Snowden High School - Aquila Yearbook (Library, PA)

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Dear Mr. Weaver: It has been a tradition for the Aquila to in- clude a letter from you to the Senior Class. Al- though dedicated to the graduates, they were eagerly read by the undergraduates as well. We had the opportunity to read three of your letters, and have obtained from them many gems of humble wisdom that have aided us in our growth as young citizens and students. This year we have decided to write you a letter. We know we shall disturb the sacred stream of tradition, but perhaps in its stead we can seed a new tra- dition, one through which the students can tell you, Mr. Weaver, of the fruitfulness of their experience with you. We have many things to thank you for, many little and big things that have all added up to a precious field of knowledge. VV e know that we shall use this knowledge all through life, and our lives will be more gracious and richer be- cause of it. We offer our first thanks here, a small thought compared to the many silent ones of the future. We want to thank you for listening to our problems and your willingness to aid us in find- ing their solution. You have helped us create an understanding of authority that we shall re- member as benevolent and democratic. VV e want February 21, 1952 to thank you for accepting our young, eager, brashness, and helping us to mould from it a more purposeful inquiring mind, one that is bet- ter prepared to cope with the world and its ad- versities. You told us to remember our duties, and to put them before our rights. We now know that our rights are only the rewards of our well- executed duties, a giving and receiving that is the fountainhead of our democracy. We shall be better citizens because of this, and both we and the world shall gain, for we shall be happy and useful members of our community. We shall remember, and carry with us, the warm glow of meaning you gave to the words of courage, perseverance, humility, faith and jus- tice. No longer empty words, now each one is an inseparable part of our character. Above all, Mr. Weaver, we wish to thank you for the many precious gifts that escape our awareness. They are the things that we have unconsciously assimilated through our associa- tion with you, the things that have made us successful seniors, but more, successful citizens. May God bless you, and keep you. Sincerely yours, The Senior Class of 1952

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