Downingtown High School - Our Year Cuckoo Yearbook (Downingtown, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION Education is more than acquisition of knowledge. Education is an acquaintance with and an understanding of our surroundings. Formal education is only one of many metnods by which this may be accomplished. Success may be measured in a material way, but real success is attainment of the richer satisfactions of life which come from work well done. Every person should be able to analyze himself, his attitudes, his reactions to people and to situations. He ought to understand, furtner, that in his ability to adjust himself to otners, lies the hope of his success or the certainty of his failure. Disraeli once said, The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready wnen his opportunity comes. As the graduates of 1938 of Downingtown High School go out to face the realities of life may each one remember the words of the poet: 'Whoever you are, be noble,-Whatever you do, do well; Whenever you speak, speak kindly,-Give joy wherever you dwell. Supervising Principal. The Students of the Downingtown Junior Senior High School deeply regret the loss of their principal, Mr. Donald W. Campbell, who has gone to Harrisburg to fill an important position in the State Department of Education. He did much to make our School an institution of which to be proud, and to him we wish success in all that he may undertake. The Editors. Page Ten

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HOPE AND HERITAGE WHO WE ARE

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BOARD OF EDUCATION Ernest Smedley...........................President George E. Perry.....................Vice-President N. Leland Wilson.........................Secretary Robert T. Ash Mrs. Belle M. Hutchison Perhaps twenty years ago, in the days of Chautauqua, William T. Willis lectured from its platform on America at the Crossroads . It was and is an arresting thought, for America is today at the crossroads. In fact it seems not too much to say that America, yes the world, is always at some crossroad. Again and again nations and individuals are asking at some crossroad of life, Which way ? To the members of the graduating class we say, You, too, are at the crossroads. You are asking at today’s crossroad as you go out from D. H. S. which way? And in the tomorrows you will be coming to other of life’s crossroads where you must choose. May you always choose right” is the hope of your Board of Education. May your choices lead you to true success in life and may your success be in harmony with the definition recently given by a well known lecturer, Success is the measure of the service you render. To this high conception of success Russel H. Conwell owes his enduring fame. We may well follow his example. His world famed lecture, Acres of Diamonds , as well as his high ideals and attainments, have inspired and helped tens of thousands to successful living. So today, though there are many to tell youth that life offers them few opportunities, you can be very certain that there are still Acres of Diamonds for all earnest seekers. Page Eleven