Plainville High School - Plainsman Yearbook (Mariemont, OH)

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TO OUR FABULTY The Book of Proverbs of the Old Testament proclaimed the price of a virtuous woman to be above that of jewels. The ideal teacher is perhaps even more precious than this. For into the care of teachers is given the training of children whose minds are at that stage of growth when they are most easily influenced. These minds must be developed so that the individuals will become capable members of society. To this end, all of the teachersi store of knowledge cannot do so much good, perhaps, as their sympathetic understanding of the problems which hopeful hearts bring to them. Their impartial, conscientious interest in each student strengthens his faith in himself. The ocademic learning and the skills which the student acquires will naturally be of great use in the future, but of much greater use will be the character which was so successfully molded by these men and women who merely lived with him from day to day as they hoped he would learn to live. To these friends of ours go our prayers of thanks and our admiration, that they continue to give so fully of their lives to children to whom they are not even tied by the bonds of blood. -B. C. 34

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JOHN .D. BLACKFORD, Superintendent Ezmcg When Dre Einstein evolved this rather innocuous looking equation in l905, it caused barely ,3. ripple in the scientific world. Yet in l945, the application of that equation blew Nagasaki and Hiroshima to bits, and brought World War ll to on almost immediate conclusion. lntellectuully, man's success has been phenomenal. He has discovered even no- ture's ultlmute secret of transferring muss into energyethe some process which generates heat and light in our suneand the millions of stars. Furthermore, he has discovered how to duplicate that process at his convenience, here on this planet. Man must now, of necessity, live in peace. A Harvard scientist, Dr. Alfred S. Romer, recently stated that the rat is the most likely of all creatures to inherit the earth; Semehow, it lsnlt funny. Mun now has Gl his command the means of com- pletely destroying himself in the space of a few days, or perhaps in a few hours. Obviously, the kind of political and economic philosophy, and of religious practice, which causes or even permits wars must be replaced by principles and practices which beget universal wellebeing and universal peace. There is no other choice. We can swim under the ocean like fish; we con sour through the air like birds; perhaps by now we can hurl ourselves through interplanetary space like comets. Yet how futile are these things if we do not first learn to walk on the face of the earth like men? 36