Bloomsburg High School - Memorabilia Yearbook (Bloomsburg, PA)

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j i ff TO THE CLASS OF 1932: Four years have passed since I met with you as a ninth grade. It seems a long time but, in reality how short it has been! Now, however, you stand at the entrance of a new and different life. Some of you will continue in institutions of higher learning, some will enter positions in industry, while others will follow various callings and professions. Whichever way you choose to go, it is my earnest hope that the future will be kind to you, that you will use some of the many principles you have been taught to help you attain your ambitions, and that your school will he proud to say that you are one of her graduates. My relationship with you as your class adviser has been most pleasant. You have worked earnestly and with that great spirit which makes our school outstanding to such an unusual degree. If you show the same degree of cooperation in your future pursuits as you have shown as a class I am sure that each of you will achieve success. May the high aims which belong to our school: scholarship, character, leadership and service, continue to be your ideals. Sincerely, WMM Www 1,1 I . 1 f flfut LAY QQ, V 1 s 5

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DEDICATION YW im' E, the class of nineteen hundred and thirty- two of the Blooinsburg High School, grad- uating in the year of the Bicentennial Cele- bration of the birth of Washington, are proud to dedicate this, our year book, to Mr. Robert Mercer, class adviser and friend. Mr. Mercer graduated from Bloomsburg High School with the class of 1914. He then attended Gettysburg College for two years. Leaving Gettysburg, he enrolled in Carnegie Institute of Technol- ogy where he remained for two years, or until that institution was appropriated for militaristic purposes by the United States Gov- ernment. He returned to Gettysburg and secured his Bachelor of Science degree. Four four years he taught in the Berwick High School. He left this position to become principal of the Millville High School in 1926. The following fall he came to Bloomsburg and has been a member of the high school faculty here for the past five years. Mr. Mercer is a college cooperative teacher. During the three years since Mr. Mercer became our class ad- viser, we have learned to know him as a friend. His active interest in class affairs and his personal interest in its hundred members as individuals has gained the undivided admiration and respect- of his class. We can truly say that no one ever hesitated to talk to him about any of our perplexing problems. In every way, Mr. Mercer was a class adviser and at all times our friend. In selecting the Father of our Country for the theme of our Memorabilia, we sought to create an immortal spirit to guide us through the bewildering problems of life. In dedicating this, the record of the ideals and memories of our youth, to Mr. Mercer, we sought to pay him our highest and most fitting tribute. 4

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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON lFrom the Address of President Hoover before a Joint Session of the Congress, opening the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Birth of George Washington, February 22, 1952.3 It is not necessary for me to attempt a eulogy of George Washington. That has been done by masters of art and poetry during more than a hundred years. To what they have said I attempt to make no addition. The true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. He contributed more to its origins than any other man. The influence of his character and of his accomplishments has contributed to the building of human freedom and ordered liberty, not alone upon this continent but upon all continents. The part which he played in the creation of our institutions has brought daily harvest of happiness to hundreds of millions of humanity. The inspirations from his genius have lifted the vision of succeeding generations. The definitions of those policies in government which he fathered have stood the test of 150 years of strain and stress. X