Snowden High School - Aquila Yearbook (Library, PA)

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H1StOIY of Semor Class So we are Senrors ready to graduate It took us four years to attarn t'rrs hrghest prnnacle rn our Hrgh School success but these years were rs ell spent and rs ell worth our trme Now we are proud to say we can go out rnto the world and be frne Amerrcans rn thrs world of today As Freshmen we were qurte trmrd and excrted when we entered Hrgh School rn I937 We could hardly rmagrne that we were really here Under the successful gurd ance of Nlrss Clove lVlrss Hoffman and Mr Drsegr we soon overcame our trmrdrty and were ready to go on Our Sophomore year under Mr Drsegr and Mr Burkett was consrdered very quret but a stepprng stone rn our Hrgh School Career Then came our unror year' We were really upperclassmen By Chrrstmas many were wearrng therr class rrngs Ir was a grand sensatronal year Wrth the comrng of May we had our unror Class Play It was a grand hrt One Delrrrous Nrght The outstandrng event was our unror Senror Prom rn May wrth Lee Barrett s Orchestra pro vrdrng the musrc Mrss Clove left us thrs year and was replaced by Mr 'Vlrnnrck thus leavmg Mrss Maloney and Mr Mrnnrck as our unror Class Sponsors And now Senrors' At last me have reached the goal of all our school years' Thrs was the most outstandrng of all our Hrgh School years and one never to he forgotten Under the excellent leadershrp of Mrss Maloney and Mr Weaver our last year was our hrghest achrevement Throughout the year skating partres dances sellrng of trckets for raflles and Chrrstmas Cards helped to support the Senror Fund ln December under the drrectron of Mrss Maloney the Senror Class Play was a gala affarr The crownrng event of the Senror Class of 1941 was the .Iunror Senror Prom grven by the Junrors rn May Most of all Baccalaureate Commencement and last but not least the Washrngton Trrp whrch everyone enjoyed The trrp was Tops for learnrng through experrence During the four years me have attended school our attrtude towards rt has become srncere We have learned to become good Amerrcans and to defend our democracy As our Hrgh School days come to a close our hearts are frlled wrth sorrovs but on the other hand vsrth the excellent gurdance that we have been grxen we should feel assured that we can stand and go out and talce our place rn Educatron for Natronal Defense rn our hearts forever Be C-ood Amerrcans rsrll be our motto Page Tu enty tuso O I , - h A , , , . V - , . J , . J . . . . , , . . . , , . , , . , V , , , , . , -4

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National Defense vs Education Too often 1n our COl1V6I'S3t1OIl vue put Educatlon on one side of our dlscusslon and National Defense on the other In the following few words let us attempt to show that N3tl0H3l Defense and Educatlon work togethei hand 1n glove The first quahty to note IS that both require a plan or a system 1n order to carry on thelr schedules We find that educatlon progresses on a standard set up from the past The same vuth our defense a system and schedule has been determined by a study of past experlences Another quallty about the two IS that one IS definitely related to the other One can not reach 1tS peak unless the other contrlbutes 1tS share Education 1S the baS1S of everythlng Both hold every natlon s lnterest Educatlon is very definltely un1 versal and so It IS with defense All natlons must have some line of pro tectlon or the value of their country vs ould be n1l Could you thmk of what any country would be l1ke if ltS safeguard iust wasnt anymore? What in one gets benefits? From these polnts you can readlly see that the t1tle should have read and instead of versus Now that we haxe convmced ourselves of the necess1ty 1n 1o1n1ng these tvso it would be YVISQ to conslder what good would come of it In our xx orld of heated argument in such trylng times of desperat1on 1n Wh1Ch countues stiess war in times when brotherhood IS a forgotten idea when people no longer feel human and act as barbarous as people of the Caveman age this IS when co operatlon IS imperative Jolning all our foi ces we know that the above two will be very bene ficlal to the Amerlcans of ou1 time ANN CASEY Page Twenty one l 9 - Y. . , . . . . . 9 ' ' . . . . , . the World would our country do without the education from which every- H 97 ' CK !7 7 ' i ' y . . . in s' . s p. , . l 9 9 ' ' . v v y v' - ' 7

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Shots Around the School