Schenley High School - Schenley Journal Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE SCHENLEY JHIIIHIM SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Pittsburgh 'Pennsylvania 4 1949

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DEDICATION One hundred years ago the Forty-niners journeyed to California. They were exposed to all of Nature's perils of traveling by land and by sea: they faced every man made obstacle. Some crossed the continent fighting Indians, traveling days without sight of water, and leaving their dead comrades behind them: others crossed the Isthmus of Panama enduring fever only to risk their lives again on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: while still others circled Cape Horn, fighting to keep from wrecking on the perilous rocks of the shore. Death waited for them beyond each horizon, reached out for them in every advancing wave. Yet they went on. They sought gold. They had no visions of great empires still to be built nor of a better world to come. There was only the vision of the fulfillment of their own desires. Nevertheless, over the trails they had blazed came railroads: and the shacks they had built for shelter grew into great cities. The Forty-niners had found more treasure than the gold which they had sought. We, the graduates of l949, are modern prospectors seeking a gold hidden much deeper than any man has ever before found: the gold in science which would wipe out famines and epidemics, unharness man from common labor by electric and atomic power: the gold of human understanding, the destroyer of wars, the gold of free expression which builds the dignity of man. To find this untold wealth we must follow a path more dangerous than the prospector of l849 ever dreamed. Ignorance, greed, and selfishness are our enemies. They are more dangerous than rotten boats and the fever infested lsthmusp for seas can be crossed, Indians can be battled, fever can be cured, but to redevelop men's minds, a culture must be changed. Man, who has always sought war, must learn to prevent ity he must seek for the truth who has been content with untruthsf he who has always taken from his neighbor must learn to give to his neighbor. The world has benefitted because of the Eighteen-Forty-niners, not from their tangible achievements as much as from their courage, fortitude, and undy- ing will to go on. We, who must present the world with tangible achievements, such as peace and universal economic security, could find no better qualities to possess than those of our predecessors: for the obstacles that lie in our path can only be surmounted by people with the vision to see the future and the courage to make it into a reality.