Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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3A2 principafg Weddage MEMBERS of the graduating class of 1946, it is with great personal pride and satisfaction that I extend you greetings on your graduation day. You have earned the commendation well done . I should certainly not try and minimize the part played by you in realizing this stage of your development, however, I would that you should never forget the many efforts and sacrifices of your parents, teachers, and friends, in making this day possible. They too, are witnessing the fulfillment of a dream. Among them are those who stood aside that you might pass. i You, along with thousands of other young people, are ushered into a world the adequate adjustments to which have been made most difficult because of a recent world catastrophe. While the guns have been silenced the world is still not at peace. Reconversion, the inevitable consequence of war, poses a problem the solution to which demands unusual patience, thought, cooperation, and faith, of every good citizen. No prophet or seer can predict the difficulties you will face in your adjustive efforts. The inability to forecast your problems represents a question we are unable to answer. However, man has always had his problems. They constitute the substance out of which progress is born. If you have learned well the lessons we have attempted to teach you here, you will not be dismayed because of the unsettled Conditions and grim forebodings that hover over the world today, rather, you will accept these circumstances as a challenge to your worth and ingenuity. Chart then the course of your life close to the path of industry, truth, and beauty. Progress is theby-product of toil, while want imprisons the soul of the shiftless. Endeavor to understand and apply the techniques of social im- provement. I should say to you, find some time to contemplate the aesthetic side of life. Despite the fact that disorder, disease, and death, are stalking the social order, beauty is there also for the one'who finds it. It is grievous to all of us that our daily associations must of a necessity be seriously modified; yet, this fact represents the culminating achievement of our plan. We do find joy in the knowledge that you are better equipped to meet the issues of tomorrow. Thank God the dawn of your day is bright! Be then, up and doing today; for tomorrow, who knows, there may be no tomorrow. Each of you carry from us the very fond wish that yours will be a rich and noble life. W. D. SCALES, Principal

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5': ????fd v ' '.- uni. , ; ' :1. 1,E;.-.l w ' ,, 7W. ymwegg. 7-Wimv ' '- n 'JLOI on 'GEORGE WESLEY RAINEY A. B., Lincoln University Social Studies MISS MABEL WINIFRED SMITH B. 8., Columbia University M. A., Columbia University Mathematics MRS. ANN ELIZA PLEASANT A. B., Virginia State College English and Social Studies jacuzty CLARENCE CHARLES JOHNSON B. S., Virginia State College . Biology XVILLIAM ALEXANDER MILLER A. B., Howard University M. A., Columbia University French MISS GENEVA E. TAYLOR B. S., Virginia State College Health and Physical Education CHURCHILL E. ROBINSON B. S., Hampton Institute Cabinet Making