Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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.911 m2MDA.lhm ARCHIE M. SWANGER Death touched the shoulder of Mr. Archie Swanger. October 7, of this year. We had all just started the new school term together when suddenly one was taken from us. There was not one among the faculty or the student body who did not feel the impact of this sorrow. Mr. Swanger was a sensitive and refined man who maintained a true sense of values: he will be remembered with respect. We were proud to call him one ot us. It is a great loss tor Iohnstown High School and many other organizations, of which he was a member, to lose such a fine gentleman. Because in such a personality one finds the essence of character, we can expect his influence to be widespread. ' Even with our faith to lean on, it is difficult for us who are left to mourn, to understand how one can be with us at the close of day and the next to learn that our colleague has entered the door of eternity. But we do know that when he did, he saw the fairest day of'all and one that shall have no end. Ralph Hodgson, a sensitive and refined writer, has given us the poem, The Mystery, where, perhaps, we can find some understanding of such an unexpected loss. . . THE MYs'rsnv He came and took me by the hand Up to the red rose tree, He kept his meaning to himself - But gave the rose to me. I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell ,... and His own face to see. 4- H . t . -L

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ARCHIE M. SWANGER Teacher of History Died October 7, 1954