Gordon Technical High School - Tech Log Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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io-g TEQQQ Q ' 'bah ov mmf A planning conference always precedes the decision to produce a new product in the industrial world. The raw material is then brought in, and the artisans began to work on it: first, the rough phase - the cutting, the shaping, the grinding: then the future product undergoes the finer treatment - the polishing. smoothing, and finishing. Finally, the finished product emerges - embellished, highly attractive, very saleable - another very successful product on the market of the world. Here, at Gordon Technical High School, every student is considered as raw material to be worked upon to produce the finished man - a man truly in the image and likeness of God, who can enter the market of the world and make it better by his influence. The first year is like the planning conference at which the student is exposed to an all-around picture of what is before him educationally. The sophomore year is spent in shaping him by molding him to the desired form. In his iunior year, he becomes quite smooth so that now there remain only the smallest chips to be chiselled off with the tiniest of strokes of education. Finally, as a senior. he is ready to emerge as a Tech-ite of whom the entire faculty is proud and eager to send out into the future, fully confident that he will influence his environment for the better rather than be influenced himself by that environment to his detriment. O rs lf-

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PROVIlHAl The Vciy llcveiend Stanislaus Fiolek, UR., S.T.L,, Superior-Provincial of the Chicago Province, Chicago, Illinois. SUPH UH Bl lRAl The Very Reverend John S. Mix, CR., Ph.D Superior-General ol the Congregalion of lhe Resurrection, Home, Italy. X 442' Q .AL A 0 X9 Q Q 'Q E 5 5 5 Q -'Z' Q -5 fe e

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A MISS Gi Ill THE GRAIIU HS Dear Graduates: During these four years you have been delving into the rich mines of wisdom and experience. Almost daily your teachers have pointed out to you the many vistas and labyrinths-any of which will lead to success ii you but follow them rightly. God grant that all of you reach successfully the goal lor which you are striving! Though you will reluctantly say farewell to the happy days spent within the walls ot leaming and bid Adieu to the teachers who have guided you through the years, to the classmates with whom you have made happy associations. you still will be bound by the sacred ties of your tour-year association in high school . . . ties which will grow stronger with advancing years. Let us remain true to God . . . grateful to teachers . . . and ever loyal to our beloved Alma Mater. Adieu! LOUIS GRACZ, C.R. Page Nine ' 1 THE REV. LOUIS A. GRACZ, C.R., A.M., in Library Science, and in Education, Principal, Mothers' Club Moderator. PRINITIPM