Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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Building Custodians . ALBERT GEOROE The supervision and care of any school building requires the services of a diligent, interested, and orderly individual. It is one of the most important services rendered to the school. However, the care of any building cannot rest entirely on the shoulders of any one individual for the job is too great: it requires the constant cooperation of the administrator, the faculty members and the entire student body. To show the proper pride in the school building every shoulder is needed at the wheel, for cleanliness and orderliness is a full-time job.

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One of the most important functions in the entire school program is that played by the men who are in charge of school transportation. Their personal qualities are most important for they must be reliable, dependable, responsible, patient, intelligent and alert in many diverse situations. In addition to the problem of transporting students to and from school, these drivers and their busses transport the athletic teams, are in readiness for class and school picnics, and are in demand for other school activities. The Board of Directors has used great discretion in the selection of the best drivers and the finest group of men available for this all-important job.

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Superintendent’s Page . . . Mr. Albert Hopkins has been superintendent of Union schools for two years and those two years have been progressive ones for the school. Our superintendent has stated that he is well pleased with the school year of 1947-4 8 and believes it is the finest year of bis administration, however, he does not take the credit for its being so. He insists that it results from full cooperation between faculty and administration; harmony among faculty members; understanding of faculty and students; support from members of the board of education; and the fact that the community accepts the school as a vital working part of its social, educational. and cultural life. Mr. Hopkins’ philosophy of education is pretty well known to all who work with him. One of the basic principles which he follows is that of the individual not belonging to himself alone: he is part of a complex social entity, and certain demands are necessarily made upon him as an individual by the society of which he is a part which he must meet and demands which he must fulfill to the best of his ability. In the process of education the deliberate culture of the personality and the community is desired. This means that the individual must realize that he has some share of practical responsibility to society in order that each and both may achieve richness, variety, and depth in the living experiences. In the schools, human life is involved in all its interesting and age-old disclosures. The main goal in education, then, is the maturing of the human personality which will take its responsible place at home in a developing community.