New Castle High School - Ne Ca Hi Yearbook (New Castle, PA)

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HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY. PRINCIPAL - - JOSEPH LUTHER THALMAN ENGLISH Bertha Monica Stearnes, Head of Department. Buhla Sinclair Mitchell Alonzoa May Hoagland Mary Jean Coates Grace A. Farrell GERMAN Erna Konradine von Daggenhausen, Head of Department. Mary Gertrude Riffer Francis Willard Floyd Foulke SCIENCE Frank Louis Orth, Head of Department Joseph Cooper Blucher Laura McKeever ART Hallie Irene Miller MANUAL TRAINING Louis K. Amsden COMMERCIAL Stanley David Birath, Head of Department May Woods Lewis Harold Arthur Packard Roseina C. Gillman Florence N. Evans LATIN Louise Kelley Rose McCracken Stewart HISTORY Oscar Jackson Shealfer, Head of Department. Carl Reed Baldwin Elizabeth Norris Patterson MATHEMATICS Edwin William Schreiber, Head of Department Odis V. Boone Claude Wilson Sankey Sara Sankey FRENCH Margaret Kingsmill Finley 14

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TO THE SENIORS. “We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade.” How accurately that little couplet expresses the relations of the Seniors and Principal! And now that we are about to part, permit me as your Principal to express to you my sincere appreciation of your spirit of loyalty to the school and its every interest during the past year. As 1 look back and recount the many questions we had to decide together, I find that without exception, in every instance, you accepted the Principal’s suggestions and made of the year 1914-T5, one of which the school my well be proud. The record you have made in all lines of school activities—scholastic, literary, athletic, social—is one that will challenge succeeding classes to their very best to equal. Four time champions in basketball. A number of three letter (football, basketball and baseball) men and a larger number having won the “N” in two lines of sport, speaks eloquently of your athletic prowess. The large number listed on the monthly honor roll attests your scholarship while the class play “Twelfth Night” surprised even yourselves so well was it done. And hasn’t the gymnasium justified itself this year, as never before? The work so well begun in the High School is but the promise of what we may expect from you in the future. Wherever you go, whatever you do, whether in the class room of some higher institution of learning or in the work shop, take with you the spirit of your Senior year and you cannot fail. It has been said “what we are at eighteen that we are for the rest of our lives”. How glad I am then to address you as graduates, for graduation is symbolic of two things—“hard work” and “sticking to a thing until it is finished”. Hard work is the salt of the earth. If you have learned to do it and succeed in it and enjoy it during your High School course, then the world has a place for you. If you have learned to attack a problem and “stay with it” however hard, until you have tho’t it thro’ to a successful conclusion, you are an honor to the diploma you expect. These are the results you have a right to expect in return for your four years spent in High School. They are yours, if you have earned them, otherwise your diploma will only mock you for the time wasted. Then with a warm clasp of the hand, my friends, I wish you God speed. In all that you do, live true to your best ideals. Keep your mind and body pure, your heart true, your soul noble. Keep ever before you as your guiding principle, your School Motto—“NOTHING BUT THE BEST.” 13 J. L. THALMAN.

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