Wakefield High School - Echo Yearbook (Wakefield, MI)

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WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL ECHO WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS PRESIDENT............... SECRETARY............... TREASURER............... TRUSTEE................. TRUSTEE................. PURCHASING AGENT........ .....A. W. CLEVENGER ........H. A. TRESSEL ...ABE MATHEWS, JR. ......VICTOR LEPISTO ......JOHN KUIVINEN MRS. ANNA KALLANDER ...J. A. FREDRICKSON THE WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS The schools of Wakefield Township are organized as one system. The same board of education which lias jurisdiction over the Wakefield Township High School is in charge of flu schools at Thoniaston, .lacks' Spur, Tula and Planter. In the City of Wakefield are located the Central School, Wico School, Plymouth School, Verona School, Trade School, and the Wakefield Township 11 i -11 School. The building occupied by the High School also houses elementary and intermediate grades. Parts of the Wakefield Memorial Community Building, including the auditorium, gymnasium, and swimming pool are rented by the Board of Education and are used by the pupils of all grades. Kindergartens are maintained in all schools where the number of children of kindergarten age is great enough to warrant the expenditure of money for this purpose. Evening classes in English and Americanization work conducted in all schools where the demand for this work has been great enough to warrant the establishment of such classes. The school system of Wakefield Township as now organized approximates the Kindergarten-Six-Two-Four plan. Present plans, however, provide for another step in reorganization; the Kindergarten-Six-Six form of organization, as soon as building space can be provided-to relieve present overcrowded conditions. Under such a plan the Wakefield Township High School will comprise grades VII to XII inclusive. The Wakefield Township High School was organized as a four year high school in the fall of 1911. In the spring of 1913 it was placed on the accredited list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Wakefield Chapter of the National Honor Society of Secondary Schools was organized November 4, 1922 to which members of the senior class may be elected on the bases of character, scholarship, leadership, and service. The Wakefield Township High School is now accredited by the University of Michigan for a period of three years, the present term of accrediting expiring June 30, 1926. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Graduates are thus permitted to enter without examination not only the University of Michigan but practically all of the universities and colleges in the United States excepting a few that still maintain the entrance examination system for admission. The Wakefield Township High School not only prepares pupils for entrance to college but aims to provide for those pupils who for various reasons will be unable to attend institution of higher learning, the kind of training that will enable them to render the greatest possible services to the community in which they will live. Pagre Four

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— WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL ECHO (Xu tin’ (Clans nf ’24 “Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, The very Life of Life; In its brief course lie all the Varieties And Realities of your Existence: The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday i; hut a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision, But Today well-lived Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.” L. M. Blair for THE FACULTY Page Six