South High School - Oriole Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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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

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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. MQCDONALD MR. HUTCHISON ln our travels last summer we were privileged to visit for the first time the majestic Canadian Rockies. As we were about to enter the Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, we noticed inscribed over the gateway these words: The mountains shall bring peace to the people. Truly this was our experience as we sojourned among those eternal hills. The majesty and grandeur of the snow-capped peaks, the glaciers flowing from the ever- lasting snows, the fresh verdure of the woodlands as they crept upward to timberline, the serenity of the placid lakes cradled in the vast expanse of valleys, the mighty rush of the rivers as they danced and glistened in spark- ling cascades, leaped from vertical cliffs in mighty water- falls and moved ever onward with swift current to three mighty oceans-all this brought to us peace and quiet confidence. If the peoples of this troubled world could withdraw for short intervals from the strife and turmoil of these per- plexing days to the majesty and beauty of nature with which our land is so abundantly blessed, assuredly quiet and confidence would be inspired in our souls and peace and security would reign among the nations. Graduates, as you step from the portals of this school to enter the work-a-day world, may you frequently find periods of rest and refreshment where the strength of the hills shall be yours also. Sincerely, Charles W. MacDonald To the 1947 Graduates: It has been said that man- kind is now confronted with a common enemy, the igno- rance and confusion of man's own heart. The whole world is in a post war period of reconstruction and stabil- ization. We appear to be at the threshold of a new age, the Atomic Age, the potentialities of which arouse both fervent hopes and gravest fears. The most ardent desire in the hearts of men is permanent peace and security while suspicion, distrust, and misunderstandings prevail in all parts of the world. These in brief are some of the abnormal conditions and difficult problems that confront you as you go forth to fill your respective places in the present day world. This situation presents a challenge to be met with confidence and determination rather than dis- couragement or dispair. It will require sound judgments arrived at through clear, honest, and unselfish thinking. You now have an educational foundation upon which to build these powers of thought and judgment. Your role is not only to exercise these powers in your own right but to also aid in clearing confusion from the minds of others less fortunate than you in their opportunities and abilities to become enlightened. I congratulate you all and wish you the fullest rneasure of success and happiness. Harry C. Hutchison Counselor-Coordinator South Vocational High School C129