Lansdale High School - Highlights Yearbook (Lansdale, PA)

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Board of Dlrectors Sflllllllillgf Ralph R. Smith, Harry Hunsherger Yernon LlUlllIIlCII Wlllllm .l Yxmmerman Seated: Edwin P. Gotwals, L. S. Hoffman, Wllll Bartholomew lXlIhll'll1t' D .IOHCS PRESIDENT L S Hoffman VICE-PRESIDENT Wlllls Bartholomew 5Ef3RE'fARY Katharine D Jones TREASURER FflWlll P fwotwale Secretary Although we flon't sec- much of her, Mrs. Robert Elliot, secretary to Mr. Smith. is a vital part of LHS. When the .lunior High School burned, lVlr. Smith's ofliec was moved to the Green Street School. It is there that Mrs. Elliot ably performs her flutics of keeping reeords in order and helping Lansdale High School to operate smoothly. A vote of appreciation and thanks to her.

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1 RALPH R. SMITH Superintendent A WAITING WORLD Graduation time is the season for slo- gans, mottoes, and themes. Most of them are high sounding and meaningful. The purpose for using them, I suppose, is to challenge our young people to go out into the world and behave in keeping with the lessons which they are supposed to have learned in school. Our graduates and their teachers this year are stressing the importance of such personal qualities as leadership, citizenship, sportsmanship, and workmanship in the theme called The Fleet of Tomorrow. This bad, bad world in which we are now living really needs a lot of people in it who understand how to deal with the great problems of the present and who are courageous, daring, and determined enough to work toward the solution of those problems. The world has always needed such people but it needs them now more than ever. The world is waiting for young people who are willing to put into practice such acts and deeds as their graduation themes suggest. It is to be hoped that the mem- bers of our graduating class this year will live up to their theme-that they will show great examples of good citizenship, that many of them will become splendid leaders, and that all will work untiringly for the kind of civilization for which the world has long been waiting.

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HERMAN L. BISHOP We read and hear a great deal these days about HBrotherhood. Every February we set aside an entire week for its observance. But despite our efforts we still find much of man's inhumanity to man. People forget to be toler- ant and considerate of others of a different race, color, creed or nationality. Have you ever been thrilled by the music of a great symphony orchestra? Did it occur to you that here you have a great variety of instruments played by a great variety of people representing many nationalities, creeds, types and temperaments? In fact an ensemble consisting of only one or two kinds of instruments would not be a symphony. It takes a variety of colors to make a rainbow. It is the harmonious blending of these varied elements that gives us harmony of sound and color. A poet once wrote: Pfl.HCWGl uNot from one metal alone the perfectest mirror is shapeng Not from one color is built the rainbow's aerial bridge. Instruments blending together yield the di- vinest of musieg Out of a myriad of flowers the sweetest of honey is drawn. Isn't this the pattern that must eventually solve the world's problems? We must become a brother to everyone before the spirit of brotherhood can prevail. When each one of us has learned the secret of love for all man- kind then this old World will produce the thrilling harmony of a great orchestra fol- lowing the beat of the Great Conductor of us all. You who comprise the largest class in L. H. S. history can be an important factor in fulfilling this idea.