Leechburg High School - Minetas Yearbook (Leechburg, PA)

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Administration SCHOOL BOARD N. H. SLONAKER f President C. S. HILL f f f f f Secretary F. L. BOTTOMFIELD A. E. WATERS C. C. PARKS

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MINETAS TO THE CLASS OF I935 S a faculty we have taught you different subjects but we have had one aim in view-Intel' lectual training. We realize that the world is absolutely dependent upon trained intelli- gence for its preservation and advancement. lt is trained intelligence that will bring power and knowledge to the multitudes who are content to go through life without thinking and without questioning, who accept fire and the hatching of an egg, the attraction of a feather to a bit of amber and the stars in their courses as the Hshes accept the sea. President Coolidge once said Everything flows from the application of trained intelligence. The man of trained intelligence is a public asset. Trained intelligence has recast civilization by its study and application of the great and fundamental laws of Nature. It has opened up the heavens to depth beyond imagination, weighed remote suns and analyzed them by light which left them before the dawn of history. It has read sermons in rocks, revealed man's place in nature, disclosed the stupendous com' pleity of simple things, and hinted at the underlying unity of all. Trained intelligence has endowed man with his present control of enormous forces. If has solved problems that for ages have hindered and beset mankind. lt has revealed great stores of raw materials, built up scores of thousands of new compounds, furnished the funda' mental data which End embodiment in machines and processes and in those agencies of trans- portation and communication which have made of the world a neighborhood. It has en- abled man to effectively combat disease, added years to the average life, and made it better worth the living. Because of this new breadth of vision, this new insight into the hidden meaning of things about him, the mind of man, cramped for ages by fear and bound by superstition, has emerged into freedom, into a new world, rich in promise and of unsurpassing interest and wonder. Whether or not this rapid progress will continue depends upon the thousands of graduates who, like yourselves, are leaving our public schools each year. A The world is challenging you. Will you accept its responsibilities? V. R. Blauch OUR state and local community have made available to you twelve years of schooling. . You, therefore, have an obligation to the society that has sponsored this opportunity. Some boys and girls feel that society owes them this training, that the individual. Society takes the opposite viewpoint, the individual is trained for the benefit of the group. An education is not the right of each individual, rather it is the opportunity offered by the state, in order that society may perpetuate the ideals upon which it is founded. You are living in a society which science has transformed, therefore you must have an understanding of the nature of science and its relation to the welfare of society. Today you must know how to wisely and intelligently choose your leisureftime activities, for scientihc achievements in many fields have greatly lessened physical and mental labor. Your high school course cannot possibly train you to meet specific social conditions, for no one knows the direction they may take. You should, however, intelligently help to steer society in the true course .as it moves through troubled social waters. Today is a day of collective action. You cannot be entirely independent. All must cooperate. If your high school course has helped you to understand: science, how to best make use of your leisure timeg how to meet changed social conditions, the value of cooperation, I believe it can safely be said it has been well worth while. T. Edward Tench

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MISS ANNA GROVES Mathematics-Junior High Grave eiiy College The training of a child lasts foreve MISS CATHERINE MARSHALL Englfshand H'story-Jr. and Sr. High Goueher College, B. A. You must be truly good to be well liked your first years. Miss MARY GILMORE i-mary and Engizsh-senior High syrswc umywiiy, B, A. Vivaeity and permsiiiy. MR. T. EDWARD TENCH MISS ROBERTA LEE Librarian H'h h lP l-Mth t' Ig Sc oo nnclpa a ema ICS University of Pittsburgh, B. A. Grgve City Coiiggg, B, S, Carnegie Institute of Technology, L. S. University of Pittsburgh, M. A. A knowledge of tastes anad patience are Diseretion and psychology personified. both useful. MR. PARKER D. BAKER MR. FORREST FORD Science-Senior High Athletics, Mathematics, Biology Ursinus College, B. S. University of Illinois Waynesburg College, B. S. A wide general knowledge and a love for frankness. A sound loody for a sound mind. MR. CHARLES S. MESSNER MR. JOHN McCOY Manual Training Science-Junior High Franklin and Marshall College, A. B. India State Teachers College, B. S. The labor of the hands is restful to the Music and science: a combination of the mind. great.