Darby High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Darby, PA)

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SUPERINTENDENT To the Class of 1949: Mr. Walter R. Douthett, B.A., M.A. Superintendent of Schools Miss Bess Robson, B.S. Secretary to the Superintendent You, the members of the Class of 1949, were born in the early years of the great depression. During the brief span of your lives, you have seen stark privation, slow recovery, a reversion to slump the year you entered school, recovery through preparedness during your early elementary grades, war with parents in service or industry through your fifth to eighth grades, and four years of the greatest prosperity and productiveness our country has ever known. You have lived through a period in which organized society as represented by the state has come to accept more and more responsibility for your nurture and well-being, without which many of you would not be here to graduate. This unusual debt you owe for your possible existence and your education cannot be paid as much by your ability to earn as by your ability and willingness to help reorganize a divided world in such a way that you and all others may have a chance to earn and participate in a life free from fear of repression, unemployment and war. Your greatest danger is not in what you may do wrong but in what you fail to do at all. We send you out with the hope that the Darby Schools have helped you develop the ability and willingness to pay this debt. WALTER R. DOUTHETT. Superintendent of Schools.

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SCHOOL BOARD William W. Horn President Chas. F. G. Smith Vice President To the Forty Niners: We, the School Board members of Darby School District, extend to you. the graduates of the Class of 1949, our congratulations and sincere wishes for a happy and prosperous future. A good education is a priceless possession and is the first step toward a higher goal, and if applied correctly should pay rich dividends. Whatever you undertake, do it to the best of your ability, and be assured that you will have no regrets. WILLIAM W. HORN. President. Harold W. Pugh Secretary James M. Boice Dr. E. V. Liberace Joseph W. Atkins T reasurer Percival C. Christie Walter R. Douthett Superintendent 11 9

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PRINCIPAL To the Class of 1949: I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature. let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for 1 shall not pass this way again. —Author Unknown. J. WALLACE SANER. Principal.