Snowden High School - Aquila Yearbook (Library, PA)

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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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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'

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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