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

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r tlE-WII TO THE SENIORS For three years we have been associated in a relation most intimate and pleasant. During this time we have had many questions to decide, many problems to solve. It is a source of great satisfaction and pride, that I can tell you now on the eve of your graduation, that in all things your decisions were always for the school’s best interests. The record you leave the school attests your cooperation with your leader. The traditions handed down by previous classes to you have been preserved and the standards in all lines not only maintained but even raised to a higher plane. When has there been a greater earnestness in class work than that shown by the Class of Seventeen? When have the athletic teams given a better account of themselves; and in passing let me ask when has so large a number of pupils in the New Castle High School actively participated in athletics? When has a class play equaled your presentation of “Much Ado About Nothing”? And the opera, “The Mikado,” even surprised your Principal, so well was it done. The Monitor? I have no hesitancy in saying, that the Monitor throughout the entire year 1916-1917 has been the most uniformly good high school publication I have ever known. For your virtues, my friends, we praise you. For your faults, which we trust are few, we censure. And for your loyalty to your Principal in his efforts to give you the best school possible, you have his sincere gratitude. Accept my congratulations upon your graduation from high school. You have attained this honor only through hard and continuous effort. But if you have learned the lesson of hard work; if you have learned to enjoy hard work; if you have learned to keep your heart singing while working, your future is assured. Graduation means that you have persisted at your task until its successful completion. You may soon forget most of the facts learned in your daily lessons. You may not find any practical applications for the work pursued during your high school course. What matters that? If your high school course has taught you the lesson of hard work; if you have gained from your four years spent here, the power to attack a problem and “stick to it” until you have thought it through to a successful solution, you are eminently worthy of your diploma. This power is yours, if you have earned it. If not, your diploma will but mock you for the time wasted. The time has come to say goodbye. This I do with a heavy heart, for our three years of most pleasant, harmonious, devoted relations, have endeared you all to me. Live up to all I believe you are. Live up to all you hope to be. 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 through life, your school motto: NOTHING BUT THE BEST “Friends must part and strangers meet; Ties be broken that once were sweet; Things must change from old to new; And the best of friends must bid adieu.” J. L. THALMAN. 7 ■i

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EZtEQjl -syLjp T O iflr. Jrmtk 1C. (!)rtli The Class of 1917 wishes to express its appreciation for his faithful work in the financial department of The Monitor and The Ne-Ca-Hi. Mr. Orth has spent many years at New Castle High School, during which time his efficient work has been a powerful factor in raising the standard of The Monitor. Through this, the Senior year book, the Seniors of 1917 wish to express their gratitude to Mr. Orth. 9 u