Northeastern High School - Les Memoires Yearbook (Manchester, PA)

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4a I I ' TO TIIIC FLASS OF 1954: You are to be congratulated on your graduation from lilanchester lligh School. It has not been an easy task. At every turn in the road there was a temptation to turn from your objective and seek another. Many of the students with whom you started high school have thought it wise to terminate their formal education. I realize that our high school cannot meet all of the needs of every student. Ilowever, I am confident that we have helped you, the Class of 195-1, prepare to take your place useful, well-adjusted members of our democratic society. The school has not achieved this alone. Viiithout the help oi the home and the church your progress would not have been satisfactory. As a class you are apprehensive concerning your future, Nuclear fission has created new problems, jobs may be a little harder to find, military service is a real concern for some of you. These and many other disturbing factors have caused some people to say, What 's the use.', Yours is not the first class or the first generation to I'aee diifieult times. Other generations of Americans have faeed problems just as complex and just as mysterious as those which confront you. With a deep and abiding faith in God, in yourself, and in our social institutions you will be able to overcome these adversities. There are some people in our society who have little or no faith in the youth of our time. I am not one of those people. After working with some of you students in junior high and with all of you in this your last year of high school. I have no fears concerning the future of our community. You have proven to me that you can think intelligently, act wisely, and live successfully. As you depart from MILS., I hope that you will not look upon your grad- uation as the end of something, but as the beginning of a new chapter in the great adventure we call life. CARI, W. NELSON 7

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de we ' ' magma cage Congratulations on your graduation from Manchester lligh Sehool. For many of you, this may mark the end ot your formal schooling. llowever, this -does not mean that your education is eomplete. Education is development, education begins at birth and has no end. We, as teaehers. have tried to eom- inunieate to you laets and ruless we have tried to help you in your mental development, in your thinking, in your observation and in your reasoning. This help will have been in vain unless you apply in the future what you have learned. Our efforts have been to help you build up a store house of information for your use in solving future problems. llow well you solve your problems will be an indication of the value of your edueation. We have attempted to help you to beeome a good citizen, eapable of assuming' all the responsibilities of adulthood. lVe are living in a world of confusion, a world that will demand the best of each of us. The future ot the world is in the hands of the youth of today. May we promote our own happiness in proportion to the eontribution we make to the happiness of others. Yesterday is gone. we may never see tomorrow, so let's live our best today. May the members of the Class of '54 live in sueh a Way that they will bring honor to our eountry, to our sehool and to ourselves. C.'LARI41Nt'E R. ORION DORF 6

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bnewaga- ?afcge The first meeting of the Forge llill merger comprised of Manchester Bor- ough, East Manchester Township, Mt. NN'ol'E Borough and York Haven Borough was held on July 7, 1952 in the Manchester lligh School, Manchester, Penn-. sylvania. On the same date. the Conewago Township School Board met' with the merged district and formed the Conewago-Forge Ilill Joint School System, This system operated for one year. During July 19533. upon proper motions of the Newberry Township Board of School Directors and Conewago-Forge lliil Joint School System directors, the Second Voting District ot Newberry Town- ship became the third member district of the present Conewago-Forge Ilill Joint School System. In order to expedite the efficient handling of the normal business which the Board of Directors transact. the committee system is used to the fullest extent. Each member of the Board of Directors serves on either the Finance, Building and Grounds, Transportation or Personnel Committee. lt is the duty of the Chairman of each oi these committees to gather together the necessary information, pertaining to his committee, and recommend to the Board, at a regular meeting, the best solution to the problem at hand. The Board has employed the Buchart Engineering t'orporation as its arch- itect for the development and expansion of the school taeilities and it is to this end that the Northeastern York County School Building Authority was organ- ized in January of 1953, its sole purpose being to provide funds and build new schools or renovate present buildings for the school children in this area. Progress has been made for the expansion ot present buildingsg also plans are being made for the erection of new buildings for elementary centers. This expansion would eliminate the one-room schools in our area and would be replaced by the elementary centers to be located in Mount NYolf, Manchester, Concwago and York llaven. The Building Authority has been granted permis- sion to acquire the necessary land for this Elementary Building program. 'Iiand is being acquired for our Junior-Senior lligh School site. lt is the ultimate goal ot' the Board of Education of the Conewago-Forge Hill Joint School System to provide adequate school facilities and the neces- sary teaching staff to afford each pupil the opportunity of receiving the best education available, To this end your directors have dedicated themselves. 3