Shady Side Academy - Academian Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Dedzbaizbn MR. THEODORE R. LEAMAN To have been associated with Mr. Leaman has meant much to the class of 1950. An outstanding teacher, a sound coach, and an understanding and considerate housemaster whose uncanny ability has solved many unsolvable problems, best describes this man. All of this coupled with his mild manner and well-known twinkle in his eye is the reason for Mr. Leaman's popularity. This year's senior class feels that it is an honor to dedicate the 1950 Academian to a man who, dur- ing his twenty-five years on the faculty, has colntributed so much to Shady Side. 3

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FOREWCJRD The Academian is the one school publication which the graduates are likely to keep until it falls apart. It is a volume to be examined with delight and nostalgic reminiscence year after year. It is a book to show to one's children and grandchildren. A yearbook cannot capture all of a school's life, but it can and does catch the highspots, and it contains all sorts of memories in snap shots and phraseology, which make for amusement throughout the years. Here we see the formal, dignified portraits of the faculty, with expressions often very different from those seen in class, at the dinner table, or on the playing field. Here we see portraits of the seniors, groomed and trimmed, again somewhat different from the way we see them every day. Here we see classes, houses, organizations and teams, all grouped as they never are normally, but representing a frozen moment of unity and immobility for future generations to view with in- terest. Here we read the quips of the year and the advertisements so laboriously gathered by stu- dent salesmen. It is a book that will mean something a little different to everyone, but one which should offer something for every taste. Always it will stand as the product of hard work by the board, who have spent long hours assembling the material. I hope you will find it as absorbing as I have. 2

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