North High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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'zifzlendslmip It is Sunday afternoon, January 25, as I write this required word of farewell to the class of '48. I have thought of the many things which a good school tries to do for young people - ability to reason from fact and not prejudice, knowledge of the great values of American citizenship and their inevitable responsibilities, desire to be honorable, courageous, and dependable. I have faith that you have all of these things in some measure. May they grow stronger in you as the years pass by. I have tried to think of your school career from your viewpoint. I know that you have not always liked everything about school and that sometimes it was difficult to restrain your youthful exuberance. Yet simple explanation brought conformity readily from the good sports that you are. I know that you have liked many things about your school and that as the years pass you will remember them with a nostalgia for the good old times. We have liked you for your loyalty, your ideals, and your generous friendship. Come back to see us, or write us a card once in a while. Good- bye and good luck. Sincerely, W. L. RICHEY Rifle

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l Copyright Gathschene Studio fzeefings To flue pupils and feaclzefzs of Tlvfzflr Higlf. gclwol The poet Tennyson said many years ago: The old order changeth, yielding place to new. lf Tennyson were living today he would realize that his observation of continual change still holds true. There is not a pupil in North High School who can not recognize many changes that have come about in the last few years due to new discoveries, inventions and improved methods of transportation and communication. You do well to keep abreast of these changes which have so great an influence on our daily lives as well as on the history of the world. In chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering - in all the arts and sciences - new discoveries and inventions are constantly being revealed! These advances have brought about the highest standards of living ever known. Unfortunately we have failed to make similar progress in the field of human relations. More im- portant than all the gains made in material things is an improvement in our relations with one another in our own community and with the other peoples of the world. The hatred, prejudice and intolerance that separate in- dividuals and nations must be overcome if we are to have peace in the world. What can we do about it as students in our schools? We can make our contribution to the building of a better world by promoting good will and mutual understanding right here at home, in school and in our own city. Let us be proud of our great achievements in the many lines of human endeavor that have to do with material progress and at the same time let us strive to make much greater advancement in the art of living together to the end that we may have permanent peace. PAUL C. BUNN Superintendent of Schools eight

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Do you, the Class of '48, realize that you are privileged to live at a time when the seemingly impossible is being accomplished? ln one gen- eration the average span of life has been increased by twenty-five years. Many diseases have been segregated and placed under control. New and wonderful drugs have been discovered. Machinery does most of man's work. We can measure the stars in their courses, change one element into another, and harness the heat of the sun. Man's genius has achieved the apparently impossible. We are mastering the technological and material world but are not succeeding in solving the problems of human relations. Can we control this mechanical monster we have produced? The new atomic bombs are one hundred times more powerful than the one that fell on Hiroshima, and the bacteria bombs are more deadly still. Yes, the world about us is changing, but we see little change in man. There is still in his make-up the animal attributes of greed, envy, selfishness and ignorance. Technologically we have developed by leaps and bounds, spiritually and socially we have- changed very little. The world needs a renascence of faith - faith in God and faith in the destiny of man. Our philosophy of life must evolve with our technical progress if our civilization is to survive. C. V. THOMPSON ten