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A Greetlnq from Mr Theodore M Drllaway D1rector DIVISION of Art Educcxtxon Phxladelphla Publlc Schools T affords me pleasure to have thrs opportuxnrty of extendmg to you my hearty congratulatrons upon your successful completton of our years or hlgh school After forty years l can st1ll recall the thr1ll that l exper enced tn graduatrng from he Somervrlle Massachusetts Hrgh School Smce the school had no aud1tor1um th exercrses took place rn a church En Avant rn large red letters at the front of the church audrtorrum proclarmed the class motto A large orchestra conducted by Mr Henry Hadley now the well known composer and conductor created the emotronal background for the memorable exer crses whlch aroused feehngs of sadness for the separatron from classmates and Joy at the prospect of contmumg ln hlgher rnstttutrons of learnmg or rn enterlng rnto some other freld of hfe s act1v1t1es Srnce that eventful day rn my expertence there have developed great changes rn educat1on Then the prrmary purpose of htgher school educatton was preparatron for college No provrsron was made for those who desrred to enter the freld of art commerce or rndustry Present day educatton 1n the htgh school grves equal opportunrty to all to take courses wh1ch are adapted to the needs of students More and more attentron lo bemg grven to the development of character and apprecratton of nature and the arts through emphasrs upon cultural subjects and to the d velopment of the puptls physrcal as well as sptrrtual std m order that they may have healthy mmds tn healthy lvwdres The schools today are teachlng boys and grrls how to lt e as well as how to malfe a l1 Img lt has been satd that we get from a ptcture what we brrng to 1t Thts also apphes to hfe IH general Those of you graduates who have formed a love for the fmest examples of art hterature and mustc vrrll surely entoy many rrch exoer1ences R member too that the people who get most 1 rf hfe are those who aex ote some ttme t play l trust that each one of you has a hobby whether rt be drawrng pamtrng etchmg craft Work photography musrc or some other forrrt of self exo essron and that you wtll contmue to pra ttce thrs tn your letsure hours You are fortunate to l1ve 1n a crty so rtch rn cultural opoortuntttes whtch l hope you wlll take advantage of l congratulate those of you who plan to contmue your studtes rn htgher educattonal mstttutrons For those who are unable to do so l offer the rerntnder that rnany ernment peopl dtd not entov the ortnlege of a college educatron but neverth less were wrse enough to educate them l So let your motto he En Avant and succ ss to voul . . 1 1 l 7 1,1 , . I f . .fn A 1. , . - 4 . . f , . . . A t , , . . . , . ff If . :- V . , f , . . f . - I I . I ' f I I 1 ' t . . . I , 2 , V . . , 9 , , . ' A 'V ,X .... , . A , , , t . . , C V A . o , , . f, 4 ' 7 s 7 o la T. ' C A . I A I I A Y' 1 1 1 1 - A A I . t C o . cf ' A I . 1 A .L . t .. , G A ' ' Q ' 1 . , r o , X, K 1 - ff 1, SQ,V'SS. t J , . 9 A . 14: l
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Qbseryations By Dr I Labb Thomas Mrmster Flrst M E Church COUNT rt a hrah prrvrleqe to be asked to s nd you a word of coraratula tron on the completron of your Hrqh S hool Course I have watched you come and ao for the past four years I know comparatrvely few of you name yet as your nerqhbor across the street I feel I have an acquarntance wrth you that rs real and qenurne I have felt the throb of your youthful sprrrts as I have nrrnaled wrtn you up and down our street I fancy I have caught the wrstful look rn your eyes as you have drawn near to the close of your hrqh school career and the future has b en loomrnq up before you My heart qoes out to you rn earnest qreetrnq and srnc re prayer that n thrs drffrcult day you may frnd a plac of real s rvrce and true and honorabl achrevement I have referred to thrs day as drffrcult but that rs not unusual Every day has been drffrcult and every day has been one of golden opportunrty Not every day furnrshes a lrke opportunrty for the creatron and acqursrtron of wealth but every day offers an opportunrty for servrce and you have been preparrnq yourself for thrs task Thrs rs art observatron whrch I have made that you may hesrtate to accept as bernq qurte true to lrre but as the days ao by I thrnk you wrll come to the conclusron that a s rrous purpos reveals the attrtude whr h rnsures satrsfyrnq lrfe When a person has srncerely set hrs face toward hrs task wrth a qrrm determrnatron to serve the purpose of hrs exrstenc then whatever 'nay be the tabulated result there rs an rnner conscrous roy whrch comes from havrna serrously endeavored to serve and there wrll b nothrnq rn the dark st hour that can rob one of thrs fou are facrna a new world order whrch wrll tax your powers to tne Irmrt lvfay I dare to say to you how utterly rmpossrble rt wrll be to cope wrth the srtuatron rn any satrsfactory manner wrthout the vrsron and experrence of God I speak as one who has lrttle rf any care for the preservatron of relrqrous denomrnatrons out as one who has a p ofound convrct on that sprrrtual real rty to whrch all d ro rnatrons arve ass 'rt must be orr vrtally rdentrfred wrth our rndrvrdual experrence and we must b corn vrvrdly aware of God as the one rn whom we lrv and rnove and have our b rnq lo b wrthout God rs to be wrthout hope rn th world t rrncrrsor tne huwrarr sorrrt ard shuts rt out from the wrder world of r al ry lrfe that d o nds on erabora mechanrsm rs doomed to bondaqe The acrrov m nt of human freedom deoends on the experrence of sprrrtual vrsron I-Ience the Irberty of man depends on th knowledge and experrence of God That you may vrtally know I-Irm rs my deepest wrsh for you becaus rn that knowledge lres the true secret of successful lrfe l e r - , . , A V . by . , . ,1 ,, ,, Q . . . . 7 G . .. - r 9 e e . , . , . , . . . .L . . , 9 9 C . . . . 3 s, r , , 9 9 - . . , 1 . . . . , H v . G ,, .. - , r r V, - . 3-I .lr . er c re , .. , Q O ,. c, c no , . . ,-, . . 3 ' 9 3 , . ., . xc, .. . 3 .- r .Q rr r . I . r A I , e 1 . - exe 13 I, Q 2. I . . r c.c . A .. .. . Q 13, . I , c - . l
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