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

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4 L'ECHiO DEDICATION EQ This book, known as L'ECl'IO, is hereby dedicated to the American Youth by the Senior Class of the Curwensville High School. The Class knows of no better personification of the American Youth than Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. He came into prominence, not with the trappings of royalty nor with a retinue of distinguished ancestors, but as an humble and well trained son, in the morn and liquid dew of youth would go about the ordinary duties of life. He did not announce, months ahead, just what he was about to attempt, believing that He that regardeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the colds shall not reap, but when his plans were completed and conditions thought favorable he proceeded to carry out one of the most daring achievements known to man, and had actually accomplished his ambition, which startled the world, before the world knew there lived such a man as Charles A. Lindbergh. The spirit of life, of achievement, of American citizenship, as represented by Colonel Lindbergh, is hereby extolled and held up as one of the greatest in the annals of the world, and worthy of our meditation, our reverence, and our praise. The stars in their courses seemed to fight with him above the clouds, over the sea and in the midst of the pomp and splendor of the world. Colonel Lindbergh might have failed before reaching France and been lost in the clouds and in the sea forever. He might have failed after reaching France by losing his head, when all about him were losing theirs. But as his heart beat strong and his equilibrium was maintained in his lonely flight, away from the humanities of the world and among the storms of the elements, so did he maintain and preserve his balance and exemplify those rare virtues of American citizenship among the crowds and in the presence of ambassadors and kings. Colonel Lindberg's victory was a double victory- FIRST-His achievement in doing something never before accomplished by man and thereby receiving the plaudits of the world. SECOND-His keeping his head, his modesty, his common sense and clean habits, and thereby winning again not only the plaudits of the world but also the Laurel Crown of sustained and dignified victory, belonging to an ambassador of Good Will to the World. Class of 1928.

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L'ECHO COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL

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L'ECI-I0 WE COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR OF GOOD WILL AND THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS ESQ The spirit of WE is beyond written words, The spirit of St. Louis is never a song: For who can translate the song of the birds, Or put the true meaning in the clang of a gong? We dared to do what had never been done, And traveled a path unknown to man, A path marked out by the stars and the sun, Up in the sky and away from land. We dared it because something in us had said, Go forth in thy youth and away from the sod, Away from your Mother and where you were bred, Be a credit to yourself and a glory to God. The urge of our youth,- Get away from the crowd There's abundance of water from fountains of old, And the voice of Jehovah speaks out just as loud As it did to the shepherds while keeping their fold. Prepare not the world for an uncertain start, Speak not to the people of what you'd do, Rather take counsel with thyself and thy heart Before sailing out into the infinite blue. Depend upon heart-throbs and subconscious stores, Rely upon power that holds in its hands The world and the sea with its many washed shores, Before trusting the elements away from the land. The Eagle hath nested in clouds far away, Among cliffs whose tops reach the sky, Scared to and fro by night and by day, And never once thought the mountain was high. So the spirit of man on the wings of the wind Would brood out its thoughts in silence and alone, Away from the worry of earth's daily grind, With the sky overhead and his pillow a stone.