Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

Page 25 text:

To the Class of 1947, we of the faculty extend our heartiest congratulations and our best wishes for your continued success. Now that most of your formal education has been completed, you will be given many op- portunities to try your newly acquired skills and knowledge as you take your places as citizens of the world. That is life, and the success that you will achieve will be deter- mined, at least in some degree, by the strength of the foundation which you have laid during the past twelve years. However, the foundation of one's life is not the only determining factor of an individual's suc- cess. To continue to build on it effectively, he must have high ideals. He must be sen- sitive to the needs of his fellow men and be willing to serve them. He must have an outloolc on life, tempered by a rich religious philosophy, and his everyday relationships must reflect the principles of living em- bodied in the Sermon on the Mount. To live such a life is to be a success. The class of 1947 is being graduated at a very important period in our history. The discovery of atomic energy proposes many new problems and its potential uses stagger the imagination. It has been predicted that within the next three decades our modes of living will be completely revolutionized. These changes will fall well within the life span of the members of this class. Those of us who have worked with you do not fear for the future. We feel that it will be in competent hands. William T. Bean. William T Bean Principal of Senior High School

Page 24 text:

Those lac Difzecf The wofzlz ohn D Anderson Superintendent of Schools To the Graduates of 1947: The selection of The Atomic Agen as the theme for your year book indicates the significance you place upon recent scientific developments. Achievements bordering on the miraculous are taking place at a breath- taking tempo. It is a day of wonders. One hesitates to go to sleep for fear that he will miss the thrilling announcement of another accomplishment. Youth is to be envied the opportunity to enjoy the products of man's genius which will be available in the decades ahead. Atomic energy successfully har- nessed for destructive purposes is being applied to relieve suffering. It is not un- reasonable to anticipate that during your life time men and women engaged in re- search will discover the causes and cures of deadly and baffling diseases which have plagued mankind for centuries. Woven into the fabric of human progress are certain vital threads which do not change with periods of time. They are the common virtues-as eternal as the sun and as essen- tial. They must be cultivated. The produc- tion of a greater number and of more pow- erful automobiles means that we must be increasingly concerned about the welfare and safety of our fellow citizens. In every phase of human activity there is need for maintaining a high standard of behavior. To you who are completing the secondary school course we wish the success and happi- ness which comes to those who are diligent in their work and noble in their conduct. John D. Anderson

Page 26 text:

John T. Hogg Assistant Principal of Senior High School Only a generation or two ago the tele- phone, automobile, airplane, radio, and many other now matter-of-fact things were unknown. Each brought in a new agen with its attendant possibilities of a better and hap- pier way of life. None of them created any new powers but merely performed the func- tion of freeing the powers that, through the countless ages, have lain dormant in this old universe of ours, waiting for man to find a way of liberating the powers and to put them to the proper use of mankind. Now the atomic age is here. A new power? No, only the discovery of a new power with its terrifying and destructive potentialities as well as with its amazing, wise, and intel- ligent use for all civilization. Each member of the senior class, you have a world all your own, in the confines of your body, held there in secret, only by the limits of your own personal desire to give freedom to the powers you possess. You may not become a Great', in science or medicine, but you can become a Good in whatever you undertake within the limits of your powers, but only on one condition, that you use the talents you have to the fullest. John T. Hogg