East High School - Sunrise Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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The Faculty

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MR. RAY’S ANNUAL MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATES You, the class of 1925, will be the third class to graduate from this school. The preceding classes have been about equal in size to your class making our total number of graduates, exclusive of the vocational classes, around two hundred and fifty. Probably ten per cent of this number will represent us in the various colleges of the country. Another ten or twenty per cent will be enrolled in the normal schools. This portion of our graduates have a great responsibility resting upon them, for, to them, we assign the task of proving that East is a real school. You should carry that determined spirit with you to the colleges and into your work. Your success will stimulate these at home to do as well as you have done, while a failure will make it harder for another from East to follow you. He will be compelled to prove the worth of this school and himself in the face of your defeat. I can speak with pride, of the work done by our first representatives at college. With one or two exceptions they have succeeded. Our people in the normal schools have done equally as well. 1 hear often of their fine spirit and loyalty. To the seventy per cent, who remain at home and become a part of our industrial and business life, is assigned the duty of proving the merits of our school to the folks of Erie. I sincerely hope that the Class of '25 will not falter in this work but will carry on even to higher honors, the Scarlet and Gray. 9

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THE FACULTY Excelling all other schools in all lines of activities. East also excels them in teachers, or, rather real teachers. Without hesitation we say that OUR faculty is the best in seven states. They are not only teachers but advisors and helpers, who delight in helping. East owes a great deal to them for their work just as teachers but, as they are, East can never repay them for their help. Our teachers have always supported the different activities of the school, even when things were black for success of any kind. They have endeavored to be teachers worthy of merit and they have achieved their aim. In way of bringing about friendly feeling and understanding among the pupils they cannot be excelled. As all teachers are more or less judged by their teaching ability alone, we will say that they are as nearly perfect in this respect as it is possible for any to be. It seems that we are just repeating ourselves over and over. However, it is not because we do not have a good faculty or merely writing to praise them, but it is because we do not know how to express ourselves. Much could be said to their credit but owing to lack of means of expressing we will suffice with this: East has the finest faculty ever assembled in any one school in the countrv