South High School - Oriole Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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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

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MR. BURNS MR. MOORE Guidance Counselor TO THE GRADUATING CLASSES OF 1947 A short time, and you will become a part of a great Alumni-you will be an Alumnus of South High School. You will be mature. What is maturity? It is the ability to see a iob through. It is the inherent desire always togive more than is asked in a given situation. Maturity repre- sents the capacity to cooperatep to work with others, to work in an organization and to work under authority. - With maturity comes the thought of service. We have been too much inclined to let our thoughts rest upon what we judge to be our rights, without giving equal weight to the recognition of our duties. There is no room in the modern world for easy indifference to the world's needs: we are all our brother's keeper. As mature, intelligent people, let us work together to make the world worthy of all the sacrifice that twice in a generation has been spent to save it. . E. G. Burns The seniors of 1947 are once again graduating at a time when the United States is at peace. Although the actual peace treaties have not yet been signed it is hoped they will be in the near future. The dictionary says, in addition to the fact that peace is freedom from international hosti1ities, qthat peace is harmony or concord between individuals, freedom from personal strife or quarrels, or amicable personal rela- tions. The fact that a nation is not at war with another nation does not. necessarily mean that peace prevails within that nation. So it behooves each one of us to de- termine that we will do our part to preserve peace within the bounds of our own nation,-peace with our friends, peace within our family, peace in labor and business re- lations. This after all is the beginning of world peace. If we can build up a strong nation not torn by strife we can show the world that we are ready to do our part to build up World peace. In Theodore Hoosevelt's words: Unless this world is made a good place for all of us to live in, it won't be a good place for any of us to live in. Iohn H. Moore Counselor llll