East Bethlehem Township High School - Annual Yearbook (Fredericktown, PA)

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A MESSAGE TO THE SENIORS A cardinal principal of education that became a major objective after VVorld VVar l was health instruction. The second and third major objectives, social etliciency and character development have been stressed during your past four years. ln order that you could distinguish between real and passing interest, in order that you would not have any distorted values, many' opportunities have been given to develop you individually as a better member of society. You have had opportunities to develop leadership and initiative. You have been encouraged to think for your- self and to draw your own conclusions. Your education has been based upon the equality of man, regardless of race or creed. Your education has been based on truth. You have been educated to live as free men in an American Democracy. lfVith every freedom goes a corresponding obligation. Our foes are attacking your personal freedom, the kind of a life you have learned to live is being challenged. Now you are being called upon to defend the American way of life. The moral excellence of your own character assures us of the final outcome. lylay this departure of yours, from normal life, be beneficial rather than detrimental and in Lincoln's words: lVitli firm- ness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the Work in which we are engaged. EARL I. CULLEN, Prinripal.

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Senior Closs Officers . Presidenz WVILIJAM NIORGAN Sefremry MARGARET SMITH Vice President FRED STUVEK Trcusuretr BARBARA VANDEGRIFT HISTORY- CLASS OF 1943 Here it is nineteen hundred forty-three, and the end of our high school days. It hardly seems possible that four years have gone by since we were Green Freshmen. How well We remember that first day of school, nineteen thirty nine ! I ! ! It was fun-for the upperclassrnenl As Freshmen we did feel as if we were intruders, but that soon Wore off. The highlight of our Freshman year was the Freshman and Sophomore party. After that, we really got into the swing of things. But our Freshmen days were soon over, and We came back in nineteen forty vowing vengeance for the initiation We had had the year before. VVe elected our first Class Officers in our Sophomore year. They were: President, lWary Bartyg Vice-President, Andrew Vvaskog and Secretary and Treasurer, John Kovach. Showing our revolutionary trend, we were the first class ever to have a Sophomore Class Play. VVe were proud of our efforts when the play Stuffed Skirts, under the direction of Miss