East Aurora High School - Auroran Yearbook (East Aurora, NY)

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HISTDIW First How: Mr. Childs, Mr. Corser Second How: Mr. M. Henry, Mrs, Plain, Mr. Bird But at least knowing before your own conscience that you are not mouthing things you do not know and do not under- stand . . . that at least you have tried to see clearly. Reasoning, not to confute past experience, but because you see that past experience of each man now dead has given you higher eminences upon which to stand and thus see further on than they could. ERIC KNIGHT, This Above All IIIIITHEIIIIITICS First Row: Mr. Smith, Miss Boldt, Mr. Hickey Second How: Mr. Marlowe . . In final sum, we must somehow . . . live that the quality of life itself shall be good and lead on fruitfully to other and finer living. How each one does this- that it is which for him builds his indi- viduality. And it is the quality of that living that counts. WILLIAM L. KILPATRICK, Democracy and the Curriculum BIISIIIESS Mrs. Parker, Miss Kaiser, Mr. H. Henry Then, at home again, came a sense of elation with the realization that here were opportunities, millions of jobs, big jobs and small jobs for all us kids, young kids and old kids, if only we could be saved from the old illusions and fairy tales and taught to see things as they are, straight, as solvable unsolved problems and oppor- tunities. LINCOLN STEFFENS, Lincoln Steffens Speaking 10

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FIICIILTV ir There is a group of competent people in our school to whom we refer with the general title of faculty . Almost all of us have learned to know each of them separately and to be grateful for the many thoughtful and kind things that they have done for us. Each room in school has become meaningful to us because of the personality in it. We have worked with and for these people and have found them conscientious in their aims for us and helpful in their individual guidance of us. If in the past, we have taken for granted their tireless labors, we pause to compliment them for their persistent effort. Many of them spend extra hours helping with activities from which we get most of the benefit and a great deal of the fun. We hope that in the days to come we may live lives that will justify and do credit to the skillful training and excellent characters of those who have taught us. science l Q l l L First Row: Mr. Burdick, Miss Stanbro, Mrs. Schnecken- burger. Second Row: Mr. McNeil . . . Man's ultimate fate is not written in the works of Spengler or Veblen or Marx, but in the nucleus of his own cellsf his end if it be pre-destined, is in the death of a star or in a rising of the bacteria . . . for of life there is but one kind. Man shares it with the corn and the crow, the oak and the mayflyf' DONALD C. PzA'r'r1.1:. A Book of Hours

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LIIIIGIIIIGES First How: Miss Bryan, Mrs, Hamilton Second How: Miss Hyde, Mrs. Smith Whenever the English people had direct Contact with other cultures, whether by trade, conquest, cultural interchange, or colonization, they plundered foreign vo- cabularies to enrich their own. This type of plundering, it may be said, had one very great advantage over the harsher forms of acquisition that often go with im- perial expansion: it hurt nobody and left the givers no poorer than they were be- fore. MARGARET SCHLAUCH, The Gift of Tongues EIIGLISH First How: Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Peek Second Row: Miss Harp, Mr. Hoover, Miss Dillon They'll build great bridges yet and taller towers. But a vow has lasted where a wall has fallen,' a word has been remem- bered where a city perished: and faith has lived when a flesh grew rotten. THOMAS WOLFE. The Web and the Rock IIPPLIED IIRTS Mr. White, Mr. Harbison America has been a work hive since the fifteenth century. All over the hundreds of thousands of miles of virgin land the tents went up, the cabins went up, then the brick, the stone, the fantastic cloud- scraping shafts of concrete and steel . . . the workshop became a mill, the mill be- came a factory, the factory became a vast plant, the plant grew into a solid town. EDNA FERBERI A Peculiar Treasure ll