Lebanon High School - Lodestone Yearbook (Lebanon, PA)

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Lebanon School Board Seated: Milan Lipensky; Walter R. Kohr, Jr.; Herman H. Hitz, Jr., Vice-President; Geoffrey L. Sowers, President; Paul C. Dunkelberger, Superintendent; Mrs. Jean L. Gohn; Dr. Martin Schneider. Standing: Frederick C. Bomberger, Assistant to the Superintendent for Non-instructional Services; Harol E. Donmoyer; The Rev. Warren G. Hoopes, Jr.; Keith H. Lebo, Assistant Superintendent; George H. Strickler; Robert A. Nichols, 3rd, Secretary of the Board and Assistant to the Superintendent for Business Affairs; Brian G. Zimmerman, Acting Treasurer; George E. Christianson, Solicitor. Mr. Paul Dunkelberger, Superintendent of Schools.

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THIS THE TIME FOR MATURITY Graduating is always a personal, memorable and highly significant event. It is also synonomous with ma¬ turing. Graduation has placed you upon a new threshold from which you gave greater vision and a broadened hor¬ izon to face your mature fife. While high school graduation is a one-time event, ma¬ turity is a natural lifetime process which will serve to con¬ tinually prepare you to move forward in life. Life is an ever-changing process for which you need to be continually prepared. In spite of this, the mentally maturing individual realizes that certain basics should remain unaltered. Among these I would place the neces¬ sity for Divine Guidance, a belief in the future, truth, integrity, justice, the unity of home and family, respect for the dignity and worth of the individual and a govern¬ ment that derives its just powers and authority from the consent of the governed. As maturing educated individuals you should not ac¬ cept either complacency nor despair. Instead, you need to face the world as it is and through the application of in¬ telligence, reasoning, sincerity, common sense, hard work and the application of the democratic process, endeavor to make it a better world for yourself and your fellow man. As such, you need support those principles, people and institutions which contribute to the wholesomeness of life and the elevation of society. The truly mature person realizes that no one individual ever inherits the world, nor has the right to control it, and that the world owes no one a living. He realizes that every individual has the right to live and to work in the world, along with his fellow man and, also, that he has the personal responsibility to preserve and improve it for the generations as yet unborn. Finally, through maturity you will bring into reality the dreams of your youth. It is my hope that these have been large and realistic dreams as you set forth on the road of fife. My sincere congratulations and personal good wishes for success and happiness shall forever remain with you. £ a. JZ h

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Mr. Edward Palmer, Principal. Mr. Palmer’s Message Is “Search For Truth” Commencement for the graduating class of 1971 repre¬ sents the end of your high school education. From the time of your graduation you will find the road of fife winds up hill all the way. You will have no easy pathway in this world and in your fife. If you have the idea that life is more difficult in this age and becomes easier you have an entirely false view of your future and the ways of the world. Life is narrow all the way. There will be subtle tempta¬ tions on the road of life, and you will have to watch and be on guard from the beginning to the end. Life offers to each one of us a share of difficulties. It is a poor kind of person who wants only the easy and avoids the difficult. Anybody can follow the ordinary. It takes a real deci¬ sion to reach for the greater heights. Life should be fun and rewarding. It calls for strength of character, commitment to serve, and to give back to fife all the talents God gave you. Begin your young adult fife by asking and seeking, but always look for the truth. ■ F -grL Mr. John Fox, Vice Principal. Mr. James Jackson, Vice Principal. Mr. Harry Matala, Vice Principal.