Conyngham Centralia Joint High School - Iris Yearbook (Aristes, PA)

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A Farewell Message To The Class of I93O In these sweet June days, The teacher and scholar trust Their parting feet to separate ways. Thus has Whittier beautifully expressed the time of parting, when graduates must leave their Alma Mater and instructors and enter into the school of life. Your ways will go in different directions-your paths will sever. But advance to meet the new life with courage, determination and honesty in the knowledge that you have our interest and friendship with you always. Step bravely and boldly into life's school with the earnest resolve to hold fast to that which is good, and to make the world a better and happier place because of your existence. In this way you can make the most of your opportunities and meet the de- mand of your responsibilities. Each of you has shown determination, tenacity, courage and hon- esty. Each has proven himself worthy of trust. Continue as you have begun and the future will take care of itself. To begin well is the keynote of successg to set forth with a firm foundation, to possess a strong determination to succeed fairly are the only ways to reach the pinnacle of fame. As you pass from these portals, I hope you will bear treasures to the Waiting populace. Treasures of the intellect, riches of personality, jewels of wit and a golden heart-those are but a few of the qualities I wish you to possess. Resolve to keep your ideals lofty and unsullied so that we can point with pride to you. You have done well and I am proud of youg you are going to do even better and I am prouder yet of that. As I leave you on the heights to which your hopes and aims have elevated you, my thoughts surround you with a halo of faith and encouragement. I bid you farewell with the assurance that I believe in you, and am sending you forth into life with my deep and sincere blessing, I -JOHN J. REILLEY

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School Spirit School spirit is an intangible thing, something to be cherished and discussed by idealists, and not materialists. It is an indefinable some- thing which can not be clearly portrayed by word or pen, yet whose presence can be felt in whatever atmosphere it pervades. It is a feel- ing, an inner reaction to some outward stimulus known commonly as one's school, which compels the affected one to cry out to the world his feelings and his loyalty to his Alma Mater. It is, in its true meaning, voluntary and whole-hearted support of onels school at all times-I repeat, at all times. It is not a spirit to be had when your school is prosperous and athletically victorious, but it is one to be cherished when your team is sent down to defeat. It is not the spirit of the man who says They lost, when referring to a re- cent defeat of his school's basket-ball team, but it is the spirit of him who proudly says We lost. It is not the guiding star of a man for should I say man ?J who knocks his school every time the opportun- ity presents itself, but it is the backbone of him who upholds its name and reputation, not only in word but in deed, when criticisms of a de- structive nature is abroad. I am, perhaps, an idealist-no doubt I am, but I believe in a hap- py medium in the matter of schools and school spirit. There should come always into the mind and heart of every student an unknown and unconscious thrill when he realizes that he is an integral part of the life of his school. Materialistic stimuli are not necessary to enkindle this flame of patriotism-materialistic stimuli such as, athletics, extra- curricula activities, or other such things-suffice it to say that they but add to the blaze already ignited by the realization of the meaning and duty of a real high school student. Therefore, the student deserves for himself a code of school mor- als, a sort of patriotic ethics, by which he may map out his actions and so guide himself for his whole school career. The fact clearly brought to him by a little serious thought, that he is an indispensable unit of his school, will enable him to represent his Alma Mater in the best way possible, viz., by being a real gentleman, a sincere scholar, and a fair and square athlete. We all know that the perfect cannot be attained, and yet, by con- stant striving for perfection, we can reach a very creditable state of existence. This is as near as we can get to the ideal-this is what we want-and school spirit is the only means by which we can attain it. ' -JosEPH LINETTY