Berwick High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Berwick, PA)

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Our Principal's Message TO THE CLASS OF 1950 Greetlngs and congratulatlons to the Class of 1950 upon the attalnment of your xmmedlate goal that of obtamlng a hlgh school educatxon You have reached one of the mxlestones m your l1fe You have obtamed your basxc and fundamental educatlon the major tool wlth whxch you will carve your future Your formal scholastlc educatlon may not q1ve you lmmedlate results but lt w1ll QIVC you more advantaqeous results ln future years These past years have been years of mstructlon and trammg from whlch you may take wxth you a certam store of facts However the really 1mportant factor of these years has been the cultlvatlon and development of those character elements whxch w1ll make you useful conscxentlous thxnklnq c1t1zens of a democracy We trust that the sum total of your educatxonal experlences over the past years w1ll be a dehnlte help to each one of you 1n playlnq your part m the destxnles of tomorrow 'JLS-'S. 6 l , . , . 1 K , 1 . + 1 V ' l ' 1 . , A

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Our Superinfendenfs Message TO THE SENIORS Yes you are now semors and have reached the tlme when you are to be graduated from your high school Many are the ll'ldlVldU3lS and orgamzatxons concerned about your present and future welfare Many have wxshed you good luck happmess success and the other elements of a lxfe that IS good ln the slght of God and man I am but one of your well wxshers and there IS lxttle that I can say that w1ll add to thexr k1ndly expressxons However xt IS only natural for me to hope that the measure of your reahzatxon of these wlshes may be greatly mcreased because you have been graduated from Berwlck Hlgh School Looking back on school days one can reahze that more could have been accomphshed and more could have been gaxned Llttle txme elapses before one becomes convlnced that hugh school days make up the best and happxest years of lxfe It does not follow that they have been wa ted and fruxtless years because they have been happy years Knowledge and skxlls have been ga1ned whereby you can lxve more purposefully serve your fellowmen more effectxvely and enjoy a rxcher and more abundant hfe But also I hope that as you have worked and played together you have acqunred a greater respect for the other fellow s personallty hrs way of llfe hxs dreams and ambltxons hrs rlght to succeed and hxs rlght to dlffer with you ln short I hope you have learned to llke hum I hope hrgh school has made you more capable of gratltude gratltude to your parents and the others of your communlty who have paxd the bull gratxtude to the men and women whose hves have been consumed preservmg for you th1.s land of freedom and opportunxty I hope that falrness means more to you because of the xnfluence of hxgh school and that you w1ll be able to pass judgment based on careful thlnkmg rather than on emotxon and preludxce Last of all I hope that you have become able to see the brxght not lust the dark slde of l1fe and that you may face hfe confidently because of fanth nn God 'fri' 5 , - , , , , . . , . . , - ' h , , . , . I

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Class Advisers THE MEMBERS of the Class of 1950 express their sincere appreciation for the cheerful guidance, helpfulness, and understanding given them by their class advisers. As a token of their gratitude they dedicate this 1950 yearbook to them Mr Carl M Davis and Miss Florence Shaffer Dedication MR CARL M DAVIS MISS FLORENCE SHAFFER 7 ,-. A f 1 :qi I