Penn Joint High School - Penn Point Yearbook (Claridge, PA)

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,--... llllll l I ll JOHN W. MOCHNICK High School Principal PROGRESS THROUGH EDUCATION When used in isolation the difference between the terms education and progress can be vague, but obviously, under the intent of the theme of the 1960 Penn Point, progress in itself is corollary to education. Education symbolizes growth and development in knowl- edge, skills, ability or character by teaching, training, study, or experience. Progress suggests advancement, growth, development, or improvement. The purpose of education is to open the mind and make it receptive, to give it ample space over which to roam, to enrich, and to endow with new faculties. Being thus refined, the mind is given an opportunity to escape from things material, present, or common- place. Consequently, a person who has had his mind satisfactorily educated is equipped to apply himself successfully to any vocation that requires intelligence, method, precision, concentration, patience, or any of the powers developed by a good education. No one would dispute the fact that these qualities have con- tributed immeasurably to the progress of civilization as we know it. The following story will illustrate of education in its proper perspective farmer hired a man and set him to wood. When he checked in the middle he was amazed to find the wood all the importance to progress. A work chopping of the morning, chopped. Next day he told the hand to stack the wood in the shed, he figured this would keep him busy, but by noon the iob was done. On the third day, the farmer decided to give him a light iob. He instructed him to sort out the potatoes in the bin, putting the good ones in one pile, the doubtful in another, and to throw out the rotten ones. An hour or so later the farmer went back to see how the iob was progressing. He found the hired man passed out cold, with virtually nothing done. After throwing cold water in the man's face and bringing him around, the farmer demanded an explanation. Darn. the man said wearily, lt's makin' them decisions that's killin' me. It has been the trained and the educated mind that has made the great decisions that have accounted for the marvelous progress the world has made. We usually attribute to man two very distinctive characteristics. The first is his highly-developed brain, the other, his generalized body form. In addition, he possesses unusually facile and useful hands. His brain permitted him to outwit physically stronger enemies, with his hands, it gave him ability to fashion weapons and tools. The second permitted him to adapt himself successfully to the varied and changing conditions he confronted over the world. The development of his mind, the supreme gift of all creation, has given men a large control over his destiny and determined our achievement. In fact, man has so largely improved the variety and power of his techniques and tools that the effect of his actions upon his environment has been likened to a large scale geologic force. However, it is not mere acquisition of knowledge that is important, but the ability to put such knowledge into practice. Since education is a bearer of a nation's ideals, our civilization is more than machines, buildings and the material things around us, important as these may be. The hope of the future lies in man's desire to be better than he is, as well as in his willingness to become better. This desire is the motivating force in progress and is aptly expressed by the poet, Holmes: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul. John W. Mochnick.

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Ad mlnlsfrahon To these men and women goes the most important iob 1 in the community-that of directing the lives and shaping the f -. ' future of youth of the entire area. Many challenges must be YK T-'Cin met and many obstacles overcome in successfully carrying J -N out the educational program for these students. ln addition, ' Y, ,' this task must be performed well so that from kindergarten to 1,5 senior high school students truly progress through education. .q u 'E f ., -1' .. . 3 Q, if , 7 -, 5315-f' il ., Upper right-CHARLES R. HOSTETLER, Supervising Principal, lower left-RICHARD ,Lf ' l. ROBINSON, Assistant Supervising Principal, lower right-RUTH MOLINERO and ' PAUL KING-Guidance Counselors. 'E irff 7 'I .- gr E be -Aff: v 1 'X Q11-1 lllll Row 2: Daniel E. Geiger, Nick Broker, James Malley, Harry Carl, Carl Joseph Palchak, Vera Rimaley, George Newell, Paul J. Sondrick, Harry Fry, George Kifer, Alfred Painter, Patsy Ferrara. Row 1: Stanley Gunid, BGCKUS- 8

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