Hamburg High School - Pinnacle Yearbook (Hamburg, PA)

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ulaeruizi ing rinczyaa HIGHLY ENDOWED with those qualities of mind and spirit which de- velop character and raise an individual to a high plane among his fellow- men, Iohn N. Land, as supervising principal ot schools in Hamburg, takes an important part in the educational life of Pennsylvania. Mr. Land graduated from Franklin and Marshall in l907 with an A.B. degree. During the summer of 1909 he attended Cornell University. He Went to the University of Chicago in l9l3, and in the summers from 1930 to 1935 he attended the University of Pennsylvania, Where he received his A.M. Before becoming supervising principal in Hamburg, he was principal of Public Schools in Alexander and Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Mr. Land belongs to several fraternal orders, among them the Ameri- can Association of School Administrators, the Pennsylvania Historical So- ciety, the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, the Phi Delta Kappa, the Chi Phi, and the Masons. He also holds a life membership in the National Education Association. Eight

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.Sz 00 gamma! Left to Right: Paul Tobias, William Kessler, Adam Hahn, Benjamin Wagner, and Thomas Sanger. A CLOSE investigation of any well established and smoothly run group, whether educational, social, or political, invariably reveals a competent executive force in control. Every organization must of necessity bear the mark of those who mold its policies. Efficient functioning can indicate nothing but wide and enlightened direction. In this respect we hold our- selves to be eminently fortunate. To the five men who compose the staff of school directors we owe the stamp of a well run school. The duties confronting the members of the Hamburg School Board are perplexing and multifarious. At their monthly meetings held in the con- ference room of the Public Library they ponder and act upon such problems as the appointment of census enumerators, the filling of vacancies created by resignations among the faculty, and the proper disposal of school funds. Quietly and inconspicuously, these men Work in the background, unseen but not forgotten. Every pencil and every tablet that We use is evidence of their provision for our needs. Once every term several school directors journey up this hill to inspect the school, visit every classroom, and see the educative process in action. As those cherished diplomas are placed in our eager hands, let us remember our debt of gratitude to these men who have helped to make our graduation possible. Seven

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jo 57442 gracfuafing 64155 f HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL has done what it could for you. It has attempted to supply you with the tools of learning cmd some skill in using them. It has tried to give you an appreciation of the true, the beautiful. and the good. It has set up standards of manners and morals, suitable for a civilized society. It has furnished the stage for an intellectual adventure,-the only one, alas!, that many of the class will ever experience. Now you are leaving us and we look to the future in fear and anxiety. Will many members of this class, as so many have before, succumb almost immediately to the tremendous pressure of contemporary paganism and materialism? Will a few short years change the fresh hopefulness of youth to the cynical skepticism of maturity? We l:now what happens to many of our graduates. Will the same thing happen to some of you? We look at your pleasant, happy faces aligned in joyous phalanx in the body of this book. Will you all be honest and virtuous men and women, and will that honesty and virtue in part be due to the fact that you attended Hamburg High School? We wish that our experience could give us a more hopeful answer. But this we do know,-that some of you will be an honor and a glory to the community in which you will live and to the school that helped to train you. At present we can hope the best for each one of you, and with this last desperate hope we greet you at this Commencement time. Nine . 1...-an-l.