Athens Area High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, PA)

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CLASS OF 1953: This year completed fifty years of achievement for the Ingersoll Rand Company, the mainstay in the economic life of our valley. Your yearbook staff has, very appropriately, used this notable event as its theme and has developed a parallel between the industry and high school education. May we develop a parallel beyond your graduation? We believe that the same basic elements which are necessary to produce notable success in an industry are also essential to make a life notably successful. I will list a few. First, an industry and a life must be able to recognize an essential need of humanity and plan to contribute to that need if lasting success is to crown their efforts. Secondly, they must build up confidence in their product by never offering shoddy and low grade workmanship. When the public is led to expect much from any person or industry by a glowing build up only to be duped by receiving something cheap or inferior, its confidence is destroyed and any advantage gained through such deceit can only be temporary at best. Thirdly, they must not be satisfied with things as they are but ever study to keep abreast of the times and to meet the ever changing needs of humanity with new and improved procedures. The education of an industry or an individual can never be considered as complete. Remember the ancient words of wisdom, This, too, shall change. Only by constant study and alertness can the successful crest of the waves of change be ridden and the trough of oblivion be avoided. Fourthly, immediate profits must not be the goal. Often the worthwhile profits are much enhanced by having been deferred until real value has been established and the services can be more highly appreciated. Believe with all your heart in what you are doing or don't do it. If the value to humanity is there, the appropriate reward will follow in due time. Other parallels might be drawn. We believe this will suffice for the present occasion. Our wishes for your continued success in the ways that are lasting are very sincere. MR. IRVING HAZARD High School Principal MR. RALPH HOPKINS 10

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TO THE SENIORS OF 1953: Congratulations to you for dedicating our 1953 Athenian to our largest production plant, the Ingersoll-Rand. We are fortunate in having an industry the size and character of the Athens Plant in our town. Here many of our graduates find opportunities for success in their life's work. This year, Ingersoll-Rand commemorates fifty years of progress. Similarly, our Athenian marks one hundred and twelve years of production. Our senior high curriculum includes preparation in the fundamentals to meet the needs of this great plant. At Athens High School, we promote and develop in our students the desire for exactness through problems in mathematics, science and history. We rate as highest among us, the mind that is creative -- that sees possibilities unseen by others; that ventures confidently and effectively into the hitherto unknown. We allow for individual differences by exploration and guidance in giving each individual the opportunity to develop his skills and aptitudes according to his capacity. Education for worthwhile citizenship is a major purpose at Athens High School. The degree to which our students are willing to seek the mastery of knowledge, the acquisition of attitudes, the development of good habits, and the desire to assume responsibility and to cooperate will help determine their way of life for the future. Many jobs at Ingersoll call for exactness and precision. Creativeness and critical judgment have no doubt helped a great deal in the progress made in the last fifty years. Men willing to assume their share of responsibility and men who are willing to cooperate are contributors in this trail of progress. Certainly no industrial progress is possible without individual initiative. You, the seniors who graduate this year, have had these valuable experiences and opportunities during your school life. In the long run, you will profit by your own individual contributions which you make to industry and society. You have in your possession the fundamentals and pre-requisites for living in the future. You must use them and think, plan, and grow, so that the investment which your community has in you will benefit both you and your community. 9 MR. RICHARD BARTHOLOMEW Supervising Principal

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Mrs. Helen Southee, Secretary to Mr. Hazard; Mrs. Celia Arnold, Secretary to Mr. Bartholomew. Our school has its own accounting department. The work of this department is in the capable hands of Mrs. Southee, Mr. Hazard's secretary, and Mrs. Arnold, Mr. Bartholomew's secretary. The accounting department of Athens High resembles the payroll department of the Ingersoll Rand --they both make a definite contribution to the efficient operation of the industry . ll