Fosdick Masten Park High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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THE CHRONICLE 9 of peace, going to crush us in the end? Or are the spiritual forces of mankind, ordered and marshalled in the pursuit of some clear vision, going to triumph over this Frankenstein monster of our own making? We are in an utterly new world, and the task laid on this gener- ation-your generation-is gigantic, far exceeding in volume and complexity the tasks which previous generations have wrestled with. If we are to keep education and ethics in step with the new inventions, if the new body of knowledge is to be made of service to mankind. if the social structure is to be re-adapted to the new conditions so that our machine civilization will be the servant and not the master of the kingdom of the spirit, then the world is going to need more intelli- gence, more resourcefulness, and more devotion than previous gener- ations have possessed. Can your generation measure up to this tremendous task? Will it? v 32 9 a Marvin Farber, M. P. 'l8, Harvard '22, in competition with the college students of the whole country, has won a Fellowship which entitles him to two years of study in Berlin. As this is the first time the honor has come to Buffalo, Masten Park is justly proud of the achievement of one of her sons. b Selby Smith, 'l2, and Samuel Dickey, 'l5, are now members of the staff of our District Attorney. Emma S. Roth, '2l, won second prize in the Charles Delamater Vail Prize Essay Contest of William Smith College. Franklin A. Reed, M. P., 'l7, Cornell, '22, was elected to Tau Beta Pi, the honorary engineering society. Masten Park's interest in her students does not cease with gradu- ation, but follows them into the world, glorying in the triumph of their successes. I

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8 THE CHRONICLE Cflmvntg-Qbnr Hearn by RAYMOND B. FOSDICK of the Class of 1901 I am indebted to the editors of the Year Book for this opportu- nity to extend my greetings to the students of lVIasten Park High School. I represent the older alumni, for I entered the school twenty- five years ago and graduated twenty-one years ago this June. Any period of twenty-one years seems like a long stretch in time, but I venture the suggestion that this last twenty-one years, in point of its significance and place in the world's history, has been perhaps longer than any other similar period through which the world has passed. After all, time is a relative thing, and we can measure it by hours or by the changes that it brings. Compressed within the first twenty- one years of the twentieth century are events which, taken together. make up a mighty revolution. The world today differs from the world of I90I to a far greater extent than the world of 1901 differed from the world of 1881. The age of machinery which started with the industrial revolution at the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury, culminated in the first twenty-one years of the twentieth century in a burst of invention and in advance of material science which far outran anything that had gone before. The airplane, the wireless, the radio, the automobile, and a score of other inventions are rapidly changing the Whole form of human life and intercourse on the surface of the globe. The tremendous advance of astronomy, chemistry and physics has pushed out the boundaries of human knowledge far beyond their previous limits, and we now have conceptions of matter and of time and space such as we did not think of when the nineteenth century closed. But the world war has, of course, brought the greatest change. It has shaken the foundations of our civilization to the very bottom, and has created an economic upheaval such as we have not known since the industrial revolution of the early nineteenth century first began to make civilization a complex and involved process. The world is split with newly awakened animosities and rivalries and is throbbing with untried ideas, and humanity is faced with perils of an unknown kind. I keep wondering whether the human race is going to have vision enough and brains enough to handle these new conditions. Are we going to be able to bring any kind of lasting order out of the seething chaos of the world's affairs? Is this material civilization that we are building up, with its immense engines, which the war taught us could be used for purposes of destruction as well as for purposes

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ENIQDQQ Sveninr Qbftirrrz President .......................................................,,... William Veigel Vice President ....,,..... ...,..... lVl arie A. Monson Secretary , .,.....,.... ........... R uth L. Sandford Treasurer ,...,........ .......... E ugene J. Welte Class Poet ............... ., ......... Dorothy Pierman Class Historian ...,,.,,,,.,..,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,r,,,,,,,,,,,, Caryl R, Dutton Glnnqurrnr Dorothy Pierman Thru silences of mornings red, When slow-swung dreams of night are dead, On brazen wings the call has sped: Know thyself! And with the strange, bold melody Will come your courage, strong and freeg And then you may victoriously Know thyself! Then as you turn and journey on, All doubts and fears and vagueness gone, You find it burned across the Dawn: Know thyself! So onward thru the years you make Your journey toward the Great Day-break, Accepting all the challenge spake: Know thyself!