Mayville Central High School - Pacemaker Yearbook (Mayville, NY)

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THEODORE PETERSEN Administrative Principal THE GAME OF LIFE Life with its problems is very comparable to a game of football. There is one schedule including but one game. lt is a long game with no substitutions, and no time-outs. You call the signals and you should expect great things from your backfield mates. Their names are Faith, Hope, and Charity. You can work behind a powerful line if you wish, from end to end, they are Loyalty, Honesty, Devotion to Duty, Punctuality, Cleanliness, Good Behavior, and Self- Respect. There are only ten rules. You know them as the Ten Commandments, and you play them according to your own religion. There is one important ground rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The ball is your mind, soul and body. Boys and girls, let's play the game! ADMI ISTRATIO A CALL TO GREATNESS America's greatest asset is the youth of today. Therein lies the future of our country and the preservation of democ- racy. Education is our best fortress. Without trained and active minds to think clearly and to create, democracy will decline. As students you must never seek the cheap rather than the solid substance of education, bargain-shopping in education is dangerous. You recall the verse in the Bible, lf the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to battle? lt is with these words in mind that I summon the students of Mayville Central School to A Call to Greatness. The first obligation is a willingness to learn. The second obligation is to accept criticism of yourself or your school - sincere criticism can be constructive. The third obligation is to seek a free nation of free minds - men and women free and able to think. As students you should encourage and seek original thinking. Your school is a place where all ideas, all doc- trines, all beliefs are examined in the full light of truth. Congratulations to the Class of l957. May you face the future with open minds and a desire for greatness. To all of the students of M. C. S., may you take home from school all that vou reallv want to. HARRIS J. STEWARD Academic Principal

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MARGARET MCCREARY TO THE SENIOR CLASS One of the rewards of teaching is the opportunity to behold the rare and wonder- ful moment when a class discovers itself. lt is like watching a butterfly emerge from its cocoon. We can expect to see each of you become an individual personality at some point in your school life, but we may only hope that you will come to life as a class, l sow your cocoon stir a little early in your Junior year. Your Sock Hop was far more successful than any of you had dared to expect. You knew then that you could sell tickets and make arrangements as well as any previous class. But you didn't know you had wings until the Junior Play. That meant more than selling tickets to a dance. You had to be the reason for people to come. And you were scared . . . remember? Many of you felt that the play should not be attempted. But the event is a tradition, and you did not wont to go on record as the first class to fail it. Well, you distinguished yourselves . . . not as actors or backstage workers or sales- men . . . but as a class. Together you overpowered a host of obstacles. Most of you, it seemed to me when the play was over, had discovered that good teamwork yields equal rewards to all players, regardless of who the stars may be or how high the box-oftice score. A few of you have not yet seen that the success formula for a play is basic to all group activity. But perhaps you will discover this on a Larger Stage. One of Shakespeare's characters muses, All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely playersz they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. Your world in MCS will soon be a memory. We know that unexpected lump in the throat as the curtains close. But you will find in the larger world that life is a series of performances. Some of you will be stars and some will be walk-ons. May you continue to see that it takes both to make a play. S IOR CLASS ADVISOR