Scott High School - Highlander Yearbook (North Braddock, PA)

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Naajh Baacfcfock Bama! af Zalacalian MR. FRANK FOSTER MR. KENNETH LIGHTNER DR. JOSEPH LOVVERY Secretary NIR. WVILLIAM CASSIDY President MR. JOSEPH YURKO MR, KENNETH MCGREEVY MR. CHARLES MIHALY Vice Prcsidcnt

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January 7, 1949 Members of the Class of 1949: Fellow Students: We are a year away from the 20th century,s half way mark. Time cannot be measured solely by a calendar or a clock. There is much to show for almost 2000 years of civilization. Great cities have been built and scientific marvels have been dreamed. Down through the centuries men have fought and died so that all could live with dignity, but before a generation passes, we bury the objectives of their forti- tude. And so it will be-so long as barbarians in high places with blood and power as their passwords and misery as their weapon continue to try to rule the world. Students of this graduating class and other classes will need the courage, the vision and the sacrifice, to discover anew a decent way of living among nations. Our most potent possession is not a man-made explosive but the spirit of the Golden Rule. The Ten Commandments still live and an atomic explosion cannot wipe them our. What has all this to do with you, the fine graduates of Scott High School, North Braddock, in the year 1949? Just this much-the pioneering era has not ended. Great discoveries are still to be made. The greatest challenges will be found on the international frontiers. If the world seems dark today, and it does, we shall meet life better if we have fulfilled the present to the best of our ability. A I have read somewhere that St. Francis of Assisi, hoeing his garden, was asked what he would do, if he were suddenly to learn that he would die at sunset that day? He said, 'QI would finish hoeing my garden. This is the answer to all the troubled young people who are beginning life in a world that appears to hold no security for them or for anyone-young or old. Fellow students, even though the world is in deadly peril, we have not lost the promise of tomorrow. Today is still ours, along with the obligation to live it to the full! As St. Francis said, We must go on hoeing our garden. The Board of Education and the Faculty join me in wishing you well as you face these challenging days. We know that you will remember the Scott traditions and never quit. The heroic souls of all times have climbed the mountains of difficulty, disillusion, and sometimes despair, before they were able to view the plains of Paradise and Peace. Sincerely yours, F. Dewitt Zuerner, Superintendent 11