Mechanicsburg High School - Artisan Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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FOREWORD MERICANS love music! They like to sing . . . they like to play instruments . . . theylike the symphony . . . they like the opera . . . they like boogie- Woogie. Americans believe in music. They believe in the inherent values in music, for they have enjoyed the pleasant leisure hours that music affords and they have known the in- spiration that it can give. Americans believe in the de- mocratizing influence of music, because they know that men of all races and creeds often sit side by side in the enjoyment and performance of great music, completely unmindful of their many differences, but united under the spell of music's beauty and impressed only by one another's ability to produce a Work of artistic value. Here we are . . . glancing through this account of all the things we have done together this year. Let us re- member that just as the musician in an orchestra sub- ordinates his individual self and his ideas of interpretation for a perfect tonal blending of all the players, so we have accomplished all these things by subordinating our many different viewpoints, and by realizing that the only thing that mattered was the harmonious blending of all our efforts and abilities to produce a work of value. PAGE 8

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DEDICATION For the joy of living that comes from song and rhythm, we dec'i- cate the ARTISAN of 1946 to the Spirit of Music at M. H. S.