McKinley High School - President Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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oooooooDEDICATIONooooooo IT is with considerable humiliTy ThaT we memorialize in This book a man whose words indicaTe one of The nobIesT concepTs of This word even expressed. IT is Tor us, The living, raTher To be dedicaTed here To The unfinished vvork which They who ToughT here have Thus Tar so nobly advanced. IT is raTher for us To be here dedicaTed To The greaT Task remaining before us, - ThaT from These honored dead we Take increased devoTion To ThaT cause Tor which They gave The lasT Tull measure of devoTion, - ThaT we here highly resolve ThaT These dead shall noT have died in vain - ThaT This naTion, under God, shall have a new birTh of freedom, - and ThaT governmenT of The people, by The people, for The people, shall noT perish from The earTh. GeTTysburg Address Abraham Lincoln November I9, I863 3

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ur O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born on February 12, 1809. He has since become a symbol to all the free vvorld of what America stands for. It would not be fitting to pass without notice the hundred- fiftieth anniversary of the birth of such an American. We at McKinley are not unfamiliar with the sense of duty which leads a President to sacrifice everything for his country. On September 6, 1901, within a block of this school, the President whose name we bear gave evidence that the Lincoln tradition of devotion continues. o 1-1-gi-Li

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O O O O O O O O O O O O O O Thomas T. Dobbins On December 6, l958, death came suddenly to one of McKinley's best lov- ed teachers, Thomas P. Dobbins. Mr. Dob- bins was a native of Lancaster, New York and originally trained to become a patternmaker. After his service in World War l, he entered the teaching profession as a teacher of industrial arts which he taught for a number of years at School No. 51. Fifteen years ago he came to McKinley as a teacher of carp- entry. Throughout he maintained his as- sociation with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local No. 9. Mr. Dobbins' death was sad news to all his associates as well as to his present and past students at McKinley. He main- tained a lively interest in all school act- ivities but was especially interested in the school paper The Artisan , for which he acted in the capacity of adviser. Mr. Dobbins' cheerful attitude, his kindness, and unfailing consideration for otherswill long be remembered at McKinley.