Altoona High School - Horseshoe Yearbook (Altoona, PA)

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DR A. BRUCE DENNISTON OI1 Superintendent To the Class of 1956 x Graduation from high school marks a most significant event in your life. ln the first place it identifies you as one of a select group because only slightly more than half the youth of your age attain this enviable goal. Perhaps the great- est outcome of this achievement will be the in- creased opportunity you will have for self- direction and self-determination. With this cpportunity will come an increased personal re- sponsibility for your ideas and your actions. I sincerely hope that your experiences and lessons in high school, the guidance of sincere teachers and the counsel of devoted parents will fortify you against errors of iudgmentf against conduct repugnant to good breedingp and against the- ories and doctrines that are alien to sound reason, the spirit of America, or the will of God. 'll THE SUPERINTENDENT

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Mr. Ernest Dejaiffe Mr. Norman Ernest Mr. John Hill MR. FRANK MARSH President I Aclministra BOARD OF EDUCATION The nine members of the Board of School Directors of the city of Altoona have the legal responsibility for the operation of all city schools, including our own building. Besides controlling a 650 employee staff and almost a two and one-halt million dollar payroll, these ladies and gentlemen arranged during the past year for the construction of a new and modern field house at Mansion Park, remodeled and re-equipped three home eco- nomics classrooms, completed the painting and relighting of the high school building, reduced the real estate taxkone mill, created a higher salary schedule for the teachers, and spent ap- proximately S20,000 for new instructional equip- ment 'For the high school alone. Mr. Frank Marsh served his second term as president of this civic-minded group during the 1955-56 term. A Mrs. Harold March Mrs. Eleanor Maurer Mr. Paul Reynolds Mr. Roy Thompson 'IO Mr. George Kensinger

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MR. JOSEPH N. MADDOCKS, Principal MR. EDGAR J. BROOKS, Assistant Principal PRINCIPAL Since the fiftieth anniversary of this building comes on a day when some believe they should get more and more for less and less work, it is particularly impera- tive that our young people learn the dignity and honor of honest work. For this reason we still insist that our students be diligent and dependable in their studies. We be- lieve that it is important for young people to have a wholesome attitude toward hard work. We hope the members of this class have acquired an abiding faith in our American ideals, an appreciation of honest success, ambition, courage in the face cf difficulties, and resourcefulness towards the ever- changing problems of the world of to- morrow. May the lessons learned in the Altoona High School equip you for a future of genu- ine progress and achievement. Congratu- lations. ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Fifty years ago the Altoona youth were admitted to this building for the first time. Thereafter a graduating class left on the final day of each school year to achieve positions in education, business, the pro- fessions, and vocational fields. Each class has found, as the class of '56 too will find, that the day seems to carry with it a likeness to what has appeared on this same June day for many years, name- ly, that each such day is a good day to start anew. They have found, as you too will find, that every yesterday seems but a dream and each tomorrow is only a vision. However, a today, well lived, makes every yesterday ci dream of happiness and every tomorrow can be a vision of hope. Look well to this day.