Wyomissing Area High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wyomissing, PA)

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Admmzlfimizbn Intrusted to administration is the formulation of policies affecting school and community, teacher and pupil, and inter pupil relationships. The in- ter-action of these factors must he cor- related with the tempo of the increas- ingly complex situations in the world of today. Administration must took backward as Weil as forward. It must temper the hest of the practices of the past with the trends of the present. This requires a skillful sifting of to- dayys drives so as to eliminate that which is transient and short-lived from that which will become permanent and enduring. Today is ephemeral. A rapidly changing World is viewed through ALLEN VV. RANK Twenty-one i r J. L. APPENZELLAR the eyes of yesterday. Man alters hut slowly in his viewpoint, however fast he changes his material trappings. And here is educationys solemn task: to wit, to bring man to a Iceener un- derstanding of the world in which his life is lived. Each individual, in this inter-related social order, must he made to sense his personal respons- ihility. If education can achieve this, it will Ioeget that type of noble man who aspires to the order and law which arises from the dictates of a per- sonal intelligence synchronized to the hest interests of society. THE EULUPHUN UF 19111

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The School Booffof MRS. SAMUEL R. FRY, P. HERBERT REIGNER, DR. JOHN E. LIVINGOOD, H. CHARLES KELLUM, J. CALVIN BUTLER. A community speaics through its elective representatives. This is in ac- cordance with republican democracy. Schools being the agencies of com- munities, therefore, can progress only as fast as their citizens permit. This requires, then, that any iocaiity at- tune itself to the trends of the larger world in which its youths will live. Education, therefore, must he fash- ioned in line with society as it exists today. Nor must the best of the past he ignoredg but the acceptance of this past must he conditioned by present needs. To this understanding a com- munity must aspire. Twenty M. M. ASHMORE

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f ' I 3,Q?3 'CQ' lfxlegt at Faculty If I .U R. T. MILFORD, R. G. Nlomzis E. H. BRININGER, L. R. NTEYERS, A. VV. RANK Twenty-two THE EULUPHUN UF 19111 . . Q ENGLISH Nlan, today, tives in groups. There- fore his faculty of self-expression is more important than ever before. This expression must he through both oral and written mediums. And, he must he able to react intelligently, if he would comprehend the past and properly interpret the present environ- ment. SOCIAL STUDIES In an inter-related world, one must ever know more about man,s relation- ship to man. The study of human he- havior, past and present, and the evaluation ot the proper usage of manas material progress toy his estab- lished institutions is the task ot the Social Sciences.