Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Board Gt Education PAUL E. HAKALA ---- ------- P resident JAMES G. LAIRD ---- --- Vice-President DR. W. M. ORQVIST DR. CARL G. PEARSON CAPT. FRED BROWN THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING T HIS year the citizens of the Harbor have chosen to do something about providing for the growth in the population of school children. It has become necessary to have a grade school class in the high school building, thus pushing classes together to make room for the grades. The Bond Issue, providing funds amounting to S650,000, will enable the school to build a much needed gymnasium at S357,000 plus 537,000 for furnishings and fixtures, as well as the addition to the Washington Building and remodeling of the present building at S256,000. The gymnasium will be built facing West Third Street, and the addition to the Washington Building will be constructed at Lake Avenue and West Ninth Street. Slogan and essay contests were held to stimulate the students to talk and think Bond Issue in the homes. The prize winning essays, of 400 words or less, were read over WICA, or printed in the Mariner. Winners whose essays were read over WICA were Suann Smith, Lynn Clark, and Tim McDonel, all seniors. Those whose essays were printed in the Mariner were Bernie Nordgren and Marian L. Johnson, seniors, and Norma Krans, sophomore. Community progress was assured by a seventy per cent vote in favor of the Bond Issue on November 7, 1950. Hearty thanks to Harbor's citizens! 8

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TO THE SENIORS OF I95I - I N the period immediately ahead you will be called upon to make the most significant decisions of your life. You are probably approaching commencement with mingled feelings of happiness and regret. Happiness is your dividend for a piece of work well done but regrets creep in as you realize you must soon sever so many worthy friendships. Commence- ment should be a very happy time, a day to enjoy the fruits of victory. Commencement is really the end of the beginning. It ends one apprenticeship of life. During your school years all people who have had any influence in your education have shared their experience with you in order to create for you an educational environment which is both stimulating and challeng- ing. Your teachers have stressed as one obiective that a good education should prepare you for success- ful and happy living. As you leave high school to enter college or ioin the professions, you will find a very competitive world. Everyone will be trying to gain from life the things you value most. You will find ruthless methods of competition practiced and you will also find many fine people playing the game of life by the Golden Rule. In your future you will find need for guidance in many things. There is one suggestion I wish to make If followed, it will pay dividends in happy living. One of the most commendable traits in human beings is the acquired habit of looking for the good in others and telling them about it - the habit of complimenting when it is deserved. Complimenting is working with God according to George Macdonald who wrote, If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man, I shall feel that I have worked with God . By complimenting and commending we pyramid friendships. We thus gain strength and courage to overcome our own difficulties. We like to think that good education is a heritage here at the Harbor. As you leave us, you will be greatly missed. You have made a definite contribution to this heritage of good education. We are all better for your having been here and attending our schools. The members of our faculty, the Board of Education and I hope you experience all the ioys of a great commencement and wish you Godspeed as you leave us. -- Supt. R. S. Lanham 9