West Bend High School - Bend Yearbook (West Bend, WI)

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.- Aw. 'Sf WWW The secondary school sTudenTs oT I939 Tace a new day and a new educaTion. The America OT The l900's was a naTion oT dirT roads, was geared To a speed oT Tour miles an hour, was basically an agricul- Tural counTry, was a world in which manpower did The labor. An educaTion grounded in The Three R's goes baclc To The Time when America was deTiniTely rural and agriculTural. Our generaTion has wiTnessed The growTh oT The naTion inTo an indusTrial power. The dirT roads have given way To concreTe highways ThaT Traverse The conTinenT in all direcTions, and slcy- ways have cuT days To hours. l-land labor has been superseded by The eTTiciency and mulTiplied power oT The auTomaTic machine, where men and women become aTTendanTs. Today. modern invenTions such as The Telephone, The auTo, The oil burner, have robbed The sTudenT oT home responsibiliTies. COLLEGE

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Since I890 Hue enrollmenT OT The secondary school has increased Tronu 203,000 To 6,000,000 or by 2855 per cenT. Today The secondary school, a democraTic insTiTuTion, has The responsibiliTy oT expanding The courses oT sTudy Trom Hue Three Rls To moeT Hue individual desires oT The sTudenT. This new America demands a new progressive school sysTern ThaT will eTTicienHy prepare young men and young women in a rapidly changing world. Children who are in The grades Today will graduaTe inTo a new world. To meeT and saTisTy These exacTing demands secondary insTiTuTions are adopTing programs which will answer The challenges oT modern living. ln order To prepare iTs charges Tor compleTe living, The school oT Today musT proiecT iTs plans inTo The TuTure. YesTerday was a world oT Tew vocaTional oppor- TuniTies. Today, There are l8,000 vocaTions, l6,000 oT which can be Tilled by The average sTudenT. Commerce, indusTry. college, The home, are requiring an inTelligenT, well-Trained individual. This new day demands a new educaTionp The new child a new curriculum, a new environmenT, a new school planT To give a mulTipliciTy oT Training. Tl-TE I-IOME COMMERCE INDUSTRY