Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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To the Class of 1954: As you leave Hicksville High School, it will be necessary for you to make many adjustments. In a rapidly growing community, such as ours, we must learn to work together, understand problems and functions as citizens. Satisfaction found in the common things of life are often overlooked; for example, the carpenter and mason putting up a house; the housewife tending her pots and pans or, with her needle, fashioning some bright gar- ment to delight the heart of a child. All of these ore artisans of life; workmen whose work nobody need apologize for as inconsequential. There are thousands of other like callings and trades by which the world lives from day to day. Let anyone neglect his task and the world is poorer. Let him honor it and the world is richer. All service ranks the same with Cod, there is no last nor first , wrote Browning. He was ascribing glory to the common task. It is my hope that your high school training will be most helpful to vou in meeting the many challenges and tasks which lie ahead E. H. LeBarron Superintendent To my dear friends: It is with pride and pleasure that this brief message is written to the Class of '54. May I congratulate you on your good record for the current year. The efficient manner in which you have achieved the objec- tives with your activities and with your scholastic standing have been most gratifying to me. Your scholastic record rewarded you with the honor society banner which must have given you a feeling of satisfaction. You have lived as classmates ond friends for four years. You have shared the victories and accomplishments of your friends. You have been happy when you achieved and sad when you were disappointed. You have learned that through coordinated team-work you will succeed. Young people must be inspired to live lives in accordance with high moral and spiritual standards. They must recognize the need for proper conduct in order that they may attain permanent happiness. A belief in Cod helps to provide the individual with the comfort, fortitude, faith and security which are needed to accept life's challenges. We hope the school has stimulated you to act to the end that the quality of product which comes out of this great cooperative enterprise measures up to the dreams and ambitions which the Hicksville High Schools holds individually for eoch of its graduates. Good health, a full life and happiness throughout the years, is my sincere wish for all of you. Mabel R. Farley Principal To the Class of 1954: Congratulations upon reaching another milestone in your lives You have come a long way, but still you are just beginning. What the future holds will be largely up to you. Success depends upon being exact, industri- ous, intelligent, obliging, and practical. You con develop the good qualities inside of yourself just as well in the humblest work as in the highest work. Every year means three hundred sixty-five opportunities. Some we see and know that they are beyond us; others we see, and look upon them as be- neath us. Thus we often miss the opportunity that is the best. As you proceed along the pathway of life, be a good and upright citizen. Map out what you are going to do each day, and do it. Never let yourself get into the habit of leaving a thing unfinished. Make use of every hour, live day by day, as if you knew that day was the lost, and success will crown your efforts. Thomas Horne Acting Principal