Penn Yann Academy - Key Yearbook (Penn Yan, NY)

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DEDICATIDN GORDON W. CHAMPNISY Even before Mr. Champney's sterling competence there stands another quality. Our former principal, before all else, remains in our memory as one who knew when and how to advise. Perhaps we sometimes lose sight of the fact that dur- ing high school years there unfailingly come urgent moral crises that always need skillful care. In later life, when we act or choose or work for the best, a large part of the credit deserved will belong to Mr. Champney, who never lost sight of that fact, and never hesitated to act when the need arose.

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FUIQEWUDD As high school days draw to a close, we seem to become instilled more than ever before with a high sense of idealism. This is not because the J une of graduation year can itself add new value to our spiritual standards, but because at graduation every student is somehow made to feel that he should have for his own a certain degree of inspira- tion which the months and years of later life will never cease to make demands upon. 4 o o By far not all is idealism that bears that name. There are people everywhere that talk of aims and high desires and brotherly love only to cover some- thing that is far akin to what they so eloquently proclaim. That is why the real idealism is so often underrated. But we do not judge a creed, for in- stance, by the way certain inevitable hypocrites practice that creed. No, the road to the ideal is one that must be started with a firm conviction and continued with unremitting effort, for the gods themselves have been toiling up the same path ever since the world began. And to emulate the gods as well as worship them were we created.

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CUNTENTS V CLASSES ACTIVITIES ATHLETICS ADVEIQTISEIQS