Lansdale High School - Highlights Yearbook (Lansdale, PA)

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.xdclminidfrccfion s RALPH R. SMITH Szzperifztemiefzt GOING SOMEWHERE The members of the graduating class of 1947 of the Lansdale High School are to be congratulated on their determination to go somewhere and finally to get there-to become graduates of a regularly approved secondary school of Pennsylvania. So far these young people have had a definite aim or purpose in mind and they have attained their objective. Their parents and teachers are very proud of them and rejoice with them in their great accom- plishment. ! A Where will these fine young people go from here? A few years ago, some of the graduates of American High Schools were saying, P. A., here we come, and in years of more recent date many of them were inducted into a more hazardous endeavor-to fight and even to die for their country. Young people have not had the opportunity in the last fifteen or twenty years to live in a sane and healthy environment. Those of us who have had some small part in helping these young people to reach the time and place of becoming graduates 'of the Lansdale High School are very much concerned about the road which they are to travel in the years ahead. The word progress has been defined by some people as man- kind going by on high, without knowing where or why it is going. Home has come to mean, for too many of us, as a place to go to change clothes to go somewhere else. Society may not be as bad as that. We should still have faith in the youth of America, continue to trust them, and feel convinced that they will live purposeful lives and that they will continue to go somewhere. They will need a great deal of help from somebody if they are ever to orient them- selves properly in the bitter and violent world which has been handed on to r them. 4 , RALPH R. SMITH Eight