Macfarland High School - Fabella Yearbook (Bordentown, NJ)

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Ph B Franklin and Marshall College MA., University of Pennsylvania ROBERT M. OBERHOLSER Superintendent of School! CHANGE AND PROGRESS are often synonyms. Most certainly change is necessary if progress in any field of endeavor is to be made. And within the past five decades, within the space of a single lifetime, more sig- nificant changes leading to progress have taken place than has been true of the space of time covered by all previous recorded history. In the field of transportation the opening of the twentieth century found our nation de- pendent mainly upon the railroad. Since then the trolley car, busses, auto- mobiles and airplanes have been invented and developed. In the communi- cation field our most efiicient medium prior to 1900 had been the telegraph. Within the comparatively short space of fifty years, we have developed the telephone, wireless, radio, television, and radar. In political science, woman suffrage, advanced social legislation, and civil rights bills are only a few of the changes that have completely changed our manner of living. So, too, we will find similar tremendous changes in the fields of science, medicine, business, and all other fields which enter into the science of living. I6I

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DEDICATION CYNTHIA GERAN Died: Friday, February 1, 19-46 Age: 15 years A comely maitlen here on earth: A .flHZ7ly merrerzger of mirth: Adorecl hy all-to all a frieml. Eager a helping hand to leml. Though zwiderpread fame war not her fate Her heart could 15ml no room for hate. Refzrarzlezl with a Jecond birth: For God alro dlfcerned her worth. 151

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GEORGE M. DARE Principal of High School With such changes taking place in all phases of everyday living, it is to be expected that many changes will be found in our public educational systems. We find first that the number of pupils has multiplied many times since 1900. With increased enrollment we find a tremendous change in the terminal objections of our secondary schools. Fifty years ago it was altogether academicg today it is largely vocational. But despite all these changes, there is one respect in which the public schools of today remain the same as they were fifty years ago. That is in the fact that they offer a guarantee to every boy and girl the privilege of preparing themselves to become efficient citizens and in the further fact that they constitute the country's most effective defense against foreign theories which seek our nation's destruction. Thus we find that each one of us has not only the opportunity but also the responsibility of making the most efiicient use of our educational ex- periences. Our ancestors came to this country largely because of the educa- tional chances for their children. Are we less anxious to preserve the same opportunities for our children? l7l B.S. in Ed., Wharton School, University of Pa M.A. in Ed., University of Pennsylvania