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

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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

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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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, ., ,,.,--ma.- 1 I T'V!23a1 , 'rr I 1 ,., CLASS KNOCKER Taskmasters and fellow slaves. Although most people do not realize it, the knocker holds a very important position in this world of ours. Some one knocked the old route to China, and Columbus set out to find a new one. I shall knock this high school and take a chance of being mobbed. H LEN KELLY, our president, thinks she's good looking. You can easily burst that bubble by taking a good look at her. PEG SHAFFER at the beginning of the year was elected treasurer of the class. She collected a few hundred bucks of class dues and then disappeared for a few days. For Peg's welfare and for the wel- fare of our depleted treasury, we decided to look her up. HARRY HARE was elected in the Junior year, and he had the nerve to report a deficit of one cent. I don't see how anyone could be so tight. The wise members of our class are RUTH McFERREN, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, and RUTH MAYBERRY. They wash the blackboards, dust erasers, and the most intelligent thing they do is to sleep during recitation periods so the teachers won't know how dumb they actually are. The majority of us poor students have to get out of bed and leave our pleasant dreams to come to this prison at the unspeakable hour of 8:15 in a contraption that wouldn't have given Noah confidence. WART THCMPSON, HARVEY KETZEL, HERMAN LECHNER, our ten o'clock scholars, come late every day and get away with it. fAnd to make matters worseb now a days we can't even sleep. Numerous complaints have come from CB T McDONALD, DANNY FBENGEL, CALVIN WHITE and GEORGE MURPHY. They have been on the war path ever since FRANCIS CLARK started driving that 1914 thrashing machine to school. MARIE BENSON and OLIVE COCHRAN come a close second to GIBBY for the nearest approach to a mule's UHee Hawu. I don't have to say much about IDA BETTY CLARK. She's Rusty to you. BILL WHITACRE, better known as nBluffing Babyn, thinks he's a specialist in the art of bluffing. JOHN ZAK shows signs of being a great poet. In English class he wrote a poem called, Wkuthn. As we have two Ruths in the class, I didn't know which one it was. I asked him which Ruth it was, and he said he cou1dn't figure which one was the best so he wrote about both. D DE SCHWEIKERT has decided to take a post graduate courseg her chief subject will be WKeeping an Eye on Jimmie.n BULISCO, McILTBOT, WERESUK and WILLIAMS managed to make the foot- ball team, because the coach lacked good material and was forc to use them. MARY JANE LAWRENCE said she wanted to be a doctor. She did not say what kind of a doctor she wanted to be, but we do know she is fond of horses. DORIS MILES must be starting a library at home. Everytime I look at the over due list of books she usually has about ten out. ALZETTA PANDER as a bally-hoo artist she's a wonder. She is per- petually making announcements in the Senior Class.