Bedford High School - Echo Yearbook (Bedford, PA)

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CLASS AETI ITIES young especially-should take their stand on this tower. Look, listen, learn, whereyou go, wherever you tarry. Something is always transpiring to reward your attention. Let your eyes and ears he always open, and you will often observe, in the slightest incidents, ma- terials of advantage and means of personal improve- ment. Rely not upon others, but let there be in your own bosom a calm, deep, decided, and all-pervading principle. Look first, midst, and last to God to aid you in the great task before you, and then plant your foot on the right. Let others live as they please- tainted by low tastes, debasing passions, a moral putrefaction. Be you the salt of the earth, incorrupt IUNIOR CLASS OFFICEHS LEFT-MARY CESSNA, Secretary MIDDLE-BILL THOMAS, Treasurer RIGHT-CLARENCE DIEHL, President ' in your deeds, in your inmost thoughts and feelings. Nay ay -ang' ,1- more, incorruptible, like virtue itself, your manners blame- less, your views of duty, not narrow, false, and destructive, but a saver of life to all around you. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with the salt of truth, honor, manliness, and benevolence. Wait not for the lash of guilt to scourge you to the path of God and heaven. Be of the prudent who foresee the evil and hide from it, and not of the simple, who pass on and are punished. Life, to youth, is a fairy tale iust opened, to old age, a tale read through, ending in death. Be wise in time, that you may be happy in eternity. On the opposite page we see a boy and ci girl, each standing watch, on the look-out for enemy planes, in the center is a scene from the Iunior-Senior Promg on this page to the left at top, we see the popular president ot the senior class, Donald Koontz, the middle picture was snapped af one of the many school dances, at bottom we see the Cheei Leaders in full action. -2-Q.

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SE IUH5 Al ll JUNIUHS LEAD I ' SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS LEFT-EDDIE CLARK, Treasurer MIDDLE-RETA MAE MILLER, Secretary RIGHT-DONALD KOONTZ, President May 24, 1944, will be like the caboose and the engine of a train for the seniors. lt's the beginning and the end, it's the start of a new life, and the end- ing of an old chapter. Every youth should form, at the outset of his ca- reer, the solemn purpose to make the most and the best of the powers which God has given him, and to turn to the best possible account every outward ad- vantage within his reach. This purpose must carry with it the assent of the reason, the approval of the con- science, the sober judgment of the intellect. lt should then embody within itself whatever is vehement in desire, inspiring in hope, thrilling in enthusiasm and intense in desperate resolve. Such a plan of life will save him from many a damaging contest with tempta- tion. It will regulate his sports and recreations. lt will go with him by day to trample under foot the al- lurements of pleasure. lt will hold his eyes waking as he toils by the evening lamp. lt will watch over his slumbers to iog him at the appointed hour, and sum- mon him to the cheerful duties of his chosen pursuit. Those who labor and study under the inspiration of such a purpose, will soon soar out of sight of those who barely allow themselves to be carried along by the momentum of the machinery to which they are attached. Many pass through life without even a conscious- ness of where they are, and what they are doing. They gaze on whatever lies directly before them, in fond amusement lost. Human life is a watchtower. lt is the clear purpose of God that everyone-the

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SE IUH5 4 ,Q Wai' X ROW ONE, Left to Right4Anna Mae lmler, Hazel Huntsman, Kathleen Pennel, Ruth Rose, Anna Seifert, Betty Zeigler, Dorothy McCreary, Louise Foreman, Lily Moses, Lorene Ickes, Rebecca Feight. ROW TWO-Eunice Wertz, Pauline Nave, Mary Loretta lckes, Mary Crist, Rose Marie Long, Robert Barnes, Ioseph Claar, Robert Wolfe, Homer Rose, Ronald Claycornb, Iames Roland. ROW THREE-Virginia Beegle, Mary Smith, Rebecca Shatter, Elva Miller, Dorothy Wambaugh, Charles Snelson, Iohn Caldwell, Peter Hinton, Ceber Ake, Floyd Clark. ROW FOUR-Harold Rose, Melvin Kegg, Lloyd Rose, William Fickes, Kathryn Davis, Edward England, Robert Whysong, Boyd lckes, Alfred Crilley, Arnold Zembower. ROW FIVE-Iames Davis, Edward Iudy, Clarence Diehl, Louis Simon, Ioseph Koontz, Thomas Williams, William Anderson, Eugene Perdew, Iohn Goad. ROW SIX-David Diehl, Robert Gardner, Anson lckes, William Berkheimer, Melvin lmler, George Berkheimer. -2g,-