Oley Valley High School - Olean Yearbook (Oley, PA)

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, V Y ,fggv - . its -, . 515, ' s a X Fww!W55N Q Ae.- Mrs. Lottie DeTurck, Mrs. Helen DeTurck MT- 101111 DSTUICII Every noon a line can be seen forming in the hall as the pupils wait for their hot lunch. All this is made possible through the untiring efforts of our two cooks. For every day of the school year, that they have prepared a meal for the school children, we owe them a vote of thanks. Every morning as the pupils troop into the school the halls are always spick and span. The chairs are always neatly placed in the auditorium for assembly, and during the winter the furnace is well tended. These duties. as well as many others, are carried out by our very capable janitor. IB

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CLASS OFFICERS The Cure ls Freedom There is only one cure for evils which newly-acquired' freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day, he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognize faces. The remedy is, to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinion subsides. Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce. And at length, a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. f , 4 ' -Thomas B. Macaulay 118505 18