South High School - Oriole Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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FCDREWORD Looking from the European headlines to the youth of America, we find boys and girls of country lanes and city streets, each day going to school. Each night they swarm back again, They have never seen a gas mask, they do not realize the true meaning of evacuation , to them the droning of a plane above them does not mean death. While tear, horror, pain, and hunger are today's teachers for children over- seas, for thirty million young Americans, school goes on. Because we believe that educa- ion is the hope ot ultimate victory of man's struggle toward civilization, the very backbone of democracy, we have chosen this as our year- book's theme- ----DEMOCRACY THROUGH EDUCATION. The beam of peace he laid, While kings looked on, afraid.

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CCNTENTS Page Foreword . . . . . 3 I Dedication . . . . . 4f5 - Staff ......... . . . 8410 Administration ............. 1 1-17 Commencement Program .... 18 Democracy Through Education 19 Graduates ................ 20-38 Activities . . . . .39s52 Clubs ..... ..... 5 3-B0 Sports ........ . . .61e74 Class Prophecies . . . . . .75-77 Calendar ..... . . .78-79 Class Days .... . . .8OA81 Class Plays .... ...82e83 - Snooper Snaps . . . . . .84s85 I Le Bal Tabarin . . . . . 86 Faculty Bowling .... . . 87 I Cartoons ...... . . .88s89

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DEDICATIGN The young bird first attempting the magnificent yet horrifying feat of flying looks feebly to his elders for hope and confidence. He expects it as inevitable, this moral stimulus necessary to steel his courage to the task ahead. And the adolescent of the human species is much akin to the untried ledging. He, too, is un- tested and ignorant, and he looks to his elders for the mighty idol and solace in the wisdom and strength of his forebears. In a prominent place on the roster of man's strong and sagacious forbears is listed the name, Mary Holland. Her friendship, innate truth, and simple grace reflected a character wholly beautiful. Her innumerable virtues of love, self-denial, and altruism helped produce a finer race. Her devotion, to all whose lives were touched by hers, was complete and final. The belief in the utter goodness for man helped her probe the depths of character of young people. She lived fully, gave to others a full life, and Received one in return . And so it is to this noble soul, now relieved of all the pettiness of this base earth, we, the South High class of 1941, dedicate this testament of our high school l years.