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

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[j oard of Education Left to Right: Joseph Kieffer, Walter Daugherty. Norman Shermeyer. H. Logan Fisher, Ura Blymire. BOARD OF EDUCATION OFFICERS President..... Vice-President Secretary..... Treasurer----- .. .H. Logan Fisher ......Ura Blymire Norman Shermeyer .Walter Daugherty 8

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ADMINISTRATION 7

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 Members of the Class 1953: When the curtain rose on the first dawn of civilization, it revealed labor in the chains of slavery. History informs us that practically all the ancient governments practiced slavery in some form and it was declared that its origin was divine. Fortunately, the curtain has descended on this era of greed and in arising, it re- veals the beginning of an era of humanity. 9 f f Many submit to work, as in some sort of degrading necessity, and they desire nothing so much on earth as an escape from it. This way of thinking is the heritage of the absurd and unjust feudal system under which serfs labored, and gentlemen spent their lives in fighting and feasting. This is no way of thinking for you. To succeed, it would seem, your conception of work should be visualized as Heaven's great ordinance for human improvement. All progress of the human race and all the gran- deur of civilization has been accomplished by work—Hard Work. Why, in the great scale of things, is work ordained for us? Had it so pleased the great Ordainer, it might have been dispensed with. The world itself might have been a powerful machinery for producing all that man wants. But where, then, would have been human energy, perseverance, pa- tience, virtue, or heroism? Cut off labor with a single blow from the world, and mankind would sink to a crowd of pleasure-seeking degenerates. Let not this great ordinance be broken down. .« As you work for human improvement, you will develop a keen sense of satisfaction. You will realize that the act of creating is better than the things themselves; that exertion is nobler than enjoyment; because the laborer is greater and more worthy of honor than the idler. Through this feeling of satisfaction you will find success. It is our fervent hope that this success will be truly meritorious and great. 9