Oakmont High School - Periscope Yearbook (Oakmont, PA)

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DCDICIZITIOH We, as students, realize the stress of the times through which we are passing and at least to some extent, the diH:1culties, trials and hardships of those who are making possihle our being in high school. We lcnow that those more than any others are responsible for our characters and ambitions and that we boys and girls can never repay the love which prompts this devotion. Hoping that we may in a small degree express our appreciation of what our par- ents have done for us, we dedicate to our parents this volume of the Periscope. g'l M11!1' 'vnilzgaf T is-H.,-1b 'f X35 J -ik: 'Wi ' O9 'lv Pdf. 73 7 0.1. 'ig' fi. Eel

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LI mcfmcc We pass into our tomorrows sustained and soothed by the silhouettes of our yesterdays. Characteristic movement of such a period as our present epoch leads from the material and scientific through the artistic and beautiful to the highest type of spiritual fruitage. The schools must carry on. No man is made wiser by another man's ignoranceg no man is made healthy by another manls sickness, The best economists to-day tell us that it is erroneous to think that one man's riches can be successfully founded on another man's poverty. The new teaching must stimulate life's values and foster the ability ofthe individf ual to live in a new social order, lt is mandatory that we cease to be changeless personalities living in a changing world. -W. LEE GILMORE Supervising Principal

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-L-ORCWCRD School life plays and has played an indispensable part in the lives of the people of today. To our parents comes the recollection of school-day memories, while to us comes the realization that to- day's activities constitute the preparation for the future. To some, school life signi- fies hard workg to others, play. It should be a combination ofboth. Every subject from mathematics and languages to gym- nastics and athletics aids in preparedness for future living. The class of Nineteen Thirty-Three, emphasizing the importance of school life by portrayal of every-day scenes in silhou- ette, presents this book of memories to you. I