Allderdice High School - Allderdice Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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The T ituu 3' Duughter The tita'n's daughter rises out of the white-'hot flames of steel. Three placid, blue rivers adorn her tunic. Robed in the green of her parks and the silver of her skyscrapers, This vision of the future holds her head high. With her coming, the storm-clouds have dissolved. Her ruby gaze reflects the clearness of the heavens. She lifts her graceful arms. In a flourish of fire, she sets free her winged heralds-atom-powered rockets. Into the skies the rockets zoom, Singing praises to their mistress with the thunder of their exhausts. A twinkling diadem of atoms sits upon her divine head, VVhile at her feet stand her sons and daughters. We are these so-ns and daughters. VV hile we are sheltered beneath the white columns of learning now, VVe shall build the future envisioned in our dreams. Then, when we have passed through all the gateways to our dreams, Our goddess of the future will become real. The Father 0 f the Future Gazing -out -over the nation, The -mighty colossus flexes muscles of steel. His lifeblood surges in three silver arteries toward his throbbing heart at Gateway Center. He fixes his sapphaire eye on 't'he skies, The clouds gathering about his brow. In furious torrents the rain pours down. Like an organ that peals throughout an echoing cathedral, The giant mo-oks 'the storm. His voluminous voice drowns out the thunder. Then, -his iron fingens reach into the clouds. He snatches -the jagged lightning and hurls it in huge, flashing over 'his rivers. The lightning bolts, stuck fast, remain as bridges. Spewing a fountain of molten steel from his furnace mouth, He cups his hands to catch it-he fiery liquid. He whirls t'hi-s white-'hot steel in-to a sphere. With a -powerful stroke, t'he titan flings the flaming ball upward. Flying heavenward, the gleaming mass splashes falling sparks. VV'here 'these sparks touch t'he earth below, New buildings, new mills, new sc-hools spring up. The burning steel globe continues its flight upward. Up through the storm-clouds hurls t'he incandescent mass- Up through the clear skies above. Out 'of this steel fire the future is born. Grander, more powerful than its giant parent, The new future shines, A shooting star in the eastern heaven of hopes. 10 arches

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Success Builds Uur City Pittsburgh is the product of success. In this city of steel, enterprising men have amassed fortunes. As these leaders of industry have prospered. so has their city. A prime example of this mutual success between man and his city is the story of Henry John Heinz. From a youth raking his vege- table garden in Sharpsburg, Heinz eventually founded a multi-million dollar vegetable preserves business. Today products rolling down the bottling line at the huge North Side factory are shipped all over the globe. Heinz, an internationally known name, has brought recognition to Pittsburgh as the home of the nation's food preserves. Other men have thus rewarded Pittsburgh, the cradle of their success. One man, Andrew Carnegie, has become the idol of ambitious youth. Not even an American by birth, Carnegie first worked in Allegheny City as a bobbin boy for S120 a week. S-oon advancing to minor positions on the tele- graph lines and the railroads, Carnegie began to envision a new future ahead. He later organized the Keystone Bridge Works, which built the first iron bridge over the Ohio. Carnegie then went into iron and steel. Combining eight important steel firms into the mammoth Carnegie Steel Company, this Pittsburgher had increased the value of his business to S500,000,000 by 1901. Carnegie had crowned his city the steel capital of the world. Another of the greatest builders of Pittsburgh was Andrew Mellon. A native of the steel city, this banker's son entered his father's business after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh. During the course of his business career, the younger Mellon enlarged the bank, formed the Union Trust Company, -organized the Gulf Oil Corporation, and established the Pittsburgh Coal Company. His heirs, too, built m-onuments of their own. In the middle of humming, metropolitan Downtown Pittsburgh, for example, stands a fresh garden spot, Mellon Square. VVhat native Pittsburgher does not marvel at the wide marble stairs and the glimmering fountains illumi- nated at night? Men such as Professors Lewis Bradley and James A. Keeler, suc- cesses in the field of science, pioneered t-he building and the maintenance of Allegheny Observatory. The most recent city builder is Dr. Jonas Salk. creator of a poli-o vaccine. ln Pittsburgh have originated the rays of hope that this crippling disease may be thwarted all over the nation. Thus, success may build the mang but a truly successful man can build a city, as the great progress of Pittsburgh indicates. 9

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Dedication It is with sincerest gratitude that we, the January and june classes of 1958, dedicate this yearbook to Mr. James D. Mcfflymonds. His earnest supervision has led us through the gateway to learning-toward a richer, fuller maturity. Perhaps we shall remember him hest not as a supervisor, but as a dear friend. Now that he is leaving Allderdice, we wish him a future of happiness. ll