Connellsville High School - Coker Yearbook (Connellsville, PA)

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A history of this city states that Connellsville was developed by the coal and coke industry. This industry, no doubt, had a great part to do with its growth. The real development of Con- nellsville has been accomplished by constant labor and diligent service. All the worthwhile organizations: government, schools, churches, homes, and service organizations, have meant hard work and sacrifice on the part of someone to make this way of life possible for you. To you, the youth of Connellsville, goes a responsibility, not only to promote all these fine established organizations and insti- tutions in your city, but to develop to greater heights a demo- cratic way of life so that every boy and girl of any race, creed, or economic background, may have equal opportunities in choos- ing his way of life. As your forefathers developed an industry for the foundations of your community, may you develop in- dustries and institutions that may build a city free from influences that wreck lives of youth and create an atmosphere of goodwill and brotherhood among all citizens. We live at a time when ideals of service and international understanding are sorely needed. The opportunities for service by individuals in these troubled times are great. The prime object of the days you spent at high school was to acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Your efforts, we sin- cerely hope, have been crowned with success. However, it must be remembered wisdom is quite useless if it is not accompanied by actions. Wisdom and action go together, one without the other is useless, but when both are applied, the result can only be successful, the degree of success depending entirely upon the extent of the knowledge and the wholeheartedness exhibited in the carrying out of the duty. It would be well to resolve to use your knowledge to ad- vance human welfare and to help make this world a better place in which to live. It should always be borne in mind that actions speak louder than words. 7 MISS MILDRED REITER MR. HAROLD A. SWANK

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MR. W. G. DAVIS MR. W. E. DOLDE Commencement activities are again making their rounds as you seniors approach the end of the school year. It would be a decided advantage if it were possible to realize the position each one of you will be filling within the next five years. What- ever that status may be, of one thing we can be certain-you will be alumni of the Connellsville High School, your Alma Mater. In addition to making a living, other obligations will devolve upon each one. Not only should you strive to be economically independent, but each and all of you should be most eager to make your contributions as a citizen to the community in which you live. This will call forth all of the abilities, attitudes, and appveciations which you have cultivated in your school career and which you should utilize to make your environment a better one because you have lived in it and labored to improve the gen- eral standard of living. The prestige of the Class of 1948 should inspire the remain- ing classmen to greater effort and achievement which are essen- tial for all success. We are pleased to extend to each member of 1948 our heartiest best wishes during the years which lie ahead. From your generation will come the citizens of tomorrow and upon you will be passed the responsibility of clear thinking and intelligent action. Therefore, you should have been striving for the maturity of mind which that responsibility requires. Your outlook should now be broadened to include a wider and wider circle of experience. You should find yourselves being concerned with something more than what affects you only. You should have developed a sense of responsibility that compels you to finish a iob. You should be able to cope with problems more sensibly, to reserve your judgment under emotional pressure, to reiect preiudice, to practice tolerance, to weigh values, to resist and analyze propaganda, and to make wise decisions. Your school experiences here have provided many indica- tions of your growth toward this maturity, conduct in assembly, acting with genuine courtesy, keeping your emotions under con- trol, exercising good taste in social situations expressing sym- pathy and understanding, accepting responsibility for your own learning, thinking in terms of newer and broader values. As you leave this high school, evaluate yourselves and con- tinue to strive for this maturity. 6

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THE SCHOOL BOARD Dr. H. H. Mclntire Mr. J. C. Munson, Jr. Mr. W. L. Zollars Mr. J. R. Mestrezaf Mr. C. V. Payne V. President President Treasurer Dr. C. S. Campbell Mr. J. V. Schroyer 8