Rossford High School - R Pride Yearbook (Rossford, OH)

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Stadium Dedicated llcl. 1, '49 One long-awaited and cherished dream of R. H. S. students became a tact on Octfiber l as a dedication program preceded the annual football game between Rossford and Perrysburg. . The Bulldogs helped Rossford celebrate the occasion by win- ning 26 to 6. ' V , fzjf iei, fi .

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School Lila THE PHUDUEERS

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R McCesIin Vice President E Kelly School Life The Producers H. Werner President i A Q? Q 1 C. Burrell Bllllllll UF EllUlIllTlllN When we look at civilization in this year 1949 we are greatly impressed with the ever-heightened contrast between the destructive and constructive powers of mankind. Millions live in terror of destructive forces. The modern national highly industrialized state directed by efficient centralized government is an agency of tremendous strength. When activated by ulterior motives of a frenzied ruling group it can cut at the very corner stone of civilization. lf those who today are young and intelligent are conscious of their re- sponsibilities as world citizens, they will develop capacities to induce and promote a better genius to hold, control, and build a lovelier world than that depicted in any of the utopian romances penned by visionaries of the past. We possess immediate means of buildi.ng a far brighter, safer, sounder, civil- ization, one which can make our century as much superior to the nineteenth as the nineteenth century was superior to the tenth. Saul of Tarsus, whose letters rank among the world's most powerful in- spirational literature provided excellent advice for all members of graduating classes when he said When l was a child, I spake as a child, l understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man l put away childish things. The transition from childhood to adolescence to maturity imposes difficulties upon every individual and upon those who come in contact with him. Growing pains are both real and necessary. Unless we feel them, perhaps no growth is occuring. Let it not be said of any member of our CLASS OF I9-49 that he failed to measure up to the needs of the hour, or gave of himself too sparingly to march worthily on the side of the powers of construction. Henry Werner, Jr., President -Q 'Q' R. Skaggs Clerk E. Lewis