Leadville High School - Sentinel Yearbook (Leadville, CO)

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Www THE MOUNT MASSIVE SENTINEL A A A A A A A A FROM THE PRIMI TI VE TO THE COMPLEX Today we sometumes take our educatuon for granted However uf we look back through the ages at man s deve opment we real ze what a precuous commoduty we have un our educatuon The struggle from the prumutuve to the complex has been long and duffucult I should luke to trace for you the hustory of man s desure and efforts to better humself through knowledge Nature was prumutuve man s f rst teacher Gradually nature was replaced by human teachers fathers mothers ancestors or members of the same trube Lessons were passed on from generatuon to generatuon by word of mouth or by actually doung thlngs Eventually, wrutung came unto beung Thus gave a more accurate and dependable means of passung on knowledge However only those of hugh socual standung or those trauned for professuons learned to wrute as hand wrutung was a slow and teduous process MARY CATHERINE WEBER Skulls and crafts were passed on from father to son and later by the apprentuceshup method As apprentuceshup traunung developed guulds were formed These were orgamzed assocuatuons t at kept standards of workmanshup at a hugh level A new era was slowly ushered un wuth the help of new unventuons The compass came unto general use un the fourteenth century enablung duscoverues whuch opened up the New World In true early fufteenth century the unventuon of pruntung brought learnung wrthun the reach of all allow Ing books and publucatrons to be prunted wuth much greater ease A whole page could be prunted at once Instead of beung copued letter by letter Thus method was much cheaper and quucker and as books became more common a greater number of people learned to read Knowledge that had been lumuted to the few was now avaulable to the many Only a few were prunted un the fufteenth century last year over ll O00 tutles were publushed ln the Unuted States alone As each new thought udea or unventuon was developed educatuon for the masses slowly came unto beung Elementary schools were formed and later hugh schools and unstututuons of hugher learmng appeared In the old days when a man wushed to become a doctor lawyer or enter some other professuon, he dud ut by the apprentuceshup system Now there us scarcely any fueld of human endeavor that us not provuded for by a college or unuversuty course lnventuon of the steam engune led to the development of more undustrues and to the extensuon of trans portatuon New fuelds un cuvul and mechanucal enguneerung were opened and unterest un natural scuence un creased As new areas of unterest broadened more knowledge was gauned Instructuon no longer could be lumuted to textbooks and lectures Laboratorues were set up to aud un learnung and research un agruculture munung enguneerung meducune chemustry physucs and many other scuentufuc fuelds Thunk of the thungs that we possess today such as the electruc lught raduo televusuon telegraph atom bomb and numberless other unventuons that prumutuve man never dreamed of or vusualuzed Thunk too of what use us all thus knowledge skull and abulutues that we have gauned down through the centurues uf we stull have fughtung and dusagreements that threaten eventually to destroy our world'-P We may boast of how much better educated ve are today than our prumutuve ancestors but of what use us thus educatuon, uf we use at to destroy ourselves? If we are to have peace and amuty between the people of the world, we must struve to develop our mmds and souls for the betterment of mankund as w have developed the materual sude of the world fflflauy Cafgz-:'uns Flflfz vez, Cya scfuczfouauz ' 1 1 V . , . . . .. ,I . . , 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 . . . u . . , . u . . . .. . .. . , - . . 5 , . . I , 1 1 1 1 - 1 . , . . Q , 1 1 1 1 1 - . . . . . .. g 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 I . .. . . . . - 1 S . I Z, F ' '

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THE MOUNT MASSIVE SENTINEL CLASS POEM Farewell to you old Leadvnlle Hugh The pleasant years have sllpped on by The time has come and we must part Wlth fond memornes locked In our hearts Farewell to each and all of you Who taught us well the golden rule For In the classrooms you ve been faur You ve gulded us through strife and care And as we travel the road of life One of 'oy sorrow and strife Your teachings now will linger on And remann In memory when we re gone Agam we ll recall those years gone by And frnends we ve made In Leadvnlle Hugh Well hear their bright and cheerful laughter And see their faces forever after B1IIPezd1rc 2-X 2-ff-0-of?-f f-f CLASS SONG Tune Tnl the End of Tnme As today we part Wnth a mem ry In our heart Of the perfect days and years we ve Spent IH dear old Leadvllle Hugh We go on with lsfe Facing fame and maybe strife The knowledge ganned wnll grow deeper Wnth every passing day Leaving all those dear Teachers friends wnth grief smcere Well ne er forget the loys won In these years Through laughter and through tears So now we bud you fond adreu And place our trust anew In fate and hopes and dreams Untul the end of tlme Jim Raine and Dorothy Ann Zalar . ..,. -,,,.. ..,..f,.,,...,.- -1 :VZ , . I . , . , . . I I ' 1 1 1 - . . , ' I . , . . . , . . ,-3-4,-4 ,.'.f..r..f....f..1..,'..,..,f,...f.....f...,..f--.. - .., E . E ..f..f,..1,. -4- - ..,f-f -f-,.... ..,..'..f,., .,,..f,.,.. -V ..1.. .. , 4 . ,,.f,.f,.,f f..f,.,f..4,.f,..f,..,..,f,..1,-f,..,f,-4?-g,..f,,.3,.f,..1..f- . 111 f - 11 1 . , . 1 I 1 ' I ' ' ' 1 I I ' , , . . 1

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f-1-KF-fo THF MOUNT MASSIVE SENTINEL NON PROI REDI EST REGREDI lNot to go forward IS to go backward Z i5 EducatIon IS the acquIsItIon of knowledge whIch enables a person to fIt Inf0 the scheme of lIfe at the perIod In whIch he lIves It IS the abllty to earn a lIvIng to use leIsure tIme effectIvely and to obey laws Intelllgently Educa tIon IS not estImated by he years spent In scnool nor by the number of books read but It IS the possessIon of IngredIents whIch make a good cItIzen We attend school for twelve years durIng whIch tIme we are traIned In the bGSIC fundamentals of lIfe The thought of graduatuon from hIgh school scmetImes brungs the Idea that educatIon IS no longer necessary To the students graduatIng however commencement marks not an end of learnIng but the begInnIng We shall began to use what knowledge we have already acquIred and to enlarge upon our educatIon To be o better Cllllen and a true AmerIcan we must contInue to educate ourselves all our lIves As KIplIng once SUId I had SIX honest servung men DARLYNE MAGURA They taught me all I knew' Theur names were Where and What and When and Why and How and Who By readlng askmg questIons and taklng an QCTIVS part In our community and natIon we grow In knowledge Knowledge IS a treasure but PFGCTICE IS the key to It LearnIng Involves more than IntellIgence and mental agIlIty It also takes physIcal control whIch we acqunre In tIme We must be competent In the We must have a fIrm background and understandIng of the sublect whIch we are dIscussIng or what rIght have we to crItIcIze others actIons'P If the PresIdent sIgns or vetoes a law who are we to say It IS wrong If we do not know anythIng about It We have to know how laws are made of what Importance they wIll be to us and what laws of former tImes have accomplIshed As tImes change so do the people and theIr needs We all have the Gblllfy and the facIlItIes by whIch to further our educatIon and It IS our prIvIlege and oblIgatIon to do so We can take one of two courses after we recenve our dIplomas elther to contmue up the ladder to success or to remaIn statIonarv on the bottom level To remaIn statnonary IS to go backward Prcaress IS worth an effort EducatIon should not be looked upon as an accumulatIon of facts but also the Improvement of our own envIronment Of what value IS an educatlon If we do not put It to any use? A VIQOYOUS and well edu cated people produce a powerful natIon One blow of an ax wIll not destroy a well buIlt fortress We are the buIlders of our country so let us be well educated to have a strong fortress GgGlnSl the ax of Ignor ance We the Class of 54 endeavor to go forward never to qo backward We are now the leaders of thIs free land of AmerIca To uphold the AmerIcan prIncIple IS oI.r prIvIlege a prIvIlege that only educo tIon can keep In exustence We are proud to have that pflVllege and we wIll contmue to advance our edu catIon to protect our freedom and yours Sbwcflyrzs dlflagwca, ggafufafozcan J W I . . I . . . I . , U Q . . . , . . I ' I I I 1 I l . I . . I . . . . . . . , . learning ability before we can say we are well educated. . .. . , . . . ,, . - , , ,, , . . . I ' I , . , , I - . . - ll II ' I I .V ' 4 ' I - .