Dallastown Area High School - Spectator Yearbook (Dallastown, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION 7

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ur c School Dallastown High School—the scene of the years of our life devoted to learning. It was built in 1898 but has since received many new additions. We shall never forget the many joys it has given us. 6

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MR. Me SHERRY’S MESSAGE Members of the class of 1952: Not many centuries ago. where you now enjoy the fruits of civilized life, lived and loved another race of human beings. Beneath the same sun that rolls over your heads, the Indian hunter tracked down the panting deer. Gazing on that same moon that smiles on you, the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate. Here the wigwam blaze beamed on the tender and helpless while the council fire glared on the wise and daring. Here, too, the brave warrior with his echoing war cry and his defying death song, fought; and when the tiger strife was over, here curled the smoke of peace. Here they worshipped, and from many a tawny bosom went up a pure prayer to the Great Spirit. This race of nature knew not our God, but a God of the universe he acknowledged in every- thing around. Here, all of this had passed when an oppressed people from distant shores came in a frail bark, bearing seeds of life and death. The former were sown for you while the latter grew in the path of the simple native. The reverent children of education had been too powerful for the tribes of the ignorant. In the fate of the unfortunate Indians, there is much to disturb the sobriety of our judg- ment; much to excuse their own atrocities: much in their characters to demand our admira- tion. What can be more melancholy than their history? By a law of their nature, they were destined to a slow, but sure, extinction. Gone is the terror and glory of their nation; gone is the mighty warrior who, with the enlightment and advantages which we enjoy, might have rivaled us in wealth and power. The pioneers, v ho gradually extended the Influences of this strange people from our gigan- tic woods into the interior and so build up what has become our land of the free, were of every kind and origin; but the political policy which determined the western movement v as that of the wise and just William Penn, the Quaker who founded Pennsylvania and be- queathed his spirit to his followers. There is no phase of history more important or more interesting than that of William Penn's approach to the American Indians. He respected their religion and culture and did not try to crush them under a veneer of Christianity. His underlying conviction that men are bound to- gether by more than selfish interests, that all men are fellow-sons of God, and that mutual tolerance of men of good conscience is the basis of all human dealings might well serve you as a pattern along the long and rugged road to Success. It will be v ell worth your time and effort. S