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

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MR. TROUT'S MESSAGE WATCHMEN. WHAT OF THE NIGHT? From time immemorial, man has been concerned with what lies ahead for him. This day of which you and I are a part is no exception, for we, too, have many occasions for being anxious of the mor- row. You, as a graduating class, are launching into a way of life that is dif- ferent from anything you have experi- enced during the past twelve years. School, with all its faults, kept you under its guiding influence to a larger or lesser degree depending upon the individual. Now all that changes by a process we have come to know as graduation. You will not be forgotten but new faces will fill your places and that day-to-day con- tact with school ends. Now let’s return to our question, What of the Future? Perhaps I should not say this, but at times I have a fear for your well-being; not only you as a class but hundreds of classes like you who are completing their formal education. I know you would wonder why I should say this to you on an occasion like this. My fear is based on the ob- servation that you have not learned a true sense of values. You are the children of an age that measures success in dollars instead of service, in getting instead of giving; yes, privi- leges instead of responsibilities. That’s why school has not meant so much as it might have meant. You wished to measure success in the immediate, instead of the ultimate. It is at this point that the task of education need be stressed. We have tried to do a good job in teaching you the fundamentals, but have you learned to think, that is to think as an individual who is endowed by his Creator with a mind, a body and a soul that no other mortal may claim? It is our hope that as you leave school that the pattern of life of which you were a part continue to expand with ever-widening circles of success. We hope that you will weave into that pattern the strands of truth, love, honesty, and service. Bind them all securely together with the strong fibers of faith—faith in God and in man, faith in a better tomorrow. A short story will perhaps sum up the whole picture. An old man sat under a tree speaking to a young man just leaving high school. They discussed the problems of man- kind and of the world in general and there was much to be said about both that was un- complimentary. The old man assumed the responsibilities for the mistakes of his generation. Then the young man cynically replied, T could make a better world than that. The old man calmly and prayerfully replied, Go to it, my son. The echo from him to you is, Go to it, my son, and may the Creator of all things good give you strength for the task. 10

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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

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aTaculty JOSEPH CAMPANELLA Lebanon Valley College Bachelor oi Science Degree Pennsylvania State College Teaching Subjects: Music English MRS. CLAIRE L. EISENHART Pennsylvania State College Teaching Subject: English MRS. AUCE C. FRITS Temple University Bachelor oi Science Degree Pennsylvania State College Teaching Subject: Home Economics 11