South High School - Oriole Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Mr. MacDonald To the Graduates: As you step from the portals of South High to schools of higher learning or into your vocation, you enter a world that rapidly is being disillusioned as to the fruits of victo- rious Warfare. The allied nations, emerging triumphantly from the Second World War, with high hopes for the es- tablishment of a just and lasting peace, have been driven almost to despair by the suspicion and dissention which has arisen among them. Governments are preplexed, in- dustry is in turmoil, clash and tension exist on every hand. In this time of confusion and bewilderment may you charter a steady course by laying hold of those eternal verities which cannot be shaken--meekness and humil- ity, expressed by strength brought under disciplineg sym- pathetic understanding, manifested in tolerance, kindness and brotherly lovep and patience, born of a steadfast faith that righteousness eventually Will prevail. Faithfully yours, Charles W. MacDonald Director of Activities To the Graduating Class: Your high school program has been carried out dur- ing an uncertain and trying period. The Worries and sor- rows born of War have been felt in many homes. Employ- ment opportunities at high Wages have been plentiful and tempting. Distractions and conflicting attractions have beset your high school life. In spite of these oppos- ing forces you have completed what you started. In this respect you stand out from those Whose names once ap- peared on your class rolls but who have since dropped by the Wayside. You attained your goal and, in the life you are about to enter, this will be significant. ln parting, together with the success We all Wish you, may I urge that you maintain throughout your life's Work the persistence of purpose that has played an important part in bringing you the distiction of now being a member of this graduating class. Harry C. Hutchison Counselor-Coordinator South Vocational High School 12

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TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1946: I wish to extend congratulations to each of you. You have completed a goal-a goal towards which many have started but, because of various causes, have never completed. You are graduating from High School. Hundreds and thousands of returned veterans, real- izing the needs and necessity of a high school education and diploma, are now striving to gain the end that you have obtained. These ex-service men being mature of mind and experience now realize that knowledge is ne- cessary and desirable in a country that has advanced and moved forward on knowledge. You, through your efforts and determination, have obtained something priceless to many a returned service- man. Hundreds start high school but very few graduate -you now become a member of a selected group-the high school graduate. Do not stop learning--move forward-gain more knowledge-this country needs you and you need Amer- ica-the Beautiful. I again congratulate you. E. G. Burns Mr. BURNS The important day for which you as Seniors have MR. MOORE Guidance Counselor been waiting has come. That of course is the day of your graduation from South High School. We are all glad that yours is once again a peace time graduating class. When we see pictures of the war-torn countries across the seas our hearts are filled with conflicting emotions,-we are both hopeful and despairing, both optimistic and pessi- mistic. Like a pendulum our hearts swing from one to the other,-hopeful that peace will be lasting, fearful that the seeds of future wars are being sowng optimistic be- cause there are signs that at last an organization of na- tions has been formed which we hope will be capable of maintaining the peace of the world, pessimistic because there are still so many evidences of human selfishness. High school seniors in these United States, however, need not be pessimistic for long. They need only look at our beautiful country unravaged by war after four long years of that war and then determine to do their part in rebuild- ing our country and the entire world to make both better and finer places in which to live. Iohn l-I. Moore Guidance Counselor ll

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I February and June Class Sponsors Mr' H' M' Black Mr. W. L. Wieqmcn Miss Edythe Davidson Faculty Sponsors i Year Book Miss Frost MT- Peters N Mr. MacDonald Miss Thomas 13