Shenango High School - Tomahawk Shen Hi Yearbook (New Castle, PA)

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I c F! il J- L 111.745 -is -ln- nm O . ? 1 ' L ., L - A. ff' V - MORE BEYOND To the young student plodding through school, month after month. year after year, the one ever bright spot in his dreams of the future is the hour of his graduation. He feels that the proudest moment of his life will be that in which he grasps the evidence of a fin- ished course--the diploma. The diploma is to him a seal of success. The drudgery of school will be over, and he will be free. But as day by day he nears that great moment, there opens up to him a wider view, a more extended visiong what once seemed the end of all things proves but the beginning -- life opens up before him, full of my- steries to be investigated, problems to be solved, and lessons to be conned. The true student, however, will continue his quest for know- ledge no matter if his school books be laid aside and his diploma carefully treasured in his desk. The years that he has spent in study and recitation have fitted him for more thorough work--more' successful study-his eye and ear have been trained to receive the truth, his memory to retain it, and his intellect to digest itg so that he goes forth into the world a proficient workmen-ever learning new lessons-ever solving new problems-ever assimilating new truths,growing, developing each day into a higher and nobler life. In this development, however, there will be hindrances and rivals. As in a race, it id dash and competition from beginning to end. The backward course is strewn with those left behind. They dallied while their comrades darted ahead. They loved leisure in- stead of working for the happiness that comes from well-earned success. Facing this great race, we look forward to the future with a fond glance backward. Tender memories quicken us. Tonight we re- count the pleasures of the past, even though shadows crossed our paths, and clouds flitted over our brightest hopes and dreams, leaving us sometimes in darkest despair. Our school days have been days of happy preparation. Looking through the golden gateway into the future, new fields open to our view. The great work of the past is outweighed by the greater work of the future. With maturer experience and increased knowledge, paralleled oy added and expanded opportunities, we await nobler achievements and richer joys of life. Let our aim ever be WPlus Ultrau. Our reward will be com- mensurate with the diligence and perseverance that we have shown in our preparation, and the vigor with which we enter into the new fields of labor.

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4-K Q qqtv . 2 i . :?r,. N A I . . n . 1 in JI' I f '7-is -if 4. ' ff' nA 1 YOUTH AND AVIATION cont'd These two organizations are demanding more and more recognition of their efforts in behalf of American youth. They are the backers of an interesting and instructive hobby called model building. This activity, so enthusiastically supported by hundreds of would-be aviators, is neither fad nor fancy but a timely sport, that gives the participants actual working knowledge of the principles of construction and design embodied in life sized planes. Then for those boys and girls who do not wish to exert their abilities making something to collect dust, there is the scientific end of model building. This involves the construction of models solely for flight. Many of these represent the ingenuity of amateur designers. Contrary to popular belied they are not a couple of sticks thrown together, wrapped up in paper with a propeller on the end, but are machines constructed on Aerodynamic principles. If you do not think that this is true, may I take the liberty of referring you to Joe Stewart. I can assure you that there is no greater satis- faction to the model builder than to see a product of his own mind sand hands actually take the air and mystically float over the country side. I say mystically because most models do not have combustion motors but rely for power to drive the propeller on the energy re- ceived from twisted rubber strants. Therefore there is no noise and when the motive power is exhausted the planes are kept aloft by what is known as thermal currents. You.probab1y think of such things as absurd and a waste of time, but to the builder it is very fascinating. You may be wondering by this time what all these seemingly insignificant models have to do with practical planes. You are not alone, as even at this late date with model science raging over the countryside, many experts are still blind to the models many possibilities. They for the most part do not even have good reasons, but many, since they have had the reality in their grasp do not want to degrade themselves by tinkering with models I don't mean building a model just to see what it looks like after it is finished, but to actually make a study of the art from the scientific standpoint, in order to learn the difficulties involved and to solve the problems arising. Rprsued in this way, model building can be a real aid to those engaged in designing and building aircraft. This model building would eliminate the tremendous cost in both materials and personnel that annually pay for a few improvements that could have been perfected on models, referring of course to disasters occurring in test flights. Although this talk on Aircraft will probably excite your curiosity, I hardly expect it to arouse your interest, but regardless it shows that Aviation will continue unabated in years to come. For the Model builders of today are the Ayiators of tomorrow. Francis Alexander

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s-'s:f- ---f Q . D . T 2 . ilr, gg I l - r:llf4 - i r ' 1 Q if : - The great problem that presents itself to everythinking man or woman today is how to improve conditions in his or her respective community, making it a more desirable place in which to live. When the women were on their way to seek the buried Christ, the anxious question was, WWho shall roll us amay the stone?W Great stone barriers stand still at the door of progress in human life. Who shall remove these barriers? This question when pondered over, invariably assumes another form. How can I help to remove these obstacles and how can I help to bring about progress in this great revolution of time? May we, the class of '36, be among those whose life work shall be to help solve these problems, by always throwing our influence on the right side. May no word of ours, no influence of ours, and no vote of ours add an atom to the world's misery. May we so live that when this higher course upon which we tonight enter is finished that we may receive from the hands of the great Teacher, that grand diploma bearing His own handwriting, 'Well done, thou good and faith- full servant, enter thou into the joy of the Lordn. Margaret Shaffer