Snowden High School - Aquila Yearbook (Library, PA)

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DL 8l l!L1lLlfLg l LlfLCL 6L J I? CMAQ! The greatest responsubuluty of any socuety us the educatuon of chuldren and youth For many years our great Commonwealth has set up munu mum courses of study to be taught to chuldren and youth un free elementary and hugh schools Came the war and emphasus on these courses of study changes Many suggested courses are put on the market We solucuted and secured the cooperatuon of the Puttsburgh Coal Company and theur faculutues to operate courses un weldung and machune shop practuce We secured certufl catuon for competent unstructors and offered courses un electrucuty and raduo We planned to do well all teachung of our chuldren and youth and deflnutely to encourage them to take more math and scuence Thus wuth some code work and lam sessuons un varuous fields aumed to help our youth fit deflnutely unto the armed forces pro gram has been our procedure We are very gratufled wuth the accomplush ments of those who have uouned the armed forces from our schools They have competed favor ably wuth youth from other sectuons of our Com monwealth and from other States un our Unuon We flnd them among the ranks and among the offlcers We flnd them un all duvusuons of our great army They are takung theur place wuth other youth and doung theur part well Among the many thungs that makes us proud of them us the wholesome attutude they take toward theur work and the tureless energy they put unto ut We wull never forget the enthusuastuc heartfelt trubute they pay to our schools when they vusut and wrute us Only such can come from the chuldren wuth whom we labor un Snowden Whether ut us a scrap druve or the sale of stamps and bonds there us no dufference Only the mentuon of ut us needed Then there us the fightung spurut of our port of our student body whether un vuctory or defeat us marvelous Such loyalty us not often found Such spurut wull produce good men and women It has a great bearurug on brungung nearer the day to whuch we all look forward the day of peace The teachers of our chuldren and youth must possess an attutude of servuce a servuce to the chuld the youth and the communuty lt was the Great Teacher who sand that to be chuef you must be servant By servuce we of the staff and our product are deflnutely contrubutung to the wunnung of the war L R CUTSHALL l I I I - - - - - teams, whether it is victory or defeat. The sup- 6

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0 JJQQZ5 f 44 h ve establushed for ourselves a motto As the graduatmg Class o we a EDUCATION FOR VICTORY We have tried to follow thus slogan to our utmost abuluty throughout our Hugh School career A we de art from you and set forth to prepare for the uncertaun future 5 P I t erve and u hold these these :deals wall stall be nrt our hearts He p us o pres p :deals ducatlon for Vlctory efend our homes Umfy our country onserve all war materuals ry our best nterest ourselves In the countrys welfare bserve all details ever gave up or freedom sacrlflce btam a good education eady ourselves for service allantly tlght for peace nslst on liberty ltlzenshlp value above all hunk of others flrst ffer our service each for success ueld our best Mtldred Albert 5 ow E . . D C . Advance Amefawn Way of lite T I . , O . N . F . 0 . . R . V . . I . . C. . T . O . R Y.

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Dear Sensors You are to be complimented on your cholce of a theme for thus years Yearbook Education for Vactory We here at Snowden have been constantly aware of our responslbllutues for pat ternmg your program and planmng your expern ences so that you Sensors would enloy a max: mum of opportunity for carrying on your busl ness of Educataon for Vnctory during and after the war We have through group dnscusslon planmng executmg and appralsmg attempted to gave you opportumtnes for partncupatlon an vltal sntuatnons comparable to those that you wall be called upon to cope wuth euther nn the Servace or un clvuluan lufe We have mtentuonally planned your actlvn hes so that you could expenence the wholesome ness that comes out of doing Service for others whether It be for those actlvely engaged an the defense of our democratuc way of Infe or for those less fortunate who are servlng our boys on the home Ime of defense You have enthusu astncally entered Into every Service actlvlty that has been suggested to you enther by way of a natnonal organnzatuon request or by way of a local request There has been no task too large for you to take on and drnve ahead wuth untul your goal had been reached-and then some We have contunually concerned ourselves with the challenge of fortlfyung you physncally mentally socially and splrltually In your school day work program we have done our level best to apply a balanced sense of proportuon un tume allotments so that the overdevelopment of one of the forts would not tend to weaken one of our other Innes of defense We have attempted to gnve you a work play program that would not make Johnny a dull boy or Mary a lustless gurl Throughout your four years with us we have planned your problems so that you were repeat edlv called upon to solve through expernence Iufe s sutuatuons We have done thus with a vnew to developung In you a personal sense of values wnth regard to the Importance of consustently Inv mg by a code of conduct that Includes on your dauly duet punctuallty accuracy and dispatch Too your teachers have been mmdful of the fact that thus war wall not be won on the battlefields but In the hearts of men and women They have Iukened your mlnds to a parachute they functuon only when they are opened Blessed wnth patnence and perseverance they have been fauthful an carefully unfolding your Olftlflffe Ol 6l,l flfl'L 267, UQ? l Ll'LCLl96L mnnds so that you Sensors could basl out equup ped wuth an unsplred Inot complacentl sense of securuty and posse They have served you well as your lleutenants nn waglng war on war Itself At the moment I can thunk of four guude posts waving green lanterns that may serve you along Infes lourney Let us never shy away from wantung to Learn even though It may not be along our chosen field of endeavor Let us not throw nn the sponge when the solutxon calls for Improvlslng let us develop and scatter 0 respect for those de servmg urregardless of thenr fields of Service Let us be branded as searchers after the facts rather than purveyors of gossip Even when you have crossed our portals for the last tlme as a full tume student we want you to know that our business IS Servuce and when you are nn need of a clearang house we are stall solncutous of your patronage Suncerely hopmg that we have helped to Condmon you for Servuce now and after the War I remam As always, Your frnend and counselor MARTIN E WEAVER 1 , I ' I t- ' 0 9 1 I -:Tw U' I , I . I . I . . - I . I ' -,,- . . . . I D 1. ' H - . . 2. ' ' . . . ' 4. a 1- ' , I 7