Hollidaysburg High School - Chimrock Yearbook (Hollidaysburg, PA)

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GRrFF JONES High School Principal The Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth had for its theme the opportunity that each child should have for the development of a healthy personality. It might be asked of each of you, What are you doing to develop a healthy personality? Your answer would involve the use of many institutions, not the least of which is the school. The Hollidaysburg High School provides, in so far as it can, those experiences which tend to develop a socially competent citizen, a healthy personality. The opportunity to work some- where near top mental and physical capacity is provided. A wide choice of courses and subjects are offered. Within the subject field each one is Directed la GRIFF JONES -differ in race, religion, capacities, and interests. The school affords the opportunity to learn to take the sour with the sweet. The student is encouraged to be courageous and to stand, regardless of odds, for what he believes is right. One is also encouraged to use fear as a danger sign rather than a lifelong nightmare. In a variety of classroom and extra-curricular activities the boys and girls are provided the ways and means of opening their hearts and minds to all the experiences of human com- panionship. Here they experience the riches of friendship and the rewards of teamwork while at work and play. The school stresses that each one must produce his own passport to success in living, that frustrations and disasters must be met without spiritual defeat. Those of you who can attain the attributes namedfability to Work at top capacity, meet with equity those that differ, take the sour with the sweet, experience the riches of friendship and rewards of teamwork, overcome frustrations and

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Superintendent of Schools Real Security Lies in Liberty and Opportunity Nobody in this world is more secure than a man in the penitentiary. He is fed, clothed and housed. But he is not free to go and come as he pleases. He is worked, guarded, and disciplined. There are millions of people in the old world with just that kind of security. But we Americans believe that the only real security lies in liberty and opportunity. If we want proof that our American system of competitive free enterprise is superior to any other system, we have only to compare it with others. In the short span of 174 years, the United States has attained a higher degree of culture than any other nation. With less than seven per cent of the population of the world, we have more young people in high schools and colleges, more musical and literary organizations, more libraries, and a greater distribution of the written and spoken word than all the other ninety-three per cent of the people combined. We are better-fed, better-clothed and better- housed than any other people on earth. Our health as a nation is unparalleled and is con- stantly improving. Our life span grows every year. We hold a position of moral and spiritual leadership. We have more hospitals and more charitable institutions than any other country. We have fought and won two world wars to save democracy for all freedom loving people of the world, and we are now helping friend and foe alike to maintain freedom and liberty Without asking any favors in return. The leaders of other systems are trying in every way to destroy our American Way of Life. They know that they can overthrow our present successful system only by evolution of false ideals J. HARRX' HENSHAYY' Superintendent of Srhools through our youth, rather than by revolution through our man power and resources. Their plan is to promise greater security, but at the same time to take away our personal freedom little by little, bit by bit so that we are not aware that we are losing our liberty. As loyal Americans, each and every one of us must do everything within his power to preserve and defend our American Way of Life against those who seek to destroy it. Let us tell them at once that if they know of any other country where they will be better off than here, they are free to go there to live. But, if they do not know of a better place to live, then they must stop trying to import some other eountry's way of life and impose it on us. Page nine 1

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ssistcmt Difrectcws Faculty Assists In c s Various Activities A rouncl of zippluusc is cluc thc faculty for thcir part in lvzuling school affairs. Manny tcuclwrs act:-cl as club or class :ulvisc-rs. Faculty mcmhcrs also palrticipntccl in noontimc sports. Social highlights W1-rc an Outing at Highland Park, Sc-ptclnbvr 18, :md il hzmquct in tho spring. Scvm-ml clumgvs occurrvcl in thc faculty. Nlr. Yincc-ut 'lll1I'CllOTT21, il gI'iLKlll2lif0 of Shippcns- hurg State- 'l'02lCl1l'I'S Follcgc, rc-placed Mr. John lflrb, who was wczillvcl to scrvicc in thc lfnitcfl Stzltcs Navy. .Xliss Ilorothy lXlCflI'l'g0I', am grzndualtv of llltllilllil Stutc 'll-xichors Uollcgc, now tvamclu-s vocal music in Sm-nior High :mtl also supvrviscs it at thc 0illt'l' schools in thc district. Mr. Rolmcrt Wulkm-1' hats rcplzicccl Mr. NlJI'Ill2lI1 Hoovvr in thc :xgrriculturc clcp:u'tmcnt. Mr. Walla-r, il QQI'2llll1ilfO of Pcnnsylvunial. Stzitc Follc-gc-, lilllgllff prcviously :lit Licking Frm-ck Township School. John lIlli0S1l mlm! Allllvtiif lDll'l'l'lOl'S Whats tho jokc? Page elrzven