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

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i 'E THINK JS, F. 0. Ellsworth, Principal All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, said Shakespeare. May you seniors, as you graduate, strive to find your place on this great stage and carry on your part like all good troupers.

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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

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!!.'luni ' G. Hoy Bums, Superintendent Members of the Class of I949, the theme of your yearbook, The Show Must Go On is well chosen. lt implies that the regular 'life pursuits must proceed despite any changes that may confront us. lt is at this point of meeting a changing world that education finds one of its purposes, that of preparing us to meet secrets of the universe, and, by the study of this know- ledge, it hopes to foresee the future, At present, education is confronted by o mass of knowledge which is expanding in geometric proportions. The whole world has been explored. We have gone back thousands of years into man's past, we have created ma- chines that make solids transparent, obliterated distance, sent the human voice through miles of space, and opened the oceans of air to man's voyag- ing, yet our chief difficulties today spring from our lack of knowledge. If we are to meet new challenges and continue to carry on our advance- ment, education must not only prepare us by presenting us with facts, but also must teach us to use them. lt needs to do more than conserve past cultural, intellectual, and spiritual knowledge, it must fearlessly explore and replace ignorance with insight, controversy with understanding, and senti- mentality with intelligence. Only in this way can we meet the tremendous problems of obtaining economic stability, governmental understanding, racial harmony, and world peace based on universal good will.