Curwensville Area High School - Echo Yearbook (Curwensville, PA)

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THE ECHO CLASS POEM The time has come for parting And now we say good-byeg We're ready for departing Now don't begin to cry. We few have made the grade, Of all who with us entered, We've all the luck we've made So we're on the future center'd. We've spent four happy years ln our dear old high-school: And we now depart with tears, Tho' we're happy, calm, and cool. When our school ties do cease, Oh, oft for you we'll sigh. We wish you luck and peaceg Good-bye, my schoolmates, good-bye. Esther Freeman

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THE ECHO 7 HONEST EFFORT This is an age when achievement is emphasized in every walk of life. Every religious movement, social condition, and economic problem is measured in the terms of success. We are driven to accomplish our desire by a great force of nervous energy. In our great desire to achieve, to attain success, how many of us hesitate long enough to take a personal inventory of the quality of our labor? In our study and preparation and in the examinations we succeed in pass- ing, do we put forth all that we are actually capable, our honest effort? Does the man at his labor, the executive in his office, the clergy in his pulpit, the professional man in his practice, and the teachers in the school room give of themselves and their time, the full measure of application and service that measures up to the height of honest effort? Mere success is temporary. True achievement is everlasting. Honorable accomplishment is the reward that comes with conscious discharge of duty. There is no short cut on the road to success. There are barriers to pass over, obstacles to overcome and temptations to guard against. If we will but attach serious importance to the need of being in earnest and constantly strive to attain our goal through honest effort, there lies our greatest glory. Frequently, to succeed is to fail and to fail succeed. For in the final analysis, honor and glory go not to the victor, but are achieved by the ones who put forth their honest effort. Too often we hear that the measure of a man to-day is the success he attains, not the effort he puts forth. But we need only to examine the career of any prominent man or woman to see that his prominence rests on a solid foundation of honest effort. There can be no real success without such effort: there can be no real failure with it. Honesty without effort results only in futile dreaming. Effort without honesty leads inevitably to disaster. Olga Errigo MODERN FICTION The success of a book is often determined by its sale in a department store. If it is a good seller, it is considered a good book. The people have a strong ap- petite for fadism. A novel to be successful must bear the stamp of society rather than the approval of the critic. If a noted society matron likes a certain novel, whatever its qualities may be, the people in turn consider the novel good and just what they should read. The people of today, see much of the sordid side of life in their walking through the streets, the dust and grime is very prominent. The life of the slums is known to most people. Then the people have to be shocked by their reading to be amused. The people don't care to have their reading matter true or real, in fact realism was never a fad. Truth has never been fashionable. No society takes up phil- osophy as an amusement. A story may become a fad, if it is shocking enough, if it has in it the thrill of delicious wickedness. Such novels have their time for the present but they cannot live. Fiction is a necessary element of modern education in our country. A novel is an intellectual luxury and only the best should be given credit. Of the making of books, there is no end. -Era Cometta

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THE ECHO 9 ir? GRETCHEN LEIB, A. B. W. L. MCCREIGHT, B. S. Curwensville High School Indiana High School Grove City College Indiana Normal School Tea h f L t. d F h Kiskiminetas Springs School c er o a m an renc W. at College Camp Lee Phi Kappa Psi American Legion Teacher of Maihemafics and Hislory MARY MARGARET HIPPS, LITT. B. Curwensville High School Grove City College Emerson School of Speech, Boston Teacher of English PAUL G. ROBISON, A. B. HARRY H. FOREMAN, A. B., PRIN Cu'w1f,fSXIieIf'gh ichool Hershey High School Y-Ci U .erm-CE Shippensburg State Normal School 5? -ll-llivtZrSi3y Lebanon Valley College Amigcan izgign Teacher of Science Teacher of Hislory and Malhemalics