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

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The work continued as the school grew. Names came and went. The faces changed but not the basics. The power of the Park School is the net total of those who came before. The future is secure in the strength of the present. The class of 1959 leaves the school on the threshold of a new era. Too much has been left unsaid. We were part of the school and we are proud.

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Names, legendary in the school's annals, come back--Smith, Sipple, Coe, Froelicher, Putnam. So much has been Written of these men and Women and their untiring efforts in behalf of the school that it is im- possible now to do more than mention them. They molded us and made us what We are. In 1923 the kindergarten wing was added to the building. In 1948 the front wing, the new building, was constructed. The second grade recorded the event for posterity. By no means professional photographers, they still managed to get a fairly vivid record of the construction. 6

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To you, the members of the Class of 195 9, falls an extraordinary honor. As Mr. Russell might put it, your commencement has several levels of meaning. To you the first level is, and should be, the most important: it is the culmination of your Park School career and of one important phase of your formal education. But because you are the people that you are, the second level is important to you, too. Graduation this year is not only graduation of your class but of past and future Park School senior classes, faculty, parents, and friends who make up the Park School, for June 10, 1959, the Park School ends one important phase of its career and begins another. I cannot conceive of a class more worthy of representing the entire school family on this occasion. In the last two years particularly you have distinguished yourselves as leaders. You have helped to create an atmosphere in which intellectual accomplish- ment is accorded high respect. You have done so without withdrawing into an isolated intellectualism. You have remained appreciative of and have sought for yourselves non-intellectual attainments as well. You have responded magnificently to the chal- lenges made by the faculty Qincluded among these challenges would be the non- intellectual and non-athletic-one made on the basketball court by your mentorsj. You have worked hard in this last year especially. But very significantly you seem to me not to have lost a zest in what you were doing. You have not lost the ability to have fun in your work, to derive pleasure from doing and doing well the tasks which confront you. I have no doubt that for this zest you will find ample scope in the era ahead of us. Hitch your wagon to a star was once merely a metaphor with a splendid ring about it. Today, as does our commencement, it has several levels of meaning. There may be among you several who WILL hitch their wagon to a star-or at least to ia planet! Just as for the 16th century European a New World lay open, so for you a New World awaits. Explore it. Conquer it. Make it a part of you. But don't forget the Old World. And please remember us. ROBERT A. THoMAsoN a