Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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FACULTY

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Seniors of 1958: You are to be congratulated! You are now experiencing the first great triumph of your life. You are graduating from public school. lhope you enjoy the thrill of every moment of this experience. Ihope, too, that your joy is tempered with much humility and thanksgiving to those who have helped guide you along the way--your parents, your teachers and every citizen of the community. No other experience will again be like graduating from high school. You will leave this behind and look to the future to develope a life, a career and an influence. For some of you graduation will be the terminal point of your formal education. For many, Ihope, it is the stepping stone to continue your education in hOSplIali college and graduate school. Regardless which path you take, if you are to live successfully and receive happy rec- ognition for greatness in deed and personality, today is just the beginning of your education in the great college of human experience. I can offer you no great words of wisdom. Nor can Iset up any guideposts along the way. The things I might say are just those that have lighted a path to others who have gone before or are now traveling the path of life. I do know that you live in a golden age and that opportunities beckon to you as never to any mortal in the past. I do know, too, that temptations were never so numerous not so glamorous as they will appear to you. You are of a mechanical age, the advances of which are fabulous. You are the Children of the atomic age. This means you have learned secrets of mother nature which were hidden in the past. But, the men of this age have hardly scratched the surface of the great fieldofknowl- edge that is to be. There is in this age a tremendous need for ability to delve from the known into the unknown and abstract. 80, if you are to leave footprints on the sands of time. you must get. started. Delay is too costly to you and to the world. You must decide what you want to do, what you want to be, and how you wish to influence people To achieve in any path. you must possess the initiative to be curious and at times quite critical. You must choose an ideal and exhibit perseverance and physical stamina, often in the face of grave odds against you; to explore that ideal even though it will consume much time and sap your energy. Out of such experiences in life will evolve your leadership ability. And, truly no man has really lived until others follow him! With what Ihave stated, do not get the idea that life is all struggle and superserious. One compensation of a useful life is inward happiness. a happiness that cannot be adequately des- cribed in mere words. Do not take yourself too seriously, not many others will. Develop out of your striving a good sense of humor. Laugh at your own mistakes, because others will. Actie vate yourself to making laughter in others--then laugh with them. The unknown surrounds every man not led by God. Develop an abiding faith in God until you feel as a son or daughter of His. Then you will see Him in others and they will become your friends and brothers. You have many things going in your favor. My earnest wish for you is that your life will be one of working intensely, playing hard. resting well, and worshiping constantly. Sincerely, Ralph S. Lanham

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FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION AID STUDENTS IN MANY WAYS What would we have done without you. our teachers? Tucked away in our memories will be the part you played in helping us grow You made us work by giving us the desire to learn. You showed us that learning can be really in- teresting, and you were always willing to help us get the most from every subject. 'We probably shall not remember every little detail of our subjects; however we received something greater. We learned from you how to appreciate the better things in life--those things that will make our life richer in the future. A school is only as good as the people in it and to our teachers we give much of the credit for maklng our school years a success. To you teachers, we leave a big thank you, Principal R. M. MEEHAN RUTH WISMAN, Dean of Girls B. S. Youngstown College, M. A. English, Ohio History, B.A. Ohio Western Reserve University Weslyan University, M.A. Columbia University HELIA K. LEHTINEN EDNA M. BECKMAN Mrs. WILLIAM TIENVIERI Secretary to Superintendent Secretary to Principal Attendance Officer