Lansdale High School - Highlights Yearbook (Lansdale, PA)

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DIRECTORS Back Bow Ve 'ton Larchmen Vtce Presrdent Wnlard Werkel Paul T Ee gey Norman K Harnes Walter Rex Seated Harry Hunsberger Presldent Katherrne Iones Secretary Chester Daly Edwm Gotwals Treasurer Ralph Smtth Frttz Hartman Edwln Hendrrclf W1ll1s Bartholomew Wtlrrer Gehrnan Mrs Freda KOEDIQ Wm R Mrller Howard Kraft' KNot on plcturel Iames W Wtlltams Mxss Elaine Craner recent graduate of L H S returned th1s year to serve as school secretary The etf1c1er1t Way m whlch she handles her lob IS proof of Lansdale s excel lent comrnercral course M1ss Crane-r replaced M1ss Patrtcxa Carrtgan early tn the school year Mrs Dons Benner IS the person who so ably helps to keep the cogs of Mr Smlths olhce runntng smoothly Even though she IS seldom seen at the hlgh school the students appreclate her efforts 1D thelr behalf and the work she 1S dorng forthe man who s1ts at the head of our school s round table 7 . . 5. ' t7 , , 'V,,,.l'V ,- i

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MMHLH IIAKER Senlor Class Advlser Q DEDICATION E THE knlghts of 53 settlng forth on our quests express our crpprecxcrhon and grcxtltude to M1ss Marxlyn Hctrer for her d1l1gent efforts cmd sagcxclous counsellng ln all of our undertcrkmgs 6 L if L 4 f 5' 1' f 1

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You young people llke all the hlgh school graduates ot former years have declded to make the theme of your commencement or the event of your graduatlon an 1nv1tat1on to partlcxpate ln a klnd of behavlor closely re lated to chlvalry Hlgh school semors used to select a class motto Thls motto would oc cupy a promment place on the prlnted gradu atlon program and not lnlrequently would be blazoned tn gold letters across the prosce n1um arch tn front ol the hlgh school audl torlum Every one of these mottoes or themes lnvxted the graduates to act nobly or ln other words to be chlvalrous How many of you have heard an older per son say ln a plalntlve volce that the age of chlvalry rs past? Actually what these older persons say IS true We should be very happy that the Age of Chlvalry oi the twelfth and thlrteenth centurles wlth all 1ts pageantry and rnartlal exercxse does not exlst today The fact IS that chlvalry rn tts own age rested for the most part on slave labor It could not SUPERINTENDENT RALPH n sM1'rH exlst ln a modern c1v1l1zat1on whxch tends most strongly to remove social barrlers We would dlsagree most heartlly wlth the oldsters that the quahhcatrons of the ldeal kmght of the age of chlvalry are no longer found m our present c1v1l1zat1on It we thlnk of those quallfrcatlons as honor protectlve klndness to the weak generos1ty gallantry and sxmllar vlrtues we need not look far aheld to tlnd these precepts hlghly developed ln human behavlor problems A French phllosopher spoke truth fully when he sald The trouble wlth our tlmes IS that the future 1S not what xt used to be however I honestly belleve that you young people have SLlff1Cl6Ill conhdence ln the future and control ln yourselves to con quer the dltflcultles whlch you will face how ever great they may be Have I helped to develop a generatxon of young people wxth hearts of rags and souls ol chalk 7 My an swer IS an emphatlc No' . . l . lt is true that you face extremely pressing . 3 .