SHS Student Handbook

 
Do you remember the first days of the Ninth Grade?  We had "graduated" from junior high, and now we were entering high school.  Junior high didn't seem to be as organized an institution as was "High School."  This was the top of the line in our educational experience.

But, even if it was the top of the line, we were at the bottom of the heap!  As freshmen, most of us felt awkward and vulnerable in this new setting.  Even the architecture of the high school did not seem familiar, looking far more modern and foreign than did the ancient buildings that housed grade school and junior high.  At one of the first morning assemblies, we were welcomed by the upper class representatives and by our principal, Mr. Ray Black.  Their words encouraged us, offered us help and exhorted us to do our best over the next 4 years.  I wish we had transcripts of those assemblies.

One of the first things they did for us was to pass out the student handbook--that "rule book" for making it at SHS.  Reading it now, I wonder why I didn't pay attention to what it said then.  Not only did it hold us to lofty and honorable behavior, it offered us encouragement, useful information and promises of assistance.

Take a look at selections from that publication, and I think you'll agree that it was a useful tool in its time.

StudentHadbookPage2a.jpg (18043 bytes)Page 2.  Traditions

StudentHandbookPage3a.jpg (118704 bytes)Page 3.  Welcome Messages from Student Council President, Harold McNeese and Principal Ray Black (Click here for more legible type)

StudentHandbookPage4a.jpg (165324 bytes)Page 4.  History of SHS

StudentHandbookPage6a.jpg (67793 bytes)Page 6.StudentHadbookPage7a.jpg (97151 bytes) Page 7. Regulations

StudentHandbookPage9a.jpg (107588 bytes)Page 9.  StudentHadbookPage10a.jpg (71667 bytes)Page 10.

 Graduation Requirements & Awards

StudentHandbookPage11a.jpg (116629 bytes)Page 11.  StudentHadbookPage12a.jpg (98499 bytes)Page 12. 

StudentHandbookPage13a.jpg (92239 bytes)Page 13.Organizations

Page 14. Cheers

 

 

 

  

 


Cover of the 1952 Student Handbook

 

We are indebted to Sheffield historian, Richard Sheridan for this copy of the Student Handbook.  He kindly made it available to me when I was searching for memorabilia and history of Sheffield High last spring (2005).