Washington High School - Warrior Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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He held his place - Held the long purpose like a growing tree - Held on through blame and faltered not at praise. And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with houghs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the shy. -Edwin lllarleham Enbn QD' Zmnnehp 1917 1963 W ,li. ,,,,g. A , , , , , ' will 4' K'-, I fix ,. ' m'51'if5iSs51 rmnmwvmam zz was mx '-,,m5-NXAM

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imp Q. Beck Ray A, Beck was associaled wi'lh lhe Sioux Falls Public Schools lor lhirly-lwo years, eighleen years as a leacher, 'rhe remainder as principal ol Washinglon l-ligh School. Mr. Beck was a lough minded, no-nonsense adminislralor, bul nol wilh- oul a lwinkling sense ol humor. l-le kepl 'lhe accumulaled lore ol ballle-proved experience aboul schools and people in a small black lealher ring binder which he read lrom al assemblies and meelings. l-lis audiences lislened because his messages were cryslal-clear and well, allhough economically, phrased. Associales remember him lor various reasons which, when considered in lolo, proiecl a re- markable image ol lhe man. . . . he knew school problems and where lo expecl lrouble. and invariably you would lind him in lhe midsl' ol il. . . he slood al lhe counler, vigorous and slurdy, his eyes alerl lo business and his honesl' lace aglow wilh oplimism, so lhal' you lell assured lhe day would go righlf' . . he expecled sludenls and leachers lo do lheir work well, and il you were righl he would be lhere lo back you up. . . a man who could make decisions and lirrnly sland by lhemfl . . a slricl disciplinarian . . . righl was righl, regardless ol consequences lo himf' ll, as Emerson so ably slaled, an inslilulion is bul lhe lenglhened shadow ol a man, lhen Washinglon l-ligh School is, in parl, somelhing lhal Ray Beck would have cherished beyond any olher memorial - a moulder ol unlold genera- lions ol young people lor beller. Zin illllemuriam Qllurtis ibierce Curlis Pierce, a sludenl al WSHS, was born January 2l, I947, and was killed in an aulo accidenl November 2l, l963.

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sfo - L X 'S R E N Q K x Vx E4-im, Y, ' ' - N skis W' Wi ' i M, i N ,K l -,KW 'N X ii E LLAL. , Lm-' , N A , A ,W was--4 ,Jimi QW UAW X Es , ,x i - 4 x . N, if ,A ,-as ,. 4 During 'rhe pasl Jrhree years while we have been in Washing- +on High our cily and our school have undergone many dramalic changes. We have seen much of 'rhe old downlown area fall 'ro malce room for new and modern businesses 'ro meel +he economic needs of a grow- ing Sioux Falls. We have wil- nessed lhe rise of greal' new public facililies 'ro accom- modale our ever growing gov- ernmenlal and recrealional aclivilies. We have walched our school grow from 2400 To a record 2900 sludenls. lvlosl imporlanl of all, we have seen Jrhe lirsf sleps 'ralcen by The cily To provide for our educalional needs by approving a new high school. We ol: 'rhe annual slalf rhen. have made +he seclional di- viders and several orher pages of lhis I964 WARRIOR on our lheme of The old and Jrhe new in Sioux Falls and Washinglon Senior High School,