George Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ilu emuriam RR MARTYN The CHERRY TRLe and HATCHhT staffs were deeply grreved to learn that therr beloved frrend and faculty advrser Mr Burr Martyn passed away on March 17 1955 as the result of a sudden heart attack The entrre faculty as well as both publrcatron staffs was shocked rnto a mournful srlence The rnevrtable event so hard to belreve had hnally happened Mr Martyn a famrlrar figure at George Washrngton for almost two decades retrred at the end of the fall term rn February to enjoy a well earned rest So devoted was he to hrs yob as moderator of the CHERRY TREL and HATcHET that even after hrs retrrement he returned to school to rnsure the smooth runnrng of our atfarrs Strll eager to help he met several trmes durrng February and March wrth the HATCHLT staff for needed consultatrons on prrntrng lrterary rtems prctures and the busrness matters assocrated wrth publrcatrons It rs at trmes lrke these that we become aw are of the rnadequacy of words Too often words sound hollow rn therr attempt to express a great loss We can lost a beloved and surely rrreplaceable frrend advrser and companron Mr Martyn easrly won the respect and admrratron of all w ho had the good fortune to know hrm He w as a teacher s teacher especrally noted for hrs unusual love and knowledge of poetry and yournalrsm He was known for hrs qurck wrt and eagerness to help He was a rare man As a student at Columbra College Mr Martyn rmpressed classmates wrth hrs abrlrty on the football freld As a teacher at George Washrngton he rmpressed hrs students wrth hrs everlastrng devotron to therr rnterests Mr Martyn rn sprte of or perhaps because of hrs stalwart form w as as tender a man as one could desrre He had all the frne qualrtres to w hrch one could possrbly asprre To lvlr Martyn we dedrcate thrs book It rs a volume started under hrs gurd ance but completed wrthout hrm We trust that rt meets the hrgh standards tow ard whrch he at all trmes drrected hrs energres We are grateful that we knew hrm We are certarn that we shall never forget hrm B U . V . , ' , , 7 ' I ! . . y . . t . . g , I , A . y - , . . . , . I , . 7 . 4 . . . Q A I 7 , . . , . . - Y r . I . . . , . . , , , not begin to express the myriad emotions that we have at thrs time. We have , , . - , , , , . - , , , , , - - ,

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J. NX X, X,Jf c is iim ll' EDITORML Education makes a people easy to lead but dlfficult to drrve easy to govern but impossible to enslave HE ABOVE XVORDS are attrrbuted to Lord Brougham famous BflflSh statesman of the nrneteenth century They explain neatly why a free democratic society such as ours places great stress on education The education we mean con sxsts of free access to all the facts and opmrons rn all the fields of sc1ence art and phrlosophy and not just a llmrted access determlned by a governrng group that thinks of educatron chrefly as a means of propaganda The use to vyhrch the machinery of education rs put has much to do yyrth a peoples faith rn an education and rn the goy ernrng group that controls rt If people are confident that the educatlonal rnfor matron they are recelvrng rs unbrased sincere and reasonably complete they yyrll rn turn have confi dence rn the leaders yy ho supply the information and yyrll follovy them rn peace and yy ar even to the hnal sacrifice of life itself On the other hand rf they doubt the smcerrty of the rnformatron belng gryen them they yyrll folloyy therr self appolnted leaders yyeakly and only under strrct compulslon and yxrtual enslayement It rs plam that today yye lrye rn a yyorld that IS sharply d1v1ded on the basis of tyyo conflrctrng concepts of educatron one a complete education freely arrrved at and the other a lrmrted education carefully controlled for prop aganda purposes The battlefields of Korea and the varrous areas of tenslon throughout the world are brrngrng this rssue sharply into focus Meantrme we students at George Washington have no doubts as to the type of education yye are recervrng rt rs a free educatron determined by democratic processes and desrgned to grye us com plete and truthful mformatron on which yve can base our dec1s1ons and to this great herxtage of free educatron we are ready to dedrcate our ener gnes our fortunes and rf necessary our lrves But though the busrness of gettrng an education rs a serious one rn the kmd of world we face today yye have been happy to discover that the process yy as not entlrely a grrm affarr It has rncluded lots of fun and excltement such thrngs as the thrill of running for student offices belonging to clubs and teams and takrng part rn the unending round of escapades and practical jokes For all of rt we are Indeed grateful and we herewith express our thanks and apprecratron to the school that made rt possrble In particular we pay a final trxbute to our faculty for its splendid work to our Prrncrpal Dr Leonard J Flredner for hrs far sighted competent leadershrp to the Deans and Grade Advrsers for their careful gurd ance and last but not least to our teachers for thenr patrence and fortitude rn seeing that we alyy ays got the best and did the best we could To them all a final salute we may leave you but we shall never forget you' .yx l r n y All y. 1, y I 1 A-1 ly ' ir ii . ll r 1 -' . ' 1.f X ,f -' . X L , lg' . -, ' , . ., , ' ' , r 9 v - - ,- V V , , . Y .. a ' - 1 v ' ' V 9 . ' ' ' I if V , - 1 1 1 a 3 7 ' ' ' ' Y , , . ,V r f - - , . ,' ' ' ' , ' . . V . 7 I . ' a . Y . . . . . v a l V V' ' - - 1 7 . Q . I V , . v V . V - V Y ' 1 .v 7 Y. Q . - . L, 7 V I, .V , , l I , v V - ' ' x 1 V ' , V . ' V ' ' ' I ' ' . V ' , N ' . , 1 Q , V , . . . V a . , ,