Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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fj. J. cMauffi, AiAMta+it P Unclf2cd To the Graduates of 1943: We are proud of you, we envy you, and we congratulate you in your vigorous young manhood and womanhood, full of energy, ambition, and vision. We know that you are in a strategic position to be strafed” with the you-are-out-in-the-worid-now” advice, leaving you with the impression that you arc to be transported to some new and strange universe. The sun will rise and set on June 11, 1943, as it did on the day you were born. You will meet new problems tomorrow as you have been doing in all your tomorrows. We hope you will not need to fear your tomorrows so much as you do your yesterdays. The biggest world you have to continue in and control is the world within yourself. Whether, in the future, you are commissioned officer or private, you are the supreme commander of your own trend of thought and the protector of the good name your father and mother have given you. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benedict Arnold were once merely names. These three men lived on the same earth and under somewhat similar conditions; but the first two names are now synonyms of all things that are great and noble, and the last a symbol of disgrace. What price tags are you attaching to the finest name you have ever seen—your own name? J. T. HOGG Twenty-four

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To the Graduates of 1943: You are leaving high school to face no easy task, for the demands of the days to come are exacting indeed. Many of your number are already in military service. Each contingent of inductees departing for the training centers will include others of your classmates. The girls and boys, unable to join the armed forces, will receive an urgent call to fill up the ranks of the toiling millions on the production lines. America is depending upon each one of you to do his or her part as a loyal and devoted citizen. We of the faculty are confident that you will prove worthy. We believe that you will stand the test of the severe experiences to which youth is being subjected. In many respects we envy you the opportunities to be of service; to achieve; and to bring honor to your home, to your school, to your community, and to yourselves. We see in you our second chance in life. We congratulate you upon the completion of your secondary school training. Our best wishes go with you into the uncertainties and the difficulties of the days that lie ahead. JOHN D. ANDERSON

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A PeeJz into the OjJjiced. Miss Mortland Dr. Wiley’s Quartette checks Miss Petsinger, Miss Moore, Miss McGuire, Mrs. Hartung the absentees Twenty-five