Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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WELLESLEY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL YEAR BOOK COMMITTEE John Moulton . Editor-in-Chief Allee Hamilton . Assistant Editor-in-Chief Alvin von Auw . Junior Class Editor Brenda Jenkins . Assistant Junior Class Editor Frances Blakeslee . Sophomore Class Editor PICTURE COMMITTEE Thomas Duffy Edward Rowe Martha Brown SENIOR “WRITE-UPS” Marian Campbell Robert Cahill Lilian Brest William Johnson Wilda Mottley Gordon Vanderwarker. Richard Mason . John Crankshaw . Robert Selfe . Richard Mason, Weston Oyler .Business Manager .... Assistant Business Manager . Subscription Manager . Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Managers ART Robert Munstedt FACULTY ADVISERS Kathryn E. Heater John P. Jewell Page 10

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WELLESLEY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL fi s Tfi jgaaa asanas EDUCATION FOR A CHANGING CIVILIZATION To the Students and Faculty of the Senior High School :— One of the principal objectives in Education is service to the community. To serve the community best, the needs of the community must be well understood. To obtain this understanding in sufficient degree, it is necessary to analyze with the most careful study all municipal situations in terms of all circumstances pertaining to such situa¬ tions. The public school program in the United States has been criticized somewhat adversely because it gives too little attention to the studies of the problems of democ¬ racy. These problems, of course, have to do with commuxiity life in respect to living conditions as related to economic status. During last year and this year, all peoples in the entire world, it would seem, are suffering more or less from the alleged depression which has taken the form of retrenchment of expenditures because of the lack of funds to meet such expenditures. In the last analysis it may be that the entire situation is involved in the great fear which the public has lest a greater financial catastrophe overtake each community, each individual, and each business enterprise located in the various communities. It is desirable, of course, that the educational program provide some solution, if possible, for these problems. To attain this goal it will be necessary that all of us make a very careful study of a changed civilization influenced by new conditions such as swifter means of communication, and greater opportunities for international ac¬ quaintanceship. A new or der has arrived. A new graduating class of the Wellesley Senior High School is about to go out into different activities of further education, and in some instances, into actual business enterprises. If the solution of the economic question is to be met with understanding, it evidently is incumbent upon high school students, as well as others, to study the problems that are before us, attempting, in common with other people in the community, to discover the answers to the questions presented,—one of the main statements of which is, “Why does a democracy suffer economically, with thousands of people out of work,—people wishing to possess the very articles the superabundance of which in possession of this democracy may be a cause of the depression as we find it?” Truly, it is a large question worthy of the keenest thought of any man or woman who is willing to study it. Upon its successful solution depends the happiness of mankind, wherever he may be living under a demo¬ cratic form of government where the will of the people may be expressed freely by individual balloting on all public questions. Benjamin Franklin exemplified thrift in the early days of colonial democracy. Thomas Jefferson personified freedom from pomp and exultation. William Morris gave the country an unexampled life of personal sacrifice that the country might have financial support during its great economic crisis. Alexander Hamilton bestowed upon this land excellent results from keen, intellectual thinking and high official integrity. George Washington devoted gladly the major years of his life in service to the struggling colonies that those colonies might develop into a successful nation. Abraham Lincoln died as he had lived, in the service of the country which Washington, Franklin, Hamil¬ ton, Jefferson, and others had made possible. Woodrow Wilson led the country into a larger field of international responsibility, giving to the world a memorial of unusual understanding in terms of international peace and guidance. It is left to you students, then, the younger generation, to make the best use of the rich heritage which is yours. Your loyal devotion to the highest interests of American Democracy will continue to maintain unsullied, inviolable, the sacred name of American Democracy in its highest idealism and with its most sacred liberties. S. MONROE GRAVES.

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WELLESLEY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL FACULTY ADVISERS w sr v . Miss Kathryn E. Heater Staff Adviser Mr. John P. Jewell Financial Adviser ifliE