Canonsburg High School - Canon Log Yearbook (Canonsburg, PA)

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M. L. Taggart Assistant Principal To get the gold in them thar hills, the Forty-Niners' of a century ago needed little material equipment except a pick, a pan, and a grubstake, but they did need a spirit of per- sistence, perseverance, patience, determination, and a strong physique to attain their quest. Out of the experience of the Forty-Nin- ers and the pioneers of other eras of our national history, we have forged an American Character that is optimistic, experimental, prac- tical, intelligent, mature, democratic, and in- dividualistic. The Nineteen Forty-Niners find their ma- terial equipment vastly changed. They have traded their Conestogas for Diesels and the pick and pan for automatic machines and scientific laboratories. The qualities of spirit, however, that took the Eighteen Forty-Ninersu across the plains will be the same qualities that will put the Nineteen Forty-Niners out in the lead in building the better America of the future. The great question is not what age you live in, but what perfection you achieve under the circum- stances. Robert J. 0'Conne!l Principal To many of the Forty-Ninersn the quest for gold was only an excuse for the pursuit of adventure. The group included farmers, labor- ers, gamblers, business men, some tradesmen even a few doctors and lawyers. What they all had in common was the desire for adventure. There were few conservatives among them. They were willing to risk everything to commit themselves to a course of action from which they could not turn back. Thev were all ener- getic and unafraid of the hardships that lay cn the other side of the Sierra Nevadas. It is this daring do spirit that we admire in the Forty- Ninersf' The theme, Forty-Ninersf' is appropri- ate for this yearbook only to the extent to which the bold adventurous spirit of those illustrious seekers after gold is exemplified in present willingness to sacrifice comfort and pleasures in order to attain a future worth- while goal. -11-