South High School - Oriole Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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WHY THE MELTING POT? l-lere at South l-ligh School are gathered members of twenty- eight nationalities in one great heterogeneous group. The foreign off- spring has been compared to a raw metal. The raw metal is first put into a crucible-the environment. The crucible is then placed in a closed furnace-the school, where the heat--education, melts the metal until it runs like water. The melting purifies the metal and frees it from anything that may have mixed with it. As a result, Lithuanian, Pole, Slav, Italian and Ukranian who have come to- gether in this cauldron have been thrown into mutual relation- ships, have adopted a common way of acting and thinking, and have become aware of the existence of common interests. The stamp of inferiority has been removed from them and they are now feeling the growth of American patriotism as they go forth from the melting pot into the world to meet the challenges that life holds for them.

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N 6 U16 ll .MM ir lll NCE again the ORIOLE flies to us, bringing a record of the combined graduating classes of Feb- ruary, nineteen hundred thirty- four, and june, nineteen hundred thirty-four, at South High School, Tenth and Carson Streets, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania.

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DEDIC TO OUR FOREIGN To those of you who, born on for- eign soil, have dared to venture from your native land, have given up your homes, left your friends and relatives, sev- ered communica- tion, for a time, with many near and dear to you, ATION BORN PARENTS braved ridicule and abuse at the hands of many in order to wander here to America to settle and rear your family as American citi- z e n s, vv e, t h e classes of '34, dedicate this, our Class Book.