Hornell High School - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Hornell, NY)

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Mr. Robert J. principal, Hornell Johnson H,gh School Hornell Senior High School HORNELL. NEW YORK ROBKRT J. JOHNSON To the Class of 1956: It is my pleasure to write an individual message to each of you through this yearbook; however, I would prefer to pive this messare to each individual personally. I have been with you students but one year, and it has been my pood fortune to .know many of you through this educational relationship. You are completing a preat phase of your lifetime when you have been in association with education. Education is the thing which makes life full in contrast to a meaninpless or treadmill existence. Education enriches life by increasing the power to reason and it makes human beinps of us. You have a duty to society to put to use what you learn in school and the best that you learn out of school. Unless people put to use, either in a vocational or in a cultural wav, what they learn, the learning is valueless to them and to the comunity in which they live. Our worth depends not so greatly on how much we know as on how well we use it. Each of you srould devote his or her life to worthy en- deavor. Everyone who sticks faithfully tc a legitimate and honest occupation deserves a decent standard of living. I believe a person should receive only what he deserves, what he earns, and that the idea that good things should come easy to one is nonsense. You should not be in agreement with the something for nothing philosophy. The faculty of your high school have devoted their time and efforts in an attempt to equip you for your future life. If your intentions are for college, your prepa- ration has been in that channel; the homemaker, the worker in the factory, all of you are leaving with the tools of worthy citizensnip. You have made my first year in Hornell one of rememb-ance and happy thoughts. I have enjoyed the association with the seniors in the Class of 1956. I have dis- covered expectations which are for your adoption—that men and women will feel within themselves a duty to refrain from engaging in practices which are harmful to the public interest and that each of you will devote at least a small portion of his or her time to community improvement or to the sincere and constructive helping of unfortunate individuals. With these few words I offer my sincere farewell and an honest prayer for your future success and happiness. Sincerely yours. RJJsg

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Time to enjoy. . . . Top—In between bells; Junior Prom—“Evening in Paris.” Center—Quit working hard ? Bottom—Senior play in action; I tap . . . . Time to remember . . . .

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Dedicatee With great respect, the class of 1956 wishes to honor one who will be proudly remembered for many years to come. We pay him this tribute for his unrelenting energy in directing our award winning band, in developing our appreci- ation of fine music, and in contributing toward a greater school spirit and morale. Although our pleasure in bestowing this tribute is tempered by a certain sadness in the knowledge that he is leaving us, we know that the faculty and student body join the seniors in wishing him every future success. And so, with genuine affection, this yearbook is dedicated to Dean L. Harrington.