose of training the youth; an example of our American way of life—free education for our children and our neighbors’ children, made possible by the money of the public—the taxpayers; made possible by the dreams of those far-seeing patriots whose self-deniance, sacrifice, and martyrdom paved the way through the wilderness for freedom and. with freedom, the release from ignorance and the gaining of the truth. Set in the midst of the Grande Ronde Valley, built upon solid and fertile soil, the west windows of the schoolhouse give a breathtaking view of Mt. Emily, whose peak is covered with the white expanses of snow for nearly the whole school year; while in the east, which the school is facing, is Mt. Harris, covered with trees of pine and fir, spruce and hemlock. And by the side of the schoolhouse is the gymnasium, built by popular subscription and called the Wade Hall for the woman who gave the money with which to enlarge and finish it. In this gymnasium are held student body parties, banquets dances, plays, ball games, carnivals, and upon occasion, community gatherings and other affairs. The students of Imbler schools have great traditions to uphold, traditions shared not only with other students in this state, but with the whole nation. For from these schools come the future presidents, senators, representatives. cabinet members, ambassadors, bankers, merchants, farmers, educators. ministers, writers, artists, musicians—people from every walk of life who have one thing in common---------America.