Snowden High School - Aquila Yearbook (Library, PA)

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FIRST ROW Cleft to Right' Virginia Hoberstock Mary Strimlan Agnes Slovak Eris Gene Bashor Ruth Schang Bette Cingel Mary Hollerich Helen Matias Martha Hindman SECOND ROW Miss Maloney William Trax Joy Schang Phyllis Schultz Dorothy Hale Cecilia Harbutz Jean Riggs Virginia Cusic Mildred Albert Mr Weaver THIRD ROW William Caldwell Charles Spencer Howard Sedan Domenic Pom: Paul Droder John Ambrose Charles Peternel John McConkey Anthony Ferrell: ,MA 52 wg As the seniors of 44 it is at last our privilege to publish the Aquila This year our theme is Education for Victory Today we are struggling for the preservation of the four freedoms Free dom of Religion Freedom of Speech Freedom from Want and Freedom Sciences and all our other studies we were learning to educate ourselves for Victory and the period of transition that is ahead of us Armed with the expert ences that grew out of our sublect contacts we hope to be able to meet all our future problems with courage endurance and success for we realize that we shall be the future leaders of this Democracy Our chief concern at this time is cooperating in all the drives such as the collection of paper fats rubber and metals that will help our government supply our fathers brothers and relatives with the necessary ammunition that they need to bring an end to this war The buying of stamps and bonds is another one of our prolects that we have carried on with pride In preparing our Aquila we the staff are grateful for the many experi ence advantages that it has given us We have become closely associated with one another and we have learned through working together for a common pur pose the good that comes out of a united front We have become more confident of ourselves and have learned of the values that accrue from concerted action Our kind advisors Miss Maloney and Mr Weaver will never be forgotten They have helped us with our problems and have graciously given us guidance and suggestions of help in the buildinq of Our Book To all those who have helped us make Our Aaunla of l944 a best seller we wish to extend to you our hand of thanks Dorothy Hale 7 . - 11 11- - - - - 11 - 11 - ' ll ' ' Il - - 11 - ' ' ll ll ll Il ll Il , , , from Fear. Throughout our courses of Mathematics, English, History, Civics, , . I . , , 1 - - - - l - - 11 - ff , , , ' ll ' ll ' F I I I - I . I f - I ' fl . ' ll ll II ,

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6 MCH, fL0l'L Ucforg As long as Ameruca provudes good free educatuon for uts future men and women as us done here at Snowden Townshup Hugh 'chool we need have no fear of losung thus war or of bowung to any other obstacle whuch may face our great country un the future A country un whuch the people are well educated need never fear of gettung themselves un the graspung clutches of a crazed ductator Many belueve that an educatuon merely means the learnung of the three R readun rutun and ruthmetuc However thus thus us not so un school we have learned the three R s but we also learn many many helpful thungs whuch wull be of great use to us at sometume or another durung our luves A good teacher trues to help each pupul to overcome hus shortcomungs the chuef of these us shy ness As an example the solucutung for advertusements for thus very book us a very good experuence whuch grooms us for contacts un busuness We are also taught to have a sense of responsubuluty Through our Amerucan educatuonal system we learn to become good sports As an educated people we guve a great deal of thought to a number of thungs lf we were ugnorant we would be content to let thungs come and go wuth mentalutues us very easuly led by an untellugent person uust as uf they were a herd of cattle That us what happened un Germany before the war We must remaun well educated un order to protect our precuous herutage lt us not easy for us the Senuors to say good bye to Snowden where for the past four years our educatuon has been takung form Although the educatuon has been complete ut has not been wuthout uts lughter moments football and basketball games dances plays partues assemblues etc Wuthout a luttle pleas ure muxed un to balance the more seruous parts our educatuon would not mean quute so much to us Our hugh school curruculum us very sumple as compared to the course of studues laud down for the dufferent branches of our Armed Forces In many of the branches they start you out by sendung you to a college or to an unuversuty then you get a lot of untensuve specual traunung and euther you get ut or you get ou In ugh school we get plenty of chances to make up work that we have not done as well as ut should have been done Hugh school us a fine steppung stone to the vugorous lufe comung up for most of us as a member of Uncle Sam s school The nuneteen fourty four edutuon of the Aquula wull soon be travelung to all pounts of the globe lt wull fall unto the hands of Our Sons of Snowden and to the Sons from the many other schools of the world To Our Sons and Theur Sons we do hereby deducate thus edutuon of our Aquula Paul Droder 4 J Ol Ist - ul 1 ' - ll 1 - - . I . . . I . ver little thou ht- I norance is bliss. A mob made of eo le who have low Y 9 9 P P t. h'