North Penn High School - Accolade Yearbook (Lansdale, PA)

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WALTON E LANDES Principal the Class of i958 In the great scheme of thmgs each part has its place the soul and the sea the flowers the ammal lungdom Many of God s creatures are truly marvel ous Note the charming llfe of the blrds their free dom In flight thelr skull in nest building their ex qulsate art of song But beyond the more gifted of all ammal creation comes man with a larger control over his destiny than any other creature The center of this control I5 the mmd the supreme gift of all creation Joy Elmer Morgan How true' The mmd IS the supreme gift of all creation Ever since your birth your mmd has been nurtured and fed first by your parents as you learned your first words and showed your first curiosity for the thmgs around you Later as you entered school your parents were lomed by teachers and then more teachers and by companions ministers Sunday School teach ers coaches neighbors and many many more Not only did those with whom you were acquainted or with whom you came In contact help to make your mmd but also the writers of books magazines newspapers the radio movies and television Think of all the people who have played a part In the making of your mmd Think too of all the people whose mmds you have helped to make The first mark of a student as an appreciation of the worth of his own mmd How much use are you making of your mmd? Smce your mmd us the result of the contributions of many you have a responsibility to use It for the good of many As a graduate of a public school your education has been paid for by all the citizens of our community and our state You therefore have an obligation to make the most of tt so that the returns from their Investment will be the greatest possible Not everyone ns destmed to be a president a doctor a lawyer a writer but each of you has a mche to be filled In life s scheme How well you fill that mche will deter mme to o greater or lesser degree the progress of our society In this age of technology we need not only educated people but people who use their education to the fullest As you leave North Penn Hugh School I challenge you to make the best use of your mind for your own satisfaction but even more for the benefit and uplift of America Sincerely WALTON E LANDES To 1 . , , H ' ' 4 n s I I . . - 1 . . , - - 1 1 ' , . . , , , . ,, . ' ' I I . , . 1 1 1 I . . . , I I ' I 1 I ' I I I I ' ' I I I I I I ' I ' I - I

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DR A KURTZ KING Supervusung Pruncupal A cheerful salute us extended to the Class of T958 whuch us the flrst class to have studued together at North Penn Hugh School throughout the full senuor hugh traunung May those three years of fellowshup teamwork and eftectuve Iearnung help to support promote and develop ever more pleasung and helpful luvung Worthy servuce to fellow men us one of the desurable outcomes of good educatuon The attu tudes effort achuevements and cutuzenshup ex hubuted and developed un school auger well for a strong contrubutuon of servuce un the years to follow graduatuon Extra qualuty of study or of workmanshup wtll prove more than worth the eFfort even though uts recognutuon may be slow at tumes For College admussuon and for employment opportunutues there us growung competutuon and more emphasus upon selectuon Thus calls for patuence best guudance and extra dulugence Dufficultues stumulate best effort and persever ance The faculutues and staff help at North Penn Hugh School are deducated to assust every student and graduate un suutable placement There us a standung unvutatuon to use thus help Parents and constutuents are very pleased to see each class member be graduated from theur school Hope and expectatuons are hugh Every graduate wull want to address humself to fulfill ung or exceedung antucupatuons At the some tume he wull want to realuze hus own noblest ambutuons Real happuness us bound to smule on all who thus apply theur best For the many flne thungs done un and for North Penn Hugh School and uts communuty sun cere apprecuatuon us expressed Contunuung sup port and servuce for thus school and for all edu catuon us solucuted To all a godly challengung lufe full of real servuce and personal satusfactuons us suncerely wushed A KURTZ KING Supervusmg Pruncupcl , . 1 1 4 , , . . 1 1 1 ' . , ' 1 1 1 1 - . ' '

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Cf-Vesv gnfzpkzsls ucahon A year or even sux months ago ut was an un usual occurrence to flnd un any newspaper an artucle on the subuect of Educatuon Durung the past few months ut us duffTcult to flnd a news paper that does not utuluze some of uts columns to duscuss varuous phases of Educatuon or need for change un Educatuon Thus umpetus for glv ang ummedaate attentuon to Educatuonal changes and Educatuonal expansuon prevauls on local state and natuonal levels The Amerucan target whuch sparked the need for natuonal aud to Educatuon was the Whute House Conference on Educatuon called by Presu dent Eusenhower a few years ago A luttle later the President of the Unuted States recommended to Congress a Federal Aud Bull for Educatuon whuch was not passed At the present tume on a natuonal level we have the natuonal cutuzens councul for Better Schools workung on problems of educatuon We have also a natuonal Edu catuonal Polucues Commussuon workung on sumular problems The work of all these commuttees wull affect hugh school educatuon On the State level we have a commuttee ap pounted by Governor Leader to study the edu catuonal needs of our Commonwealth Thus commuttee wull undoubtedly make specuflc recom mendatuons for our General Assembly to adopt un T959 We also have our Leguslatuve commuttee representung 60000 teachers un Pennsylvanua studyung educatuonal needs On a local level and specutlcally for North Penn Hugh School we now have a self evalu atuon whuch was made of our enture school pro MELVIN F SHISLER Assustant Pruncupal gram by our admunustratuon and school staff By the tume the Accolade comes off the press we wull have the recommendatuons of an Evaluatuon commuttee comprusung twenty sux school admun ustrators teachers and educatuonal speclalusts who have made an untensuve three day study of our local hugh school program Thus us a pro fessuonal group and we should expect a profes suonal uob from them ln compluance wuth recom mendatuons from thus commuttee we should have one of the best schools un the county The lmmeduate hysterua for educatuonal changes has come about as a result of the successful launchung of a dog gone Russuan mussule Some ummeduate raducal changes whtch have already been proposed are a sux day school week twelve months school year lunuor colleges free scholarshups for students and teachers un scuence and mathematucs We realuze that many of the changes recom mended wull not ummeduately become a part of our educatuonal program that scuentuflc edu catuon us not the only need of Ameruca today Promotuon and buuldung of peace calls for knowl edge of many kunds and the challenge of Ameru can educatuon should not be regarded as a matter of competutuon wuth Sovuet scuence and technology Thus new emphasis un educatuon wull affect you the Senuor class as you pursue courses un hugher educatuon or as you follow careers of your cholce Congratulatuons and good luck upon your graduatuon from North Penn Hugh School MELVIN F SHISLER Assustant Pruncupal L- . , . on ' . I . . 1 1 1 ' ' , . . . ' - 11 11 - . - . 1 l 1 1 . 1 ' . I . - 1 1 1 . . . I ll