Middletown High School - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Middletown, MD)

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A MESSAGK TO THE SENIORS ih It is my task and privilege to write a word for the 195 3 Yearbook. 1 say task, be- cause, as 1 gather experience, it seems increasingly difficult to know what words will give direction to the lives of you who leave our schools for endeavor in other fields. When one thinks of the possibilities of youth in this great age, it is little Vk onder that oldsters should become awed and unpretentious. As one realizes your potentiali- ties and your possibilities, one should be profoundly humble. Doubtless some of your names will be eligible for Who ' s Who, while your former teachers are picking daisies in the Elysian Fields. HERBERT F. DAVIS, Prmcipal Much is required of youth in this atomic age. Much can be and must be accomplished if our civilization is to survive. Your thinking must be done in a channel that promotes the betterment of man. You must not have a distorted vision such as Fuchs or Hiss possessed. It is often more important to move steadily and unrelentingly on the right course rather than to move with such haste that one loses sight of its proper direction. Pin your faith to a force outside yourself, a force that causes all of us to make our reach exceed our grasp, as Browning once said. Early in our lives we must begin to build a way of life or philosophy which helps us to steer a straight and steady course always in the right di- rection. Do not be wishy-washy, willy-nilly, tossed about by every little breeze that blows. Upon life ' s voyage set your sails for the course and steer your vessel w ith a steady hand. They tell a story about a fellow down in Tennessee. He plowed the field with a pair of oxen. He would holler gee and haw at them but they paid no attention to him. Then go wherever you please. The whole field has got to be plowed anyway. Our philosophy should harmonize in our lives in such a way that it enables us to get on well with our fellowmen. It keeps us on our course. We are not susceptible to the lure of the imaginary and the artificial when there is calm and poise within ourselves. My wish for your future is that you may always possess a fair mind, a well integrated personality, and a steer in the direction of bettering the world for mankind.

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g)Iic V lvC tfXiit QJu utt qVPxc Sc.vtc Sfa 5 oj ' 1953 MARY GRAMS, Editor MARY THOMAS, Asst.

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2i)cdiculicii We, the Senior Class of Middletown High School, dedi- cate the 1953 Chestnut Burr to the first staff of this year- book, which had its beginning twenty-five years ago. To the staff members — Madeline Harshman, editor-in- chief; Josephine Toms, secretary; Meredith Flook and Emmert Bowius, associate editors; and Lewis Lamar, Max Smith, Fran- ces Ahalt, Fred Hutzell, and Pauline Grossnickle, assistants — we extend our sincere appreciation and thanks for the:r un- tiring efforts and courage in publishing for the first time the Chestnut Burr.