Ambridge Area High School - Bridger Yearbook (Ambridge, PA)

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 HE two most challenging tasks which our schools face today are to promote a higher JL level of culture and to prepare boys and girls for an intelligent participation in the world of tomorrow. In the Ambridge High School these two objectives are attained through a modern curriculum of academic, commercial, and vocational courses and a comprehensive program of extracurricular activities. Through your yearbook you provide an invaluable and authentic record of the life of the school which, I am sure, will increase in meaning and value to each of you as the years go by. May your memory of the Ambridge High School be a pleasant one and may the friendships which you have formed be lasting ones. As you are being graduated from the high school, your superintendent extends to each of you his congratulations and a sincere wish for your success.

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DR. JOSEPH M. BENKERT Society’s ultimate goal is a world of peace, goodwill and liberty. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty ; constant study, the price of progress. The formula K = MO, which postulated the enormous power to be derived from nuclear fission, was conceived in the mind of a man conscious of what mankind must pay to achieve the ultimate goal of society. Man must work and study if he wishes to develop or even maintain what he has learned. Individuals either move forward, intellectually exploring new fields and crossing far horizons, or they fall into the trap of indolence and self-satisfaction. Me cannot rest on past achievement and former glory. Peace is an equilibrium. An equilibrium is a system of balanced forces and not the absence of force. The ideals of peace and goodwill were brought to us through sacrifice and crucifixion. The steel framework supporting our democracy is the willingness of free men to pay the price ot peace, goodwill, and liberty by eternal vigilance, constant study, hard work, and self-sacri ficc. DR. JOSEPH M. BENKERT MR. L. TAGGART Primarily, education is based on a knowledge of facts and the ability to use those facts in arriving at conclusions and generalizations. Vision, tolerance, and respect for others regardless of race, creed or color depend upon the acquisition and use of funda mental bodies of facts. Crisis arise in the world only because of the ignorance of fundamental facts and laws. Ambridge High School students have demonstrated they can work together in amicable relationships regardless of race, creed or color. Ambridge High School students have demonstrated that they can face this super-scientific world confidently, know ing there is hard work ahead, but ready, willing, and able to do it. Your assistant principal takes this opportunity to reaffirm his faith in Ambridge High School students and to wish them a successful life in a peaceful world. Nothing is more important to an individual than his job in his endeavor to be socially and civically competent. Let him be out of employment and he cannot function as a good citizen. He con-not meet his obligations, pay his taxes, support his dependents, nor contribute much to the general well-being of his community, state, and nation. Vocational education always insists upon training specifications and standards which will make the individual thoroughly competent, and so contribute to building a higher economic and social standard for the individual and the nation. The entire national structure upon which our standard of living rests, is based upon the skills of our workers-both professional and manipulative. MR. L. TAGGART MR. MICHAEL F. SERENE •MICHAEL F. SERENE