Curwensville Area High School - Echo Yearbook (Curwensville, PA)

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6 THE ECHO DEDICATIO The Senior Class of 1927 hereby dedicate this Echo to Our Faculty, who have been very helpful to us. MR. FOREMAN came to us from Osceola High School. He has been very helpful to us in our Science. He also acted as our faculty advisor. MISS HIPPS who has been with us three years has proven very efficient. She takes care of our Literary matters and also Class Plays. The High School is very grateful to her for its literary success. MISS LEIB, This is Miss Leib's first year with us and she has proven a success. She teaches Latin and French. MR. MCCREIGHT is our Coach and Mathematic teacher. He has raised the Athletic standard and has helped Curwensville gain a name in Athletics. MR. ROBISON has been very helpful to us. Although this is his first year with us, he has proven a very successful teacher. He teaches History and Mathematics. MR. NORRIS, Our Principal and Advisor, has been very rnuch appreciated by all. He has done much for the advancement of our schools. He has helped many discouraged students. AMONG THE NOBILITY OF MANKIND And what of teaching? Ah, there you have the worst paid, and the best rewarded, of all the vocations. Dare not to enter it unless you love it. For the vast majority of men and women it has no promise of wealth or fame but they to whom it is dear for its own sake are among the nobility of mankind. I sing the praise of the unknown teacher. Great generals win campaigns but it is the un- known soldier that wins the war. Famous educators plan new systems of pedagogy, but it is the unknown teacher who delivers and guides the young. He lives in obscurity and contends with hardship. For him no trumpets blare, no chariots wait, no golden deco- rations are decreed. He keeps the watch along the borders of darkness and makes the attack on trenches of ignorance and folly. Patient in his daily duty, he strives to conquer the evil powers which are the enemies of youth. He awakens sleeping spirits. He quickens the indolent, encourages the eager, and steadies the unstable. He communicates his own joy in learning and shares with boys and girls the best treasures of his mind. He lights many candles which, in later years, will shine back to cheer him. This is his reward. Knowledge may be gained from books, but the love of knowledge is trans- mitted only by personal contact. No one has deserved better of the republic than the unknown teacher. No one is more worthy to be enrolled in a demo- cratic aristocracy, 'king of himself and servant of mankind'. 4fDr. Henry Van Dyke, noted author and Presbyterian minister, professor of English Liter- ature at Princeton University, 1900 to 1923, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg, l9l3 to l9l7.

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THE ECHO 5 DEAR SENIORS:H When talking about anybody in his absence, I would suggest that you keep in mind the following beautiful poem by James Whitcomb Riley :- ULET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID When over the fair fame of friend or foe The shadow of disgrace shall fallg instead Of words of blame, or proof of thus and so, Let something good be said. Forget not that no fellow-being yet May fall so low but love may lift his head: Even the cheek of shame with tears are wet, If something good be said. No generous heart may vainly turn aside In ways of sympathy: no soul so dead But may awaken strong and glorified, If something good be said. And so I charge ye, by the thorny crown, And by the cross on which the Savior bled, And by your own souI's hope of fair renown, Let something good be said I cannot too much impress upon your mind that Iabor is the condition which God has imposed on us in every station of lifeg there is nothing worth having that can be had without it. As for knowledge, it can no more be planted in the hu- man rdind without labor than a Held of wheat can be produced without the pre- vious use of the plow. If we neglect our spring, our summer will be useless and contemptible, our harvest will be chaff and the winter of our old age unrespected and desolate.-fSir Walter Scott., Do not, then, stand idly waiting For some greater work to dog Fortune is a lazy goddess, She will never come to you. G0 and toil in any vineyard, Do not fear to do or dare, If you want a held of labor, You can find it anywhere. -CSeIected.D Yours sincerely, Grant Norris, Supervising Principal.

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THE ECHO 7 HONEST EFFORT This is an age when achievement is emphasized in every walk of life. Every religious movement, social condition, and economic problem is measured in the terms of success. We are driven to accomplish our desire by a great force of nervous energy. In our great desire to achieve, to attain success, how many of us hesitate long enough to take a personal inventory of the quality of our labor? In our study and preparation and in the examinations we succeed in pass- ing, do we put forth all that we are actually capable, our honest effort? Does the man at his labor, the executive in his office, the clergy in his pulpit, the professional man in his practice, and the teachers in the school room give of themselves and their time, the full measure of application and service that measures up to the height of honest effort? Mere success is temporary. True achievement is everlasting. Honorable accomplishment is the reward that comes with conscious discharge of duty. There is no short cut on the road to success. There are barriers to pass over, obstacles to overcome and temptations to guard against. If we will but attach serious importance to the need of being in earnest and constantly strive to attain our goal through honest effort, there lies our greatest glory. Frequently, to succeed is to fail and to fail succeed. For in the final analysis, honor and glory go not to the victor, but are achieved by the ones who put forth their honest effort. Too often we hear that the measure of a man to-day is the success he attains, not the effort he puts forth. But we need only to examine the career of any prominent man or woman to see that his prominence rests on a solid foundation of honest effort. There can be no real success without such effort: there can be no real failure with it. Honesty without effort results only in futile dreaming. Effort without honesty leads inevitably to disaster. Olga Errigo MODERN FICTION The success of a book is often determined by its sale in a department store. If it is a good seller, it is considered a good book. The people have a strong ap- petite for fadism. A novel to be successful must bear the stamp of society rather than the approval of the critic. If a noted society matron likes a certain novel, whatever its qualities may be, the people in turn consider the novel good and just what they should read. The people of today, see much of the sordid side of life in their walking through the streets, the dust and grime is very prominent. The life of the slums is known to most people. Then the people have to be shocked by their reading to be amused. The people don't care to have their reading matter true or real, in fact realism was never a fad. Truth has never been fashionable. No society takes up phil- osophy as an amusement. A story may become a fad, if it is shocking enough, if it has in it the thrill of delicious wickedness. Such novels have their time for the present but they cannot live. Fiction is a necessary element of modern education in our country. A novel is an intellectual luxury and only the best should be given credit. Of the making of books, there is no end. -Era Cometta