"The student is not a vessel to fill but a lamp to light."

The MAINE symbol ‑ LUX ET VERITAS (Light and Truth) ‑ has guided our students to high academic achievements since 1902. Our student handbook in describing the symbol stated, "To be able generously and effectively to give light, we all earnestly seek the light. In the free atmosphere of America, teachers and students sincerely strive to learn and understand. Thus, we do our part to make America's next thousand years a growing fulfillment of the hope of the fathers that here would be wrought a plan that would insure abundance of life to all of its happy citizens."

Maine West students are more serious about their education this year. College-bound students, realizing that being accepted by the colleges of their choice depends more and more on good high school grades, are working harder than ever before. Vocational students know that a high school diploma is the key to their future. Sylvia Porter in a Chicago Daily News article advocated, "Stay in school; your whole life depends on it." She goes on to say, "It is important for young people to realize there are many job opportunities for normal youngsters even though they don't have the extraordinary aptitudes to become engineers, mathematicians, physicians, physicists, etc."

The student is a lamp to light at Maine West. How successful our efforts will be and the progress we will make toward helping students succeed is dependent upon the dedication, training and skill of the teachers, the eagerness of the students to learn, and the understanding and backing parents give to the school. Let us strive to make the good things popular and the popular things good.

Mr. Herman L. Rider,
Principal