Beaver Falls High School - Tiger Yearbook (Beaver Falls, PA)

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For Don Our human sense Of human events Tells us that Railing are places For finding each other or Greeting friends or Saying goodbye. Each day. Each student and Each faculty member Touches our railings Innumerable times squared To create a kind of Kinetic equation of force That helps to bind us together. On this morning. We wrap our fingers tightly Around the brown pipe Of the railing And wait And hope. But its usually comforting parallels Are cold From the final subtraction Of life. He stood each day On the second or third floor levels On the north side of the commons At his spots on the railings. Sometimes he had camera in hand. Sometimes, pointing, with a student Or fellow teacher at his side. He would angle for focus. Calculate distances. And set exposures To stop us ail At our best. In our happiest moments. His pictures, Like his life, Were used To dedicate the railing He shared Each day With us. And what do we do now about Unfinished equations and Undeveloped film and The touch Of friendly hands Now missing at the railing? We can be angry with our own mortality. We are. We can be hurt by the unfair timing of Death We are We can be grief-stricken over loss. We are. We can remember life. We do. Our human sense Of human events Tells us that Railings are places For greeting friends or Saying goodbye or Finding each other. To many of us here at B.F.H.S., Mr. Donald J. Hicks will always be remembered as an understanding friend and a very fine teacher, who constantly expressed a genuine interest and concern for all his students. In addition to teaching for twenty-eight years, Mr. Hicks spent many long hours as the Tiger Yearbook Advisor, as the Tiger Yearbook Photography Advisor, and as the treasurer of the Beaver Falls Teachers' Credit Union. Year after year, he devoted so much of his time outside of the classroom to taking pictures of so many different school activities. To those of us who have called him friend and teacher, we shall truly miss his concern, his courage, his humor, his help, and especially, his guidance. From Bill Kness May 14. 1979

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