Pleasantville High School - Green Quill Yearbook (Pleasantville, NY)

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ADMINSTRATION V f V' if Gy uv' L l 1-1 YS L, . V ty QW MR. ANTI-1oNY SABELLA Administrative Assistant Members of the Class of '62: Greetings and Congratulations! A newspaper columnist recently deprecated the tendency of a national figure to speak and work according to a Grand Design. The expression intrigued me and set me to thinking about grand designs and their effect on mankind. Pursuing these thoughts inevitably leads one to authors of Grand Designs. Our heritage is replete with manifestations of grand designs - the great globe itself , the uni- verse, and the uncharted space beyond must be regarded as the grandest of all designs. So also do we regard its Author, our Creator. For countless years men have studied portions of this the Grandest Design to ascertain the laws which govern it and have thereupon promulgat- ed principles of mathematics, music, astronomy, and even certain verities concerning man's asso- ciation with his fellow men. Moses set down Ten Commandments for his people: jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount: believers in freedom created the Magna Charta and the Federal Con- stitution of the United States of America. They have been proved to be in harmony with God's 'Grand Design. Not one of those grand designs has failed to meet opposition among those whose aims were different from those of the designers. Evil men have made designs in great detail which violated the principles of those designs which are in har- mony with that of the Creator. Some such de- signs have already been shattered. The designs of Ghengis Khan, Mussolini, Hitler and others have cost humanity clearly, yet the Grand Design was not lost though it seemed to be for centuries during the Dark Ages. Presently great minds in western Europe are MR. RONALD C. MCCREARY Principal deliberating over a grand design in the form of a United States of Europe. Though this seems primarily economic in nature, behind it is a philosophy which, if it is successful, may bring more of mankind in closer harmony with G0d's Grand Design. It may well be a part of The Grand Design. VVhat has this to do with a high school and its graduates? Only this, to insure your well be- ing - indeed to justify your existence - you need to have a design which is in keeping with the Grand Design. High school, college, as well as your fellow men should help you to draw for yourself such a life plan. Contacts with teachers, professors, and other professionals whose concern is for the welfare of mankind, should possibly alter the original one in some respectsg disap- pointments, setbacks, poor health, even evil men will surely beset you and require further ad- justment in your life plan. It has been so in all history. Yet for the courageous, the able, the de- termined soul - these do not spell failureg con- trarily setbacks may lead to an even greater achi- evement than you had originally thought was possible . . . yet without the original plan meas- ured beside the Grand Design spelled out by our Creator, your lifetime may be meaningless and empty. Lincoln expressed this so well: I will study and prepare myself and someday my chance will come. In 1927 another newspaperman, David H. Burnham, wisely counseled thus: Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans - aim high in hope and work. So make no little plansf' Sincerely, Mr. M ac

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is :ws fir MR. HAROLD DAVEY MR. NIARTIN O'NEIL Superintendent of Schools Director of Instruction A necessary link between the school and the com- The Board members are George King, Harlan munity, the Board of Education strives for a higher Thompson, Vice-President: David Parker, President: standard of education at Pleasamville schools. Mrs. Beach Conger, Fred Liningcr. Page 5

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IN MEMORIAM LESLIE GARRISON December 12, l909 - June 3, 1961 Teacher of Instrumental Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they gog but I am not resigned. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains,-but the best is lost. Down down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kindg Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am .lot resigned. Edna St. Vincent Millay Page 8 in