South High School - Oriole Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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9913 - KSU EW? Failma x feel ZQSJZP ' To Miss Carrie Gilmore, who retires after an active teaching career, we bid farewell. Born near Finleyvill, Pennsylvania, she received her secondary education at Homestead High School. Later Miss Gilmore studied at the Uni- versity of Pittsurgh, earning both her B.A. and M.A. degrees there. She did special work at Columbia University and Penn State. For some years Miss Gil- more taught in schools out of the cityp her first position in the city was at Rogers School. When Herron Hill Iunior High School was opened, Miss Gil- more became a member oi that faculty. Before coming to South High School in September of 1946, Miss Gilmore taught for ten years at Arsenal Iunior High School. Miss Gilmore has always been vitally interested in progressive teach- ers organizations. The Pittsburgh Teachers Association, The State Teachers Association, The National Education Association, The Council of English Teachers, and Phoebe Brashear Club are pleased to have had her as a mem- ber. She worked untiringly upon the new English Course of Study, and was chosen to work with Miss Ethel Centre upon the English book now used in the Pittsburgh High Schools. Miss Gilmore is fond of boys and girls. At present she takes an active part in the work of the Boys' Club at the Bellefield Presbyterian Church. We, the students and faculty, sincerely wish that she may know every happiness in her new lite, and that she may travel to high adventures and new places in her retirement. C37

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Dear Senior: My sincerest congratulations are extended to you for having complet- ed your secondary school program whatever its individual content and obiective. Your name, a part of the roster of the February and Iune classes of l9-46-47, now occupies a place of worthy significance in the history of your school. To an alrea- dy long list of graduates who have been prepared for life and living in an America that has provided gen- erous educational opportunities to its sons and daughters, is added your name. The responsibilities, too, which our America imposes upon each of us for the furtherance of its own destiny and which the world now seems to impose in no inconsid- erable amount, are also yours. Your year-book staff has thought- fully dedicated the annals of your individual school career to that ideal toward which the whole world awk- wardly strives -e PEACE. Your re- sponsibility is to advance such a goal to a place of much more prac- tical significance than have those who have been graduated before you. However, as you face such a responsibility let me adrnonish you to never lose sight of the tremendous sacrifice they are called upon to make and the great debt you owe them for even making it possible for you to have the chance to make the MR. STERLING world of tomorrow a better place in which to live. No individual can wholly work and live to himself any longer. lf he tries to do so his apparent wilful disregard and misunderstanding of his neighbors problems sooner or later undermines his own security, at least temporary chaos results and constant adjustments too often of an expedient nature retard all efforts toward any real peace for any one. Therefore, each of you inust of necessity strike a better balance between earning a living and learning to live, for peace niust first start in the individuals own mind and actions before it will work even reasonably well in his relationship with his closest associates and neighbors. Ever strive then to understand and develop those interdependent qualities out of which a lasting peace can and must be constructed. Ever strive to energize your actions which can and do become so destructive in time of war to the point where they may be made to be not only an equivalent constructive force for good but even one of greater power for establish- ing a really vital World-wide brotherhood of man. Even partial success over and above that obtained by those who have preceeded you will carry further the torch of faith and hope alluded to in the following noble lines of Tenny- son. Yet l doubt not through the ages one unceasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened by the process of the suns. May a fair share of that success be a very real part of your life. Very sincerely yours, Chester L. Sterling Cltll