James Harvey Bowen High School - Bowenite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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MR. HEARNE AT HIS DESK if 'A h ,' . 'Q xx -Q4 A X ix, - mv nf ' , gf Nine M

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Dear Graduates of 1951: Most of you realize that your four years of high school have sped by rather rapidly, and that you are starting on a new phase: further schooling, business, or military service. You have been told that you are important because you are a human being and all that this includes. You are way above the animal kingdom and a little below the angels. For this reason each one of you is of more importance that the entire physical universe. The onl true basis of freedom rests on the fact that we are free to do the thin we ou ht to do. To be n y 4 n . . g g u faithful to your duties to God and to your Country is the primary end of education. The extent to which ou achieve this will be the true measure of 'our success. This is learnin how to live. Y 5 8 It is also important to learn how to make a living. Both aims can be accomplished but if the second is sought to the exclusion of the first, then secondary values usurp the place of primary values. In other words, our sense of values has been destroyed. Many sound thinkers today give this loss of putting first things first as the basic cause for the current ills of society. My advice, then, to each of you, is to continue to search for real values, to put first things first, to know what democracy means, and thus to prepare yourself to be active citizens in this grand land. Sincerely yours, Eight

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' - ' Wi 'UWf 'ff'.v 1 f F ':i!Y!V: i '1'- ! 'r Our New Assistant Principal Mr. Eli J. Goldberg In the years to come, on some occasional quiet evening, as you turn the pages of this book and recall the many incidents and activities of high school, you will relive the glorious and carefree high school days of your youth. The pictures and words of this annual will bring back with keen and knowing interest your former associates, favorite club, the teams on which you played, and perhaps a former charmer of the heart. You will see, also, through your powers of memory, the classroom setting, the little variations in your former teachers' mannerisms, and if you are with former classmates, you will discuss all the pet peeves which were so involved in your educational routine. Preserve this yearbook of 1951 for the remainder of your life, for it is the only recorded instrument through which you may continue to vividly retain the years you spent at Bowen. May your days ahead prove to be as fruitful, invigorating and thought-provoking as the time you spent at Bowen, and may they also be happy and prosperous ones as you journey through life. W! Tell