Park School of Baltimore - Brownie Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Dear Fifty-Sixers, Many of you have spent all, some have spent most, and all of you have spent some of your school life in a pioneer school, a school built upon the foundation of the welfare of youth, recognizing that each is different but that each is of equal value, a school dedicated to the setting up and maintaining of an environment conducive to youth's fulfillment of promise. There would be no rewards and no punishment except those inherent to the situation. Each would travel at his own rate, be helped to discover and exploit his gifts and be his brother's keeper. You are blessed! The Park School was founded and nurtured by dedicated people, people who did not count personal cost. They had room only for their vision of a better world for youth. Ahead of their time, they had the needed courage. ' Before you were born there was a crisis. Coinciding with the national financial difficulty, your school was without money and almost without students. The willingness to sacrifice was at hand but it had lost its leadership. This was the hour and the man for the hour was the one you know so well, Mr. Hans Froelicher. He mobilized the slim and frightened forces and obtained money when none was to be had, secured students when none were available and launched what turned out to be the golden age for your school. Nor was he unmindful of the dire need of those who were following his lead. He sought out their troubles, ignoring his own, and through wise counsel, personal time-consuming effort and money, saw that all were housed, clothed and fed. I shall always remember his first words to the faculty: I know something of finance and men, I am not an educator. I will keep the school open and depend upon you who know how, to run it. The first part turned out to be an understatement, the second, not true. Through his efforts your school is not only here but solid. Through his efforts to have your school accepted in the community and contribute to the advancement of the education of youth in general he is a nationally known and honored educator. And the philosophy and methods of your school is generally practiced in public instruction. Your head master is a modest man, so l want to tell you of a few things, important to you, that he knows. He knows there is nothing holy about subiect matter-that its value lies in what it may do to and for you. He knows that everyone does not learn in the same way nor only out of books, that one learns to do by doing , and only that which you will take unto yourselves, out of all experiences, is yours. He knows youth has value in its own right and that the day-by-day growth should be evaluated by non-static and appropriate measures, not by adult standards. He knows democracy is learned by living democratically, not by reading and talking about it, that however efficient, safe and benevolent a tightly directed school may be, it arrests this and other opportunities. He knows that youth should be allowed to make mistakes. He knows the body and mind and spirit must be integrated, that it cannot be developed separately, that intellectual snobbery frustrates education. He knows youth should develop the habit of success, that what man has done man can do, that re-creation can be creative and youth should develop an ambition pattern to fit his gifts. He knows nothing acquired on earth can be passed on by way of birth to the offspring, that one must be accepted for what he is, not for his origin, that the enioyment of freedom is a grave ancl exacting responsibility. He knows trusted youth is trustworthy. He knows man does not live by bread alone. He knows each of you. You are twice blessed!! By the accident of birth date he will graduate with you. This can happen only once in a lifetime. He can never forget the Class of l956. You are thrice blessed!!! Appreciatively yours, M5 ,ig

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We have a problem Whom shall we tell? MR. TOM We've a job to be done Who stands behind us? MR. TOM We need pictures for the Brownie. Who helps us take them? MR. TOM Twenty rolls of film. Who develops them? MR. TOM Decorations for a prom? A query in the Postscript? Ask MR. TOM No matter the question, regardless the time. Always gentle answers, helpful suggestions. That's MR. TOM Silently anticipating, Silently making sure a job is done. Always MR, TOM He helps sincerely, unselfishly, Giving all, expecting little. MR. TOM A glowing smile and able hands Give warmth and understanding. For being a friend, a guide, a helper, an advisor, We thank you, MR. TOM

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, xg 1.3 1 t 0 ls 51 Q. I Q th f- ! , l 4 BOB BAKER Let's conduct this meeting according to Robert's Rules of Order! Robert who? Robert Baker. notch! Rob- oh, you mean Bru! And did you say order ? Skip it. What's his report on? Facts and figures of the Council budget or a blow-by-blow description of his last game? The Baker Fan Club lmembership strictly femalell finds its hero anywhere-sweating and straining under Playshop scenery or lounging, legs outstretched, up front in Council. Graduating? 'Fraid so, but the name that lredlheaded our morning roll calls will be on the plus side of any 730-rf What? Oh, ask Evie, she'll know. That gal has a hand in everything. Need a leader? Elect Beneschl Of COUTSS, she's already been iunior-class president, news editor of the Postscript, U.N. chairman, and co-editor of the Brownie .... Sounds like a female Simon Legree? Mais non! She dances, acts, swims, plays tennis, and possesses the busiest date book this side of the Mason-Dixon Line. Evie-a synonym for Creativity which, coupled with her spontaneous energy and enthusiasm, set of? such chain-reactions of activity that the school hasn't recovered yet! What's more, it doesn't want to! Calf, future score sheet! EVE BENESCH mmtantt it ,xiii Earnest .ai--- '