Kensington High School - Compass Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Page 12 Ae f7Q...I, .5 THOMAS J. MCDONNELI., M.A., PRINCIPAL JOHN N. CHASSIN, M.A., ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL MONICA P. LAI-IIFF, B.A., ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT GRACE J. SCHROEDER, SECRETARY ROSALIA M. I-IARTMAN, B.A., LIBRARIAN MAXINE J. KEISER, BA., ASSISTANT LIIIRARIAN ETI-IEL E. ARMSTRONG, R.N. COMMERCIAL DorolIIy M. CrisiaII, B.A. AnnaI0uise K. Foss, B.A. Doris E. I'IolcI1Iciss, BS. Robert J. Johnston, BS. SacIie E. Kauffman EcIwarcI D. Kramer, BS. I:Iorenre R. LeIIcIe, BS. JoIIn J. Meegan, BS. JoI1n F. ReiIIy, PII. B. Louis R. Roseliie, BS. Lewis I... SmilII, BS. ENGLISH Grace R. AItenIJurg, B.A. Louise F. BeIcIen, B.A. June A. BIair, M.A. RutII C. CuIIiion. B.A. Marie C. Curran, M.A. Rcuel N. Dcnney, B.A. HeIcn H. Evans, B.S, Margaret M. HeaIey, M.A. Margaret Kocsis Heaps, B.A. Irene S. Johnson, BS. Mary C. Kannnerer, M.A. Jolm F. KeIIy. B.A. MiIdred T. Kennedy, B.A. IVIIICIICCI I... Lee, B.A. Ann I. MaIoney. M.A. Bridie S. O'Day, B.A. JoIIn Roche, B.A. IVI. Agnes Scanlon, BS. FINE A Earl BrownjoIm XNIIIIIHIII Pinkow, B.INI. RTS

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.-1.-.- - ... L. t ujaezmzienaanziij 'pay On Vvednesday, May l7, Dr. Robert T. Bapst, Superintendent ot Schoots, made his annuat spring visit to Kensington High Schoot, a custom begun during our tzirst year and one which we hope Witt continue as our most vatued tradition. The assembty, attended by att the upper ctasses, began with the singing ot America by time audience. After The Trumpeterf' a soto by Cart Panzaretta, the band ptayed two spirited numbers. tn his inspiring and impressive speech to the students, Dr. Bapst spotie on the ideats of a democracy and the individuat's responsibitity toward his government. A true democracy, he said, is tounded on toyatty, obedience. respect, and toterance. Devetoping these themes, the Superin- tendent pointed out that there is no toyatty untess there is sincere tove behind it. The true citizen shows his toyatty through tovc ot the country and its constitution and through respect for the taws handed down by his ancestors. UVVQ rcatizef' he said, Hthat our government is not perfect, but we shoutd atso reatize that anything absotutety pertect does not exist in this wortdf' it any ttaw exists, the speaker suggested, that error can toe corrected without the drastic measure ot overlhrowing the entire government. The aposttes ot unrest, said Dr. Bapst, are those demagogues who go about trying to matce happy men unhappy by tetting them what they shoutd demand as tree Americans. Therefore. toyatty to a country does not necessarity mean sacrificing one's tite: it can atso find true expression in opposition to those who ptot its downtatt. Dr. Bapst pointed out that in order to appreciate the privitcges we have as citizens ot the United States, we must First understand them thoroughty. The rights we cherish today were tought tor years ago in the American Revotution and handed down to us in the Bitt ot Rights and the Constitution. Freedom of speech, press, retigion, and assembty are advantages we enjoy as members of the most truty democratic country in the wortd. The Superintendent stressed the duty ot the individuat to safeguard these inatienabte rights by respect tor the government and obedience to taws made tor the common good. To emphasize this point. Dr. Bapst quoted Cicero's famous words: See to it, my tettowmen, that as it was a nobte thing on the part ot your toretathers to hand down to you this repubtic, that it be not accounted to your cternat disgrace not to be abte to protect that which you have received. What you have you must cherish deepty, said the speatcer, tor when it is gone you reatize its importance. UA government, he added, is perpetuated through taws first made by those who were truty toyat citizens. Hence, obedience to the rutes ot our government is essentiat tor its preservation. Speaking of toterance, Dr. Bapst emphasized the tact that race and cotor are onty accidentat and that one man is equatty as important as another. There is no raciat distinction in this country and no man can boast ot his race as superior to another. tor equatity is the tundamentat theory ot a democracy. uvve are att brothers, he said, Hand shoutd act as brothers. We shoutd have respect tor everyone, regardtess ot race, sex, retigion, or cotor. Neither shoutd there be any teeting of intetteetuat superiority. Those who are more intettigent than others are not necessarity better men, tor each is tatented in his own way. For the btessings ot intettect. there may be substituted a speciat tcnactc or art in some other tietct to compensate the man tess fortunate mentattyf' Retigion, Dr. Bapst totd the students. is the foundation ot att things and in this democratic country every man may worship as he pteases. Christianity, he continued, is more than church- going on Sunday. tt shoutd inspire in us the same consideration tor others as we have tor our- setves. You cannot tove God untess you tove your neighbor. Safeguarding the principtes ot our government witt be the tuture responsibitity ot those who are stitt students. We shoutd be prepared to accept that duty with the reatization that every true American must be ready to matte great sacrifices in order to preserve the democracy. Fottowing his speech, Dr. Bapst was presented with a houquet ot roses by Edith Startc, Secre- tary ot the Senior Ctass. At the conctusion ot the assembty, Etaine Majchrzak and the student chorus sang God Btess America.

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.l l.l. - l.. -1 ffendm fan 0-of HOME ECONOMICS Catherine .IoImson, BS. Elizabeth IVIeacI1, BS. Naomi Stoesscr, BS. INDUSTRIAL ARTS VViIIiam H. MiIIer LANGUAGES Mary C. BeIIcnap, B.A. Venetia CI1aImers, B.A. Howard II. GIeason, IVI.A. AdaIene A. I'IaII, IVI.A. Margaret K. McCarthy, B.A. I'IeIen I... TewIcsIoury, B.A. Catherine VaIente, B.A. Ruth Westerman, B.A. MATHEMATICS Anne Connors, B.A. Agnes J. Creahan, IVI.A. Gertrude Lander, B.A. Martin IVI. I..arraIJee, BS. Norma J. Larrison, B.A. Alice T. I..inIc, B.A. Virginia E. Mayer, IVI.A. Margaret M. McGee, B.A. Henry Rosenbaum, IVI.A, Laverna C. SanI'Ieet, B,A. Mary R. SteuzIIe, IVI.A. PHYSICAL EDUCATION Wilbur S. Bergstrom Anne IVI. IVIcIII1enney Louis C. Montgomery, BS. BertI1a J. Otte, B.P.E. Dorothy F. Rich, BS. EIeanor J. Seymour, BS. G. John Warren SCIENCE I'IcrI1erl L. AIIoing, BS. Irene Earclman, BS. Leon E. Haynes. BS. Grace M. Heacock, BS. Lena Kauffman, BS. Thomas D. Mountain, BS. AIvin Rutslein, Irene E. VVHII SOCIAL SCIENCE Erma Diekman, B.A. Lenore DunIavey, B.A, I'IeIen K. Goossen, IVIS. Moira IVI. I'IaIey, B.A. Robert Kunz, B.A. Margaret IVI. Mack, B.A. Norman K. IVIiIIarcI, B.A. EIIen T. RoiI1, B.A. Louise StricIcIancI, B.A. Verna G. VVaIIcer, IVI.A. Page I5