Weaver High School - Portal Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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MISS HOGAN A graduate of Hartford Public High School, Miss Hogan matriculated at Wesleyan University in Middletown, from which college she received her B. A. degree. She has taken several extension courses offered by various universities here in the city. Before her arrival at Weaver, Miss Hogan taught at New Hartford and East Hartford High Schools. DEDICATION When teachers have done so much for the school and for the students as have Miss Mabel E. Hanks and Miss Agnes N. Hogan, it is fitting that public acknowledgment of it be made. For this reason, to Miss Hanks for her sympathetic and kindly assistance and to Miss Hogan for her frank yet constructive criticism, and to both for their cooperation both as our teachers and friends, we dedi¬ cate this 1939 Portal. MISS HANKS After graduating from South Hadley High School in South Hadley Falls, Mass., Miss Hanks attended Mount Holyoke in the same locality and received her B. A. degree there. She later took ex¬ tension courses at Middlebury and Boston Univer¬ sity. She taught at West Hartford High before coming to Weaver. [ 6 ]

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THE UNIQUE FUNCTION OF EDUCATION IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY The future of democratic society is challenged, not only in Europe and Asia, but in the United States. For educational leadership to blink that fact is to cast off the mandate of eternal vigilance and accept the facile optimism that paralyzes preventative measures. Once more, as in the early days of the Republic, the maintenance of democratic society swings into center of educational interest. Any conception of education that ignores this critical situation is false to its trust. And the effort of the schools to deal with it constructively lifts educational leadership out of the routine of pedagogy into the realm of bold and creative thinking which the founders of the Republic dared to enter. Neither educators nor citizens at large can expect to enjoy liberty without deserving it. Human affairs do not run that way. Authorities in charge of the schools are under obligation to preserve or improve our American way of life. Only thus can education look forward confidently to securing from society that autonomy and economic support to which it is entitled. —National Education Association [ 8 ]