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

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Mrs Bellelvl Hutchlnson Presldent Mr Robert T Ash Vice President Mr GeorgeF Roop Dr Carl F Dent My dear young people 1940 a new year and the beglnnlng of a new decade What wlll It mean to you? Life begins when a person Funds a goal and It ends when there IS no goal As we approach one another raises nts head a leap hugher up the road of llle No tree wlll stand unless nts roots are ID the ground loo many ol us have gone along without ever talclng root Let us change thatl A person who has something that the world can use will Fund the world ready to receive ft Courage character and conhdence are splendid qualltles glven these you will go far We grow by doing and not IH any other way Let us loolc forward to new helds of labor, Llvlng the glorious hours ol each new day Simply, serenely at peace with our nelghbor Lending a hand along Llle s old highway, Sharing our dreams, our vnslons songs and laughter Wath those whose slcles are fraught wuth clouds ol gray Thus sowing IU the garden ol To morrow A ruch lulhllment of our deeds today Falthlully yours, Page fourteen I ,W ,, Mr. N. Leland Wilson .....,.....,.,,......,...... Secretary f I ,

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May each member ol the graduating class ol 1940 be On Our Way Recently a group of young people vvho had completed publlc school vvorlc were aslced What are your present deslres needs and asplrotlons7 The answer may be summarlzed under four polnts, namely We desire to hncl a way to malce a llvlng We hope to be able to establish a home We are anxious to understand the social economic and polltlcal alfaxrs of our country 4 We need help and guidance vvlth many personal problems of social adjustment able to attain these hopes and asplratlons Benjamin Franklin once sand Dost thou love Lute? Then do not squander time, for that us the stuff Lufe IS made ol go Forth to serve your fellovvmen and your sell May your every effort reflect the desire For undlvldual group and national betterment My sincere best vvlshes to the graduating class of 1940 Most suncerely yours, Principal ol Dovvnlngtovvn Junior S nlor Hugh School Supervising prlncrpal Junior Senior l-llgh School Page thirteen I r I I 1. . . Q' , 3- , I Y... As you have entered to learn, novv may you 1 . , , V .Illini . C

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lla fllllemnrtum MR ERNEST SMEDLEY Lute as what we and we alone malfe It life a lule which Dowmngtown will never forget l-le placed himself In the town as a prominent hgure IU education, rellglon, and business For many years he was alllllated with the Methodist Church, servlng and cooperatlng In every way possible ln education, he was unsurpassed In that he served For twenty enght years as an educator an Downlngtown, a record which vvlll never be forgotten ln buslness, he served the NGtIOnGl Bank ol Dowmngtown, to the extent ol beung a trustworthy and slcllllul employee who wlll long be missed He, and he alone, made a llle that will long be remembered and always be lcnown as an achievement ilu Appreciatinn MR GEORGE E PERRY We wlsh to show our appreciation to Mr George E Perry for his tireless and outstand Ing worlc as an educator ID Downlngtown Schools During his twenty lour years ol servlce, Mr Perry served as chalrman of the Property Committee We are sorry to h ar of the resignation ol Mr George E Perry, but we shall remember hum as one who always had the best Interests ol the school at heart Page Fifteen 1 . l Mr. Smedley WGS O man who mode his