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Show A Better School Spirit EDITOR'S NOTE: The following was written for the Roosevelt High School paper by Verland "Bill" Nelson. It carries a message of public concern and the Standard is pleased to publish it as a guest editorial. Many of. your parents started toward higher education within these walls. Some twenty or thirty-odd years ago they trarri-ped trarri-ped up and down the same stairs, left the same doors open, sang in the same auditorium, used many of the same desks, and met their favorite boy or girl friend in the same building RHS students stu-dents use today. Since their time little has been done to change the appearance or better conditions that existed then. In recent years the things that I characterize a good school have been on the decline at Roosevelt High. Outstanding has been the condition of the school building a condemned structure, crowd-, crowd-, ed, cold, and repaired only as necessity demanded. Several factors joined forces to bring about an unsavory condition con-dition at RHS. There was talk of a Union High School; there was a lack of school funds, then there was the war. But most of all there was the absence of cooperation co-operation among the school board, the general public, the teachers and the students The . mention of a new building build-ing made most" of us shudder at the cost. Repairing and adding new rooms to the present structure struc-ture sounded foolish to everyone. every-one. Conditions grew worse and worse until only discomfort faced students as they entered a classroom. The talk at home encouraged en-couraged students to lose respect for their school, its teachers, and its property. Things at Roosevelt High were fast reaching the breaking point. Now your school is being re-juvinated, re-juvinated, both in spirit and in structure. The cost of remodeling remodel-ing is more than the original cost of the building. This is being paid by the parents, and every broken window, board or locker, every disturbance or interference with construction cost means that the Dads and Mothers must dig deeper. The completion of the work is prolonged, and hard earned dollars go for naught. Things are looking up at Roosevelt High. The school boasts the largest enrollment in its history a studentbody that daily notes the improvements. This is your school, remember that. Be proud of your enrollment; enroll-ment; resolve to uphold the morals mor-als and standards of the institution, institu-tion, destroying thereby only the ill will and viscious talk that have clouded the progress of Roosevelt High in the last decade. de-cade. Help it to grow and develop. de-velop. Be a credit to your school and sell it wherever you go. Make! your parents conscious of its problems, insisting that they take an active part in the Parent-Teachers Association. No community is better than the school it supports. No people are smarter than the learning they provide for their children. Let us inject into the minds of all concerned this thought: 'Think and speak better of your school, for better students and better education depend upon your attitude." |
