Bethel Park High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bethel Park, PA)

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Dr Siedle To The Class Of 1959 As you look back on the years marked by the period of your lives which is closed when you open this book, each of you might well ask, VVhat have I accomplished? Arn I ready to meet the challenges ahead? In your high school careers, you have grown in maturity and judgmentg you have acquired some new knowledgeg and you have seen monumental, history-making world achievements which have influenced your thinking. Whether or not you have realized the maximum of your capacities, however, will be determined in the years to come. If you have worked up to the limit of your abilities and continue to do so, you will be ready for the tasks before you. As you start your new endeavors, remember your classroom and extra-class successes, don't be deluded by them, but build on the learning you have acquired. Profit by your errors of commission and omission, determine that you will not make the same mistakes again, and don't let them overshadow your efforts. In whatever you may do in the future, my sincere hope is that you will not only be successful but also will have happiness and peace of mind. ff' H .-1.25 9

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t QL A! N' - 1 . t tl...s I la.-. I t K,,- il., S..- 1..- ESL- ,gf- srl-I . Y,- Vi , To The Class Of 1959 You may not have fully appreciated the many major historical events which have taken place in the years you have been in school. The end of VVorld lfviil' II, marked by the world-shaking impact of atomic bombs dropped on Japanese citiesg the post-war readjustment to peacetime endeavors, halted temporarily by the conflict in Korea: the development of television, the jet powered airplane, the outer space rocketsg the harnessing of the atom for the manufacture of elec- tricity and scientific explorationsg research projects resulting in the Salk vaccine and a number of miracle drugs-these are but a few of the developments which affected and modified our way of life in the past few short years. Efforts to apply the wonders of science in the interests of a better world for all mankind have brought us to the realization thatlschool cannot adequately pre- pare you for the future by emphasis upon either the past or the present. Your life of tomorrow will be influenced by new discoveries and new events resulting from these discoveries. We shall have done our work well if we have helped you to understand and to appreciate that we continue to make real progress in a world that refuses to stand stillg a companion objective has been the develop- ment of appropriate attitudes toward honesty, integrity, devotion to duty, and service. You stand on the threshold of a bright future-one that in the next few years will probably bring developments which will outshine those of the past. I pray that you will make your contribution to a better world, and that you will enjoy a full measure of happiness, peace, and security in the years ahead. 8 Dr. Moore

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1 1 i Q., i Languages Left to Right: Miss Golden, Miss Apcl, Miss Bcrtoline, Mr. Lubarski I . i 1 i I I English Left to Right: Mrs. Holliushead, Mr. Mochnick, Mr. jones, Mrs. Carney, Mr. Hutton, Miss Provins, Mrs. Hopper, Mrs. McMasters Social Studies Left to Right: Mr. Reno, Mr. Owsi- any, Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Hutton, Mr Mazerov, Mr. Pearson