Girard College - Corinthian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Died or Killed Photographs I Dolde, Charles Henry. ' 17 Evans, Harry Winfield.32 Fulton, Francis Reed. ' 27 Worthington, in the Service lot Available Klinges, Bernard Vernon.39 Morris, James Alvin. ' 29 Nelson, Wiliam Jay.:. ' 43 .37 Still Reported Missing in Action Cascarino, Lawrence. ' 40 Dunmire, David Paul . ' 40 Gamble Charles A. ' 24 Hildenbrand, Raymond .33 Hugler Robert Kermit.38 Kressler, David A.36 Lambert George W. ' 42 Nolan, John .39 Pritchard, Griffith .38 Purcell, John E.36 Rose James V.30 Shearin, Thomas B. ' 40 Spatzer, Robert Earl.33 Tanner, Earl Richard .31 1946 7 cHijf fflnrintijian

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la t e tfaiclcuztitLcfr (Plate, a( flaaua’Uf,, f 946; When a class leaves Girard I am beset with mixed emotions. I am proud and happy to see a group of young men successfully complete our course of study and round out with us those very significant adolescent years from fourteen to eighteen. But I truly am concerned at seeing you young men leave us now. You step out with such self-con¬ fidence, little knowing what terrific problems lie ahead. You think you have learned a lot, but actually you know so little. You feel ready to meet any new emergency, but really so many decisions have been made for you here. You think you can easily direct your social, moral and physical well-being, but, after all, these phases of your life up to now have been pretty well channeled for you. Although we have great faith in your ability to achieve, and know that the young men who have gone out before you have done so, yet we don ' t just set you adrift. We help you launch your ship. We assist you across the shore breakers, watch how you learn to handle tiller and sail until we are sure you are steering straight across calm or stormy seas to the haven of your desire. Just now the seas ahead are indeed stormy. Never before, I am sure, has our world been so convulsively shaken as it is right now. We always know little enough about the world we live in, but we know much less about the world immediately ahead. What a challenge the future presents to you I You and thousands and tens of thousands of other young men being graduated from our high schools today will have to see this challenge through. You will live, indeed, to see One World. You will live to see the speed of transportation, the development of new power and energy, the re¬ gard for human welfare, international relationships advance to a degree never dreamed of a generation ago. 0, boys, don ' t stop studying, don ' t stop thinking, don ' t stop having visions, don ' t be content until you are a master in the area of your life ' s work. It will be easy to throw up your hands and quit. Find within yourselves the sustaining arms that will hold those hands until the victory is won. It will be easy to grow cynical and skeptical. It will be easy to grow selfish and self-centered, but remember what Paul said, No man liveth to himself alone. Our love for you, our desire for your happiness, our faith in your determination to succeed in your chosen work, our confidence in your integrity, and our belief in your desire to serve well in your homes and in your communities abide always! Follow gladly where you must in order to learn, assume leadership where you are conscious of power, give of yourselves where that giving will bring well-being to others. God bless you and keep you. D. MONTFORT MELCHIOR 1946 QInruttJjtan