Walkerton High School - Echoes Yearbook (Walkerton, IN)

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Greetings to the Class of 1959! This is a somewhat unusual way to start my contribution to the current edition of Echoes but there has been little opportunity to see you this semester. The superintendent has been working with the school board on the planning and some legislation needed to get for our community a new building in place of the elementary school most of you attended. Perhaps it would be of some histor- C. EMMET EILER, Superintendent ical value to take the space allotted and make a report of news that is of much local interest at the time Echoes of 1959 is going to press. Those of you who attended twelve years in Walker- ton spent half of the time in a school building con- structed in 1914 with a gymnasium added eight years later. There has been much discussion since the early forties to get a building which is safer and more nearly meeting good educational standards. About two years ago the school officials began action acquiring a new school site in the area beginning four blocks south of the high school building. Seventeen acres have been purchased and two houses have been removed. Plans are in final stages for the construction of the new building. Before you read this in the Echoes of 1959, we hope to have work underway. This will be another step in the direction of providing for the younger pupils facilities more like those you have had in our building dedicated fifteen years ago. CThe last bond was paid off in January of this school year.J All of Indiana is about to be surveyed by county committees to make recommendations for new school districts with larger high schools. Just what will hap- pen for your high school is something that may make news in the next edition of Echoes. lt is certain that many high schools of our general area will not remain the same. So, be prepared to see changes that could affect the Walkerton community. Whatever happens, may this edition of Echoes bring back to you pleasant memories of Walkerton High School as we were to- gether at the time you prepared and distributed this record of 1958-1959. GEORGE H. BOCK, Principal May 27, 1959, will be a day of great expectations for the senior students of Walkerton High School. lt will be a day of mixed emotions, ioy, sorrow, regret, satisfaction, and others. Your parents will share in your emotions as they have shared so often on other occasions. This is your Commencement! Commencement de- notes the beginning of a new experience for your self advancement through the challenge! What limita- tions do you place on your desires? Do you accept your responsibilities? You and you alone must deter- mine the paths you tread. l suggest that much of your advancement will come from making petty sacrifices- a please, a thank you, a word of encouragement, a smile. A necessity is that inertia to never stop short of an achievable goal. lt is wise to give thanks to your friends and asso- ciates who have made your success possible. lt is not weak to suffer humility. Above all, it is an absolute necessity to include God in your future. With Him All Things Are Possible. 4 To you, the Graduates of Walkerton High School, l wish to extend my sincere congratulations. May you always hold your heads high for a iob well done.

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School. Our years here 've Al ourl lI.l 2: it rc Emi Time spenf in grade and high many memories, which we shall cherish as long as we ong days of hard and sometimes boring classes are balanced by The brothers or srsters, or the year. Bur also glad to a life ahead. Following is our wr A' 'ro Success

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