Burgard Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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WILLIAM B. KAMPRATH

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To The Gracfuates of IQ54: As l write my annual message to you, tlie Burgarnl seniors, l am tliinleing tliat your last ancl tinal seniester is lneginning toclay tlzelimruary l, 19510 ancl tliat your gracluation is only twenty weelzs away. Tlie tour years at tliis scliool l1ave laeen a quiclz ancl tleeting interlucle in your lives anal you soon will lie taleing your places as inen ancl aclults witli otlier tormer Burgarcl seniors anal gracluates in tl1e worle ot tlie worlcl. Mr. Heinilze lias just sliown me tlae last tliree rosters ot tlie Buttalo Cluln ot Printing House Crattsmen, an organization ot printing torenien ancl executives. It is most pleasing to note 26 names ot Burgarzi, gracluates wl1o are active memlaers, 10 on tlie Boarct ot Managers ancl 4 as otticers. Tlie same is true ot memlnersliips in tlie Typograpliical ancl Pressmenys Unions anal tlie Printing lnclustries Association ot Western New Yorle. Tliese young men trom our Printing ancl Litliograpliy Department are wgoing placesn in tlieir cliosen inclustry, wliicli is tlie sixtli largest in Buttalo. Tlie list ot printers lezi. ine to investigate otlier areas in Wliicli Burgarcl gracluates tunction, ancl tlie recorcl all along tlie line is most impressive. For instance, tlae Buttalo Auto Dealers Association, tlie Garage lN'len's Group, tlae Auto Worl2er's Union, ancl tl1e Truclz ancl Bus Nlaintenance Qrgaiiization liave Burgarcl graduates as active nieinlners ancl otticers. Tlie intluence ot your tormer classmates is ettective in a wicle scope ot civic, eclucational, political, inclustrial anal pulnlic enterprises, ancl it is most creclitalole tluat tlie alailities ancl talents ot Burgarcl laoys are put to sucli goocl use. Some ot our lacls are active in tlie Aero Clula ot Buttalo, tlue Private Flyers ancl Cwners Clula, tlie Junior Claamlner ot Commerce, tlue Pliilliarmonic Q1'cl1estra Society, tlie Leaclersluip Groups in tl1e Buttalo Council ot Boy Scouts ancl tlie Y. M. C. A. , tlie Community Cliest, tlie Reel Cross Campaigns ancl many otliers. A great numlier ot our gracluates liave laecome a power tor goocl in tlieir cliurclies, ancl in tlie activities ot tlieir cliurcla organizations. Tliis is as it slioulcl loe. Wlien l recall tlie Vocational Aclvisory Committees ot tlie Boarcl ot Eclucation, l am impresseml witli tlie numloer ot vocational gracluates wlio serve tlieir city in tlae cause ot eclucation. It is a time ancl wl1olesome traclition, and to you lnoys wlio go tortli from tliis scliool in '54, l suggest ancl commencl tlie iclea ot engaging in similar activities in aciclition to tlie immefiiate cluties ot your anct tlie worlz ot your own liouseliolcl. Eaclu ot you can lae an intluence tor great gooct in our city. Best WIiSll9S tor Success trom your Principal, WW

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7.-W m Dear Graduates ofgurgar : You are the hoicters ot a prouct titie. Your predecessors, hy their ctecorum and accomplishments whiie stuctents, and their achievements as memhers ot an actuit society, have hequeathemi to you that which must maize you ever conscious ot your responsihiiities. If your vocational and cutturai iznowiectge gainect over tour years is your only attainment as you step into a mature woriei. then we, your instructors have taiieci in our johs. We sought to enlighten you with the ethics ot gooct citizenship, high niorai stanctarcts, respect tor the rights ot others, and iove ot country. You may recaii some ot the many instances when I spoize in the asseinhiy on the suhject ot npricten. I not mean hy pricle the contenipuous arrogance towarct the iess tortunate, or a iotty retusai to pertorm some act which one might consicter heneath an assumect station in hte, hut priate as a heiiet in the worthiness ot one's tamiiy, one's worie, one's triencts, anct one's community, iocai or worict. Nations have ciecayect anct are torgotten hecause iosing their prictep they hecome iiize the hopeiessiy without the determination to survive. These are the intangihies that I want you to taize with you as you ieave what were to me the tour happiest years ot my iite - - - niy high Assistant Principal SCi'1001 C13.yS.