Washington High School - Neshotah Yearbook (Two Rivers, WI)

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ifzacfcw Gif C0446 Mid.--Zmmwn Principal L. B. Clarke for his forty-one years of service to education in Two Rivers, we dedicate the 1953 NESHCDTAH

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:QM Lmidfwiicw M Zhe Zwgfifrenecf L B Clarke Principal of Washlngton High School September 1912 June 1953 Dear Mr Clarke We the graduating class of 1953 feel that it is a great privilege to be able to dedicate our yearbook to you at this last Farewell Assembly in which you and we shall be participants Graduating with you so to speak is an honor and a distinction that we prize and shall remember always whenever we reminlsce about our days at Washington High School On lune 6 1938 the High School Alumni Association and the Two Rivers Teachers Association hon ored you with a testimonial dinner celebrating your twenty five year connection with education in Two Rivers We learned from newspaper clippings of that event that you came here in the fall of 1912 to teach Latin and English and then became principal of the H P Hamilton School in 1917 The only interruption that occurred was when you served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France and with the Army of Cccupation in Germany from 1918 to 1920 When you returned to Two Rivers in 1920 you resumed duties as principal of the Hamilton School school you became the first principal of Washington High School Thus you have served Two Rivers as the first principal of two high schools for thirty five years Truly to call you Mr Washington High School is no idle catch phrase but a term of deep affection and respect Being a principal is not an easy task we know but your personal qualities of sympathetic awareness of student interests and problems your scholarship and your great administrative ability which is shown especially in your efficiency and attention to detail all underscored by an evenness of mind clear thinking and modest simplicity have made you our ideal principal Because we along with the hundreds of former students and the present ones believe that our fine and constantly improved high school is due in a great part to you we have chosen a quotation from Emerson to sum up your relationship to Washington High School An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man We won t say goodbye Mr Clarke we ll 1ust say so long for we know that your pride and influ ence in this school will still be felt in the years to come May the future hold everything good for you Cordially and respectfully yours Page 2 The Class of 1953 ln 1922 when Washington High School was completed and the Hamilton School discontinued asa high

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Wekmw Za 5 ,ff Q. Kwlzmf Page 4 ts lu.. Congratulatlons on the attalnment of an ob1ect1ve qraduat1on from Hlqh School It rs your frrst mayor hurdle 1n a long serxes of goals wh1ch you must set for yourselves 1f you expect to accompllsh worthwh1le thmgs of hfe Up to th1s polnt you have had to rely on your parents and teachers to a great extent from here on you are golng to have to beqm dependlng more upon yourselves I smcerely hope that your tra1n1ng both at home and at school has contrlbuted toward helpmg you 1n belng able to stand on your own feet Many of you w1ll welcome th1s new freedom from parental and teacher qu1dance but you must keep 1n mtnd that along w1th freedom and prlvrleges go accom panymg responslbrhtles Have you Gotten By? If you have I hope that 1t hasnt become a hablt too thoroughly flxed ln your l1fe because l1fe deals I'9dl1Sl1CdllY and effectwely wrth us Have you at least Attempted to do your very best? If you have that s somethmg pralseworthy even 1f you fall No qa1n would be worth the cost of your self respect It IS my s1ncere deslre and w1sh for each of you that you contlnue to make constructlve gams toward your deslred hte objectwe H G Knudtson Supermtendent