Lansdale High School - Highlights Yearbook (Lansdale, PA)

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HERMAN l BISHOP PRINCIPAL An EgyptIan archItect was engaged by one of the Pharaohs to buIld a lIghthouse at the mouth of the NIle On a rock carefully selected Cmdus the archItect metuc ulously erected hIs house of llght Engraved upon the cement that covered the outstde of the lIghthouse was the name Pharaoh After some years the Wlnd and raIn wore away the cement and Wllh It Pharaohs name Then It was dns covered that the wIly CnIdus had cunnIngly engraved hIs own name In the masonry beneath Each one of you IS In a large measure the archItect of hIs or her lIfe Each one has been endowed by hlS Creator Wllh certam talents Interests and CbIlIlI6S As you desIgn and develop your lIfe In harmony Wllh these endowments so wIll your lIfe be Your parents teachers and compamons have exerted consIderable Influence In remove the veneer that so often screens young adult hood then your true self wIll be revealed Engraved In the structure beneath wIll be your own name May It denote a personalIty that wIll be a credIt to yourself your loved ones and your Creator MHVIN F SHISIER ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL The real assets of Lansdale JOINT HIgh School are not the Investments of taxpayers In buIldIng and equIpment Important as they may be but rather the qUGlIlIeS of the students whIch are developed durIng theIr perIod of traInIng The degree of success of the class of 1955 IS the result of the graduates doIng theIr best In the pOSl tlons and 'obs they have chosen Your yearbook theme embodIes the noble thought that the archItect has achIeved hlS best when he Incorporates the pattern of hIs llfe and l'1ISlhII'llKII'tg In hIs work and Influences those who work wIth hIm to do the same One of our best loved Amerlcan poets often expresses the complete harmony between has lIfe and character In hIs poetry A well known verse by thIs poet whIch should lnSpIFe all of us follows All are archItects of Fate WorkIng In these walls of TIme, Some wIth massIve deeds and great, X Some wIth ornaments of rhyme 9 I . . , . . I I .UI , . I I ' I this development. But as the winds and storms of life I I I I ' I ll '

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RALPH R. SMITH SuPERuNTENDENT Buuldung for Tomorro w The members of the graduatung class of 1955 of the Lansdale Jount Hugh School are thunkung un terms of Buuldung as ut applues partucularly to the mam purpose for whuch school buuldungs are provuded Schools are buult so that gurls and boys wull have a place to go to receuve unstruc tuon un skull subuects un subuects desugned to promote good cutuzenshup and un subuects whuch tend to promote good health and physucal en durance Members of school staffs representatuve cutu zens of several communutues members of school boards archutects and even gurls and boys have had some part un plannung a school to serve the educatuonal unterests and needs of secondary school youth un the North Penn Area It us sun cerely hoped that the buulders and the archutects wull buuld thus school well so that the physucal structure wull play well the role for whuch ut was especually desugned We should not faul to real uze the umportance of a well desugned and well buult school buuldung Some one has saud that a classroom un a school buuldung should be arena for luvung learnung experumentung for struvung succeedung faulung for formung charac ter and for gaunung confidence A buuldung regardless of the purpose for whuch ut may be created should command fav orable attentuon Buuldung us an act whuch takes place un publuc The publuc us the buulders and archutects captuve auduence The U S Supreme Court has decuded un an umportant recent devel opment case that the concept ofthe publuc wel fare us broad and unclusuve The values ut repre sents are spurutual as well as physucal esthetuc as well as monetary lt us wuthun the power of the leguslature to determune that the communuty should be beautuful as well as healthy spacuous as well as clean well balanced as well as care fully controlled In our bug new hugh school now nearung com pletuon ut should be the hope of each of us that courage honesty untegruty understandung and other qualutues of outstandung cutuzenshup wull be buult un the munds and hearts of our gurls and boys The oct of buuldung whether ut be merely physucal or deeply cultural and spurutual us so much a publuc aFfaur Let s each one of us buuld un the very best way he knows how' Ralph R Smltlu -Q 1 I - . ,, . . H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . 1, . I . P - ' ' 1 I . 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' - - 11 I . . ' , I I I . - . , . . . . . . , ,, . H . . . ,, - an . 1 1 I 1 1 1 ' . . .H .

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SCHOUL 2 G7 First Row: Wilmer M. Gehman, Sadie M. Hendricks, J. Walter Rex, James W Williams, Ill. Second Row: Harry M. Hunsberger, Charles L. Nace, Leidy S MRS. ELAINE BITNER Capable Mrs. Elaine Bitner does a fine job in helping to keep the office procedure running smoothly. Even with her busy routine she always finds time to answer our questions with a smile. Elaine wins our heartfelt thanks to her for her patience and cooperation. 10 'Q'