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

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S ix V. ,, , ,W,m,,,..,,W.., SCI-ICDCDL BCDARD We appreciate and recognize their untiring endeavor to reach the ultimate in educational opportunities for us- the future citizens of Oley. We pause to honor them for their sincere services. President ROGER S. TROUT r .... , Vice-President PETER A. ANG-STADT Secretary WARREN B. LEVENGOOD wk., . ' fit 'I T Treasurer R M i i CHARLES H. RHOADS I r - ,Q , Director' Y . -E WILSON S. ROHRBACH '

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DEDICATION t Dedicated to MARIE I-l. DeTURCK B.S. University of Pennsylvania Social Science To Miss De Turck, a descendant of one of our pioneer families, we dedicate this book, as an acknowledgment of her untiring efforts for twenty-five years in behalf of many students who have become citizens of our com- munity. We appreciate her ex- cellent scholarship, her noble character, her wise guidance and inspiration and her sincerity and loyalty in training youth. To the Class of 1946: With your faces turned toward an enlarged world, you may well ask what has been gained as a result of the years spent in study. You have had experiences which have enabled you to interpret life more intelligently. You have been brought into contact with various fields of human learning and you have been under the influence of teachers who have imparted to you not only information, concerning their sev- eral subjects, but also something of themselves, their views of life. If you have used your opportunities, you realize what school means to the individual and to the community. The subjects studied in class-room are not the only contributions that the school has made to your life. Among yourselves you have formed associations and friend- ships. You have discovered that it is not necessary that men should be absolutely in accord on all subjects, but likewise, that there are certain broad principles of thought and of conduct, which educated men and women have in common, without which the world would be a very unhappy place. You have discovered that these who have been educated interpret life in a manner impossible to those whose minds have not been trained. The old Latin phrase, Alma Mater , has real meaning. The Oley Township Consolidated School has nourished and cherished you. You will look back to her with affection, with loyalty and with gratitude. May I extend to you both person- ally and officially my affectionate good wishes, press the hope that what you have learned in school may be the foundation for lives of usefulness and happiness. Fwe

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F. H. STAUFFER PH. B., M. A. SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL To The Class of 1946: Finished Yet Beginning is a truly fitting motto for 1946. You are finishing twelve years of free public education. This is a noteworthy achievement. Success is crowning your efforts. Your graduation is a glorious victory. Congratulations to you. May success and happiness be yours always. Total victory was the result of our total mobilization. Permanent peace will re- quire the same mobilization of our energies, of our skills, and the same cooperation that won the war. Mankind in the past has not been able to establish a reign of peace because it has not paid the price of peace. We shall never have the peace we want until we pay that price. This imposes duties and responsibilities that I trust you will accept. Never before has the moral obligation to be intelligent and unselfish been so great, never such a need for fundamental Christian virtues. Let us Begin to evaluate decency and kindness so that the ideas of the Sermon on the Mount may become our daily guide. By ignorance, suspicion, and greed we may lose all. By intelligence, goodwill, and cooperation we can win an age of peace. The keystone of democracy is faith in the individual. If the new world-order is to be beautiful and near-perfect, it will be fashioned by men and women so enlight- ened that prejudice and intolerance can not encroach on their thinking. In the future we need to think of success in terms of happiness-of a job well done. I urge you to consider your obligations-assume your rightful responsibilities. Your diploma is not a sign of a task done, but rather of a task begun and a responsibility assumed. Justify your opportunityg merit the privileged status that is yours. Opportunity calls us to do our part to establish a just and lasting peace. In tribute to the men and women who have suffered and died to make victory possible, let us help to build a future Worthy of their sacrifices. Seven