Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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Board of Directors The school district is acutely aware of the basic position the board of directors employs in the educational system of our country. The three members comprising the hoard in Union are responsible directors, experienced in the needs of the school, progressive and cognizant of the fact that the current world situation has made us all feel unsafe as a people and as a nation. They realize that we live in a world where anything may happen and that man is already considering the problems of survival for the human race. These changed conditions have been felt strongly in the schools and have brought with them problems and challenges that cannot be avoided or put off with the feeling that solutions can wait for the morrow. Schools are in a position where all bystanders think they know what should be done and all are yelling directions: some impatiently and some angrily. Evidently something must be done whether it is to help children towards a healthy, happy life, to improve the public esteem in which schools are held, to contribute to individual or social or community effectiveness, to save and develop our democracy, or to save our own skins—something must be done. It all adds up to this: The job requires ability of a high order. It cannot be directeJ by men without intelligence and knowledge. It requires courageous decisions. It requires speed and action. Union is indeed fortunate to have men in a directorate capacity who are able to meet challenges and to direct the affairs of the school in a wise and efficient manner. 10— : ' ' : ' L I I I I

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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.

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Board of Directors ODIN MILLER MERTON A. DAVIS W. B. BAXTER FRANCES N. FARRELL — 11