Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-03
INAUGURATION OF FIRST TERM OF EL cENTRo UNION HIGH
 SCHOOL CELEBRATED
THIRTY-TWOARE ENROLLED
Address by pr. Shepherd on Function of School in Building Character on Foundation of Good citizenship-List Of Students in Attendance and local tiles Represented.

Central Union High School opened it's first years work at Fl Centro last Monday morning with an enrolment of thirty students. The enrolment has now reached thirty-two, and pros poets are that the enrolment will reach forty students before the Christ mas holidays.
 Opening exercises were held in the Presbyterian Church. on Fourth street, which has been secured as the tenn porary quarters of the school. Every available seat was taken by pupils and patrons of the new institution
 Rev. J. M. Tout offered invocation, and M. w. Conkling, president of the Board of Trustees, gave short address, in which he outlined the boards hopes for the new school and it's destined place in the development of Imperial Valley.
 Rev. H. Eummelen spoke on Some Aspects of Educational Work" in which he urged the cooperation of the parents with the teachers and pupils. and the need of instruction that will touch the child's highest moral sensi- bilities as we'll as his intellect.
 pr. Robert P. Shepherd gave an ad- dress on "The Function of High School Life in a Community" and County Superintendent J. E. Carr gave an adress of welcome on behalf of the County Board of Education.
 Prof. B. c. Nichols, principal of the High School, responded happily, dwell ing upon the ready wecome he found in the clry and valley for this new educational institution.
 Miss Ethel A. Meredith, teacher of science and music presided at the or gan, and the audience sang Amer ica', as a close to the formal pro- gramme.
 An interesting incident of the open ing was County Superintendent J. E. Cars exhibition of a photograph of the first school conducted in Imper- ial Valley. He was the teacher, and the school was conducted in the shade of ramada of arrow-weeds on ranch near Heber Several of the pupils rode miles to attend this school.
 Enrolment.
 The enrolment shows a wide range of territory represented as follows:
 Charley Fry, Corona Grammar school; Clinton Heil, Orange Union High School; Carl F. Moore, Santa Barbara High School; J. Paul Moosan, Holtville, enters from Los Angeles Grammar School; Edward Perkiss, Imperial Union High School; Pauline Adair, Grand Island, Nebraska; Inez Collier, Los Angeles Polytechnic High School; Cathryne Conking, Redondo High School; Julia Conkling, Redon do High School; Hazel Denny, Imper- ial Grammar School; Mabel Gullett, Elder School; Hazel Havermale, Ther nal School; Bertha Heil, Santa Ana; Angie Mathis, 'Calexico, Huntington Beach High School; Helen Pearson, Baltimore high School; Alice Ran dolph, CaleXico Imperial High School; Harriet Swanson, Royalton, Minneso- ta, High School.
 Those entering from the El Centro Grammar School or on examination, are:
 Marion Aten, Boyde Aten, Charles Gillette, Vivian Rapp, Walter Tout, Mantee Buckley, Lula Collins, Edna Loomis Lena Mayfield, Emma Mitch ell, Marjorie Paris, Jessie Perkiss. Pearl Tout, Ora Van Horn.
 The school Is composed of twenty three first year students; seven sec ond year and two third year students. Nineteen take the Latin course while thirteen take the English course.
 Aims of Education.
 Dr. Shepherd in his address, dwelt particularly upon the high school as a character builder. He said in part:
 American civilization may be de- scribed as a composite of three insti- tutions, the state, the school. and the home. and the greatest of these is the American home. The school sys- tenn comes in to supplement and to complement the work of the home. but can never supplant it. in the task of shaping character and determining destiny.
 So small a portion of the male pop ulatiOn of our land ever finishes the high school course, 1t is doubly i'm portant that the school system in all it's parts shall lay more than unusual emphasis upon its function as the agency of the government for inform ing and enlightening its citizenship. If our country is to endure as a re- public, founded upon public law, its citizenship must be an intelligently law creating as well as law honoring abiding force.
 Looking more immediately to the work to be done by our system of public instruction. we find there are three quite distinct kinds of studies k E.,