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

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Four FOREVVORD The Senior Class of 1948 is again presenting the annual yearbook. This year we have chosen for our theme Pioneers in the Home, the Church, and the School . School life in Oley has many details of the early pioneers. For your information and enjoyment we are presenting our teachers as missionaries , the underclassmen as explorers , our school activities as adventures and the seniors as the pathfinders . All through our school years we have been pioneering under the guidance of the missionaries . They have prepared us to enter the struggles and solve the problems of the outside world. We, the pathfinders , are constantly struggling to find the right path in life. Incomplete and imperfect as the Olean may be, we are now submitting it to you for your approval, hoping that you may have pleasure in looking over our school record. We began at the bottom and climbed step by step, until finally we have reached the peak of pioneering under our Alma Mater. As the years grow sacred, we will turn back the pages of time and see, spread out before us, our most cherished and beloved memories. As our pioneering begins in the outside world, may these sacred memories encourage us to move Step by step, but always forward .

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THOMAS S. KNECHT A. B., Albright College English Latin German We, the graduating class of 1948, proudly dedicate our 1948 Olean to Mr. Thomas S. Knecht for his thoughtful, patient and never-ending guidance. Mr. Knecht is ct man of keen understanding and wide experi- ence. As a missionary, he pio- neered in many parts of China. As an educator in the Oley Schools, he has taught for the ii past twenty-one years in the grades and the high school of our district. His unbounded profession has been a source of great inspiration to a host of pupils. We offer evidence of his great loyalty, noble character, and excellent scholarship. Class of Forty-eight, you have selected a theme which presents a challenge to each of you. As pioneers, the UNCHARTED ETERNAL lies before you and, as you advance in the van of progress in school, home, and church, you will leave behind blazed trails. Your enduring worth depends upon your wise use of God's great gift, personal choice. He intends it as a blessing. Use it fool- ishly and it will prove a curse. f Consult your conscience, as the mariner watches his compass, but let it. as the compass, be centered upon a divinely appointed goal. Thus advance, not alone, but with a heavenly escort. Accept a part of Holy Writ which, God grant, may you use. He, hath showed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. Five