Wapella High School - Retro Yearbook (Wapella, IL)

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Superintendent’s Message A school draws its strength or weakness in large part from the community that it serves. The extent to which people are willing to pay for education will determine in g.eat measure the kind of schooling that their children will receive. The dominant concept in the minds of the citizens of what a good school is plays a vital part in determining the power of their schooL School children are not just preparing for life. School life is real and earnest. A good school is a gigantic cooperative enterprise with high morale, enlisting every available resource to aid in the job of educating the child as he lives, daily, a full and happy life. The time is now here when we must forge ahead as far with the development of the human personality as we have with the development of the machine. If this is not done, the human race is destined to receive a blow from which it may never recover. The proper development of the human personality of those who will soon shouldet the world's problems is our responsibility. We can meet this responsibility successfully only by exhibiting the proper example coupled with the best thinking of our times. The public school is the greatest of all American institutions and it has the greatest responsibility in the world. (Mr. Scott A. Funkhouser has been the superintendent of Wapella Community Unit District No. 5 for the past seven years. He was graduated from Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College with a bachelor's degree; and in 1941 he received his master's degree from the University of Colorado.; Office Secretary Mrs. Helen Johnson was graduated from Wapella Community High School in 1947. She has been the office secretary here for three years. Hoard of Education Left to Right: Leo Greene; Ray Johnson; James Ryan; Carl Thorp, President; Paul Ives, Secretary; Harry Bethel; Scott Funkhouser, Superintendent. Absentee: Homer Short.