Pensacola High School - Annona Yearbook (Pensacola, FL)

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To the Seniors of ’59 For many years Pensacola High School has made valuable contributions to this community. If you look through the yearbooks of previous years, you are amazed at the number of present day business and professional leaders who are pictured there. You are encouraged when you realize that your school is in part responsible for the development of the qual- ities that produce these leaders. You must surely feel a sense of pride in the accomplishments of Pensacola High School. You may also be a little frightened when you recognize that the reputation of your school is now making, and will make, a significant contribution to the status of your school. You must have learned that there is nothing free under the sun. All benefits carry with them obliga- tions. Your obligation is to take any benefits you have received from society, through your school or through other sources, and so use them that the maximum number of people are helped. If you will pursue this goal with all the diligence at your command you not only will be an inspiration to persons who follow you in school but also will be a source of satis- faction to those who have helped to place your school in its present position. The tradition, attitudes, and practices of a social institution are developed over long periods of time and are effected by each person who is, or has been, a member of the institution. Each of you has made his contribution to Pensacola High School. This is a much better school because some of you have attend- ed here; some have not changed things much. We who remain are grateful to each of you for the privi- lege of working and living with you for this’ brief period. Remember that you are our representatives in whatever group you find yourself. You will either enhance or hurt our reputation. If you are successful, we succeed with you. If you fail, we share in your failure. We have the utmost confidence in you, and we are happy to be judged by your actions. a.