Wheaton Community High School - Wecomi Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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FOREWORD HROUGHOUT the past few years, Wheaton Community High School has experienced many distinct improvements. Lead by experienced educators, a fearless school board and a thoroughly trained faculty, the student body has made remark- able strides in assuming the true responsibilities of its heritage. In keeping with the spirit of these progressive times, the annual staff has attempted to conform to the improved standards of achievement in presenting this 1936 school year- book. As the book was planned, in studying other books of like schools, it was readily seen that the name of our book, in spite of its fine tradition, was not as original and as

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ne l936 WECUMI PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF uaeaton gommunity -:Zyl .Qioof WHEATON, ILLINOIS JAMES DUNLAP - - - EDITOR ESTELLE FISHER BUSINESS MANAGER D. C. BURGER - - FACULTY ADVISER IUNE - 1936 VOLUME I

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representative as it might be. The limitations placed upon each staff as to the choice of a color scheme, due to the name ORANGE AND BLACK, greatly hindered the develop- ment of original ideas. For this reason the staff petitioned the school for the right to change the name which was granted by popular vote of the student body. The new name, WECOMI, was chosen from the name of the school, Wlheaton Community High School. In this name will be found the necessary individualism encountered in studying the names other schools have chosen. This name will not he copied, and will stand emblematic as the traditional name of the Wheaton annuals of the future. The annual staff of l936 fully appreciates its responsi- bility in this choice hut feels that it has added one more worth- while contribution to the progressive ideals now incorporated in the entire school personnel. May this book stand as one more milestone in the forward strides of our school.