Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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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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Esse Quam Vlder By Iudge Robert E Lamberton Emment Phlladelphxcx Iurlst HIRTY TI-IREL vears ago I graduated fro n s hool as you are about to do T'1 motto of that school was Lsse auarf v1d r whlch the I.at1n s holars among you wrll readlly translate as To be ra her tnan to seem In tne years that have passed I have forgotten ruch that I learned 1n school The names and faces of some of my classmates have b come dun IH ny memory But the motto stands out more clearly as the years go by That ts be aus ny expertence IU ltfe has proved the motto sound Nhen we see others haxtng thmgs we can not have or domg thtngs we can 'tot do or be1ng thmgs we can not be th temptatton IS strong to 1m1tate to bluff or to pretend B 1t IS vatn to pretend to e what we are not Rs th Vnrrortal Lmcoln satd You can fool some of the people all of the tm and all of the people some of the t1me but you can not fool all of the people all of the tlme The one person tn th world you can never fool ts yourself and th effort to fool others wrll result IH the loss of your own self respect Self respect IS the most valuable asset of your ltfe You started hfe wtth absolute self respe t Your suc cess or fa1lure tn lfe Wlll d p nd largely on how rnuch of that self respect you retam God has gtven each of us certa1n qualtttes and no two of us are allke It IS the duty of ea h of us to mace the ost of what god has gn en us Thls we can not do by rrmtatton oluf r oretence but only by bemg our own natural selves and dew elop mg that natural self as htghly as we can S ef fo th suostance rather than the shado v Esse quam vtder I wlsh each of you e ery success and happtness I ll - ll H , V F - - A I .c . . T mv-1 w . . 3 . 1 2 F c , c v- rt . , . ' c e 1 . 1 ,- ' 1 , , , , . D r , . V ,, V , , . . ut o I . . e I , . T2 , N, , . e , e . ' ' ' ff A . U x,. ' I '24 ,Cl I . c c . .. I ' r' I rm . c I . A .Y , , , , , , . A ,, 1 O A I I - f ', A 9 1 A r Q ' , U H I 3