Carson Long Military Institute - Carsonian Yearbook (New Bloomfield, PA)

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CARSON LONG INSTITUTE D.AVlD L. joNEs j0nCSy l i 5 14-14 Street Franklin, Pennsylvania Distinguished Cadet lsr Platoon, Company A Rifle Team, '47 ncaa Club, 947 Cheer Leader, '47 Intramural Softball, '47 Intramural Volleyball, '47 Intramural Ping Pong, '47 O MATTER what may be one's na-tionality, sex, age, philosophy, or religion everyone wishes ei-ther to remain happy or to become happy. One defini-tion of happiness might be that the happiest person in the world is the person who -thinks the most interesting thoughts. This places happiness where it belongs-within and not without. There are many misconceptions of happiness. One of the most common is that money makes happiness. T-his is false. Money may be a help- ing factor, but in any case much money is not the answer. Paradoxically some men may have sold -their happiness but no one was ever able to buy it. Another wrong idea is -that pleasure is synonymous with happiness. This also is false. You can wear yourself ragged in pursuit of pleasure in all -the bright spots of the world and still wake up in dull despair. Another theory is that fame brings happiness. This is l i oppineff very wrong. Take, for example, the marital mixups of our movie stars, anvd then check off fame as a factor in happiness. Finally, some people think -that happiness is found by restlessly running up and down the world. This is again wrong. We carry it with us-or we don't have it. It is often said, Make the most of your years in school. They will he the happiest of your life. If this were -true, nothing would be more tragic than the picture of school boys and young girls, faced with fifty years of decay and of descent into ever darkening days. If we want happiness, we had better look for it where it is and not where we think it ou ht to be or wish it were. XVe are all looking or it-but it is only available on its own terms, not ours. Our only inalienable right to happiness is the right to pursue it.

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THE CARSONIAN OF 1947 i l l wget Itwf Howano G. HANSEN HH!! iz: Roxen Road Rockville Centre, Long Island Acting First Lieutenant Drum Major jay Vee Football, '44 jay Vee Basketball, ,44 Varsity Football, '45-'46-,47 Varsity Basketball, '45-'46-'47 Varsity Baseball, '44-'45-'46-'47 Varsity Tennis, '45-'46-'47 Co-Captain, Varsity Football, '47 Co-Captain, Varsity Basketball, '46-'47 u Co-Captain, Tennis, '46-'47 Intramural Volleyball, '44-,45- '46-'47 l Intramural Ping Pong, '44-'45- '46-'47 C Club, '44-'45-'46-'47 President of C Club, 147 Twin County All Star Basket- ball Team, 46-'47 Roman Leader, '45-'46 Secretary of Freshmen Class Secretary of Sophomore Class V ice President of junior Class Drum Corps, '44-'45-'46-'47 Head Drummer, '46 Drum Major, '46-'47 Old Guard Senate, '47 House of Representatives, '46- '47 Vice President of House of Representatives, '47 Sergeant at Arms of Senate, ,47 Secretary of junior Literary Society, ,44 Dance Committee, ,47 Ski Patrol, ,47 Assistant B Company Com- mander, '47 Blue Ribbon Squad, '44 Glee Club, '44-'45-'46-'47 Athletic Medal, '46 Officer Candidate Class No. xo T'S over now. lt's done. Forget it. Don't forever be raking it up, 'thinking it over, wishing you had done dif- ferently. Forget it. What's done is done. I-t's down in the bottomless pit of the past, let it rest. Look ahead not behind. Think of to- morrow, not yesterday. You can make some- thing of tomorrow, yesterday is beyond recall. Yesterday's as -dead as a door-nail, as lifeless as a brick, as hopeless and changeless as wood. Turn away from it. Tomorrow's alive, filled with beauty, and is bulging with power. Turn to it. Forget-ting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before us is the key passage to success. For the future is everything that life needs. A lot of you probably have had some bad experiences in the past. Maybe these bad ex- periences occurred in your high school class- room, maybe on the athletic Field, or at home. All -these incidents keep coming back to you and leave nothing but worry and confusion. It was a wise man who said, Never cry over spilt milk. Forget it, boy. You have brought tears to the eyes of her who brought you into this world and whose love for you is greater than any other thing in heaven or on earth. But she will think of it no more if you will only come back, put your face upon her knees, and let her love enfold you. A mother's love is e-ternity's wildest, deepest sea, and everything you have done wrong will be drowned in it. Forget it, everybody. Every rising sun brings a new chance to all the sons and daughters of men. Every swelling moon means a new month of opportunity. Every star is a star of hope. Forget it. Face front, you!

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THE CARSONIAN OF 1947 l REGINALD J. KENNEDY Reggie 7802 7th Avenue Brooklyn, New York Acting Corporal Ist Platoon, Company B Honor Roll, ,46-'47 Track, ,46-,47 Intramural Basketball, '46-'47 Intramural Volleyball, '46-'47 Intramural Pin Pong, ,46-,47 Intramural Sogball, '46-'47 Dramatics, '46 Decorating Committee, '47 Rifle Team, '47 r.Eafwa1'a3 enner... Difconererof Vaccination H +1 N ALMOST every state today, the law requires' every child entering into a public school to be vaccinated. Yet it was not long ago that vaccinia, commonly known as small-pox, was striking down many helpless peofple and domestic animals. Today we have no ear from this eruptive disease thanks to a 'hard-working English physician named Ed- ward jenner. Born the son of a clergyman at Gloucester- shire, England, in the middle part of the eight- eenth century, he began the study of medicine under the supervision of a prominent surgeon. In 1770 he moved to London where he studied ornithology and investigated the causes of rhue- matic infiamations of the heart. He married in 1778 an-d obtained the Doctor of Medicine de- gree from Saint Andrews in 1792. Meanwhile the discovery of vaccination ma- tured slowly in his mind. He first investigated this subject in 1775, and, within live years, -he had satisfied himself that cow-pox really in- cluded -two different forms of disease, only one of which protected against small-pox and that many of the failures could thus be explained. He further ascertained that the -true cow-pox only protected w'hen communicated at a par- ticular stage of the disease. At the same -time he conclufded that the grease of 'horses is the same disease as cow-pox, each being modified by the organism in which it develops. He tirst tested his theory on May 14, 1796, when he was able to innoculate an eight-year old boy with matter from the vesicles of a milkmaid. In the following july the boy was innocula-ted for the small-pox. The disease did not follow. In 1798 he published his Inquiry Into the Cause and Effects of the Variolae Vacrinae, announc- ing his discovery to the world. After retiring from public life, he died quietly on january 24, 1823, leaving behind him a bril- liant record-one which the world will never forget.