Wakarusa High School - Waka Memories Yearbook (Wakarusa, IN)

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PD MI UCD MR. HOLDEMAN MR, STRYCKER TRUSTEE MISS WERNTZ MR. BOWERS I ELK- CO, SUPTQ OF' SCHOOLS MR. ROHRER IX . - ll x li Q -'h - ,+ I wx QW If A ' I5wi! Q!Bfq?w . E. Q ,1 I ' -Q f x gxs' N' m 'in -khf N35 ' 'i' ': . Hsf 5 'NMI 53?-kfwfg ' MR. WINE MISS HAHN MISS FREED , R4 f 'Q 4 'IM . N gl ,J F gggx If iii Lv In ik I ,'F,v' I Svxbg ,fjfi! , ?5 . I X A ,Ax bbs V I , !.wi4Lk,: .5 If , fr W, 1. K - -'fu li ? RQI A SE S 'IFJ . Xl N X I ' iw, X ju M k Q 1 PES i C me K f I : Q: '-hi: Qi :, fu -N - 4 xv , fqg' www? I5 MR. GERBER PRINCIPAL Ik MISS SEARER MR. COOK MR. FREED MRS. WELDY MR. WEAVER

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l ,r ... Cx-is e' , 3123? ---- -'Q'--i .XXX xxx. 5 2 .f .-'w-'- f- ' :ze f 1 w e If Q-me-ef Lujggiiid ,,,n.,. 'Q' THE PEACE OE THE SCHQCDE IN THE CGMMUNITY Vast outlays of money have been expended in many communitiesfor school buildings in order to further the educational opportunities of youth. There is no question about this being a wise procedure, for the training of the young people of a community becomes the locality's best investment. Why should not our boys and girls have equal educational opportunities with the boy or girl of the city? To meet this requirement we must continue to invest in order to keep in step with progressive education. Enlargement to meet the increase in population and additional equipment must be added from time to time. However, the public should have wider returns from its invest- ment. The modern school should be a community school. It should be the local museum, with evidences of past and local achievements. The school library should attract patronage from the whole community. In the shops, adults as well as youths should acquire new skills and enjoy new experiences. The Home Economics laboratories should stim- ulate home improvements for women of all ages. The gymnasium facilities, including lockers and showers, should be for adult play as well as in terms of basketball requirements. The school auditorium should be a place where adults constantly participatein.stage productions of their own, in forum discussions, in experiences leading to greater skills and higher appreciation in the fine arts. At present few buildings have been planned which give enough specific attention to adult and community needs. The locality will build the building best adapt- ed to its needs only after the public has been encouraged to discuss those needs widely and openly from a non-selfish angle and the sug- gestions of laymen as well as educators have been invited. MR. C. J. GERBER, PRIN. I X -- .,.. -E ...... Q

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hu... 49 e r- '. X r 4 9992 ' 7 474 Q-,,.'f -rn sit nJPPnDKTUJll'H S OF YOJT1-I Youth is tho time when you are forming various pictures of the man or woman you desire to become. Youth should learn that very ear ly in life they must choosethe kind of individual they want to become This is one of the biggest problems you will face in lifeg this is the center of nearly all your inner struggles and conflicts, the question It is plain that you can not be all of the pictures which you may have imagined for yourself. We should select for ourselves those pic tures which will help us become useful, worthwhile citizens of the community All the way from the cradle to the grave, the building of a man's character centers about the problem of choosing a strong, consistent, balanced personality picture and having chosen it, never departing from it. Your moral destiny, your social influence, your intellect ual development--in short, your power as a person among your fellows depends upon your choosing the noblest self that is within the range of your possibilities and abiding by it. If we have been true to our selves, we can say, as Polonious in 'Hamlet' said to Laertes, To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man ' Ora C Stryoker, Superintendent of Elkhart County Schools A MESSAGE FKCJM CJUK TKU5- LL 'There are trusts that are left to each of us that are of eter nal value. Two of these are: the right use of time and the power of choice. Our future depends on the right use of our time. We spend time as though it were so much money. Each moment lost can never be re gained. Our forefathers have handed down to us a heritage envied b the world. They did this by hard, useful labor and right choices Our beloved America came not by chance. Principles, sound and hard earned, are the foundation of our government. There have been so-called intellectuals, political and academic, rich, well educated who made it a fashion to sneer at things American. There have been those who have pointed at matured communism as the dawn of the king dom of heaven. Some of these are now repenting. It is a mighty ser ious thing to flout 300 years of growing civilization in this land to flout a flag from which womenand children have never fled in terr or, flout it for flags that since their first unfurling have waved over nothing but violence with political opinion free there is a task that invites virtue. May those who receive their diplomas from this school look forward to daysin which they will haveno regrets. May they look forward to days which shall abound in the joy that comes from time well spent and choices which merit God's eternal approval HarryB Holdenan, Trustee t 1 is X O ,Q Y '--- A Lfwilf Q .,N- gg 7 'V' ,Y I' y' ,0-,,.. I :go fl 'f' X Fx I ' upon which your very destiny hangs. neil f f X rf Y D I B gl! Q