South Hills High School - Lives Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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6 THE SESAME sports, true hearts and good fellowship which now prevails at South Hills High School. Let High Standards of our Alma Mater become a pass word and may we in the future look back and feel that each one of us have contributed something to its sup- port. EN COURAGEMENT T0 FRESHMEN Have you contrasted a Senior's idea with a Freshman's idea of his four High School years? The Freshman looks at it as an un- ending period of time. Four years-think of it. The goal is so far away and it seems like a year from one report period to the next. But the Senior as he looks over the four happy years, even though he has had to work hard and burn a little midnight electricity, realizes that the time has been entirely too short. The Freshman looks for- ward to his High School career joyously, but with an inward feeling that it will be four years of hard work and constant grinding, the Senior looking back has a vision of four of the happiest years he has yet known. So hear, Freshmen, what the wise Senior says: First of all it's a great thing to be a High School student, enjoy everything con- nected with it, E's included, you may need an E to put you on the right track. But to have the keenest enjoyment of one's High School days means work. Latin con- jugations, Algebra equations, Historical facts and rules of English cannot be mastered in a minute. They do not come as medicine to be taken in large or small quantities as pre- scribed, but every lesson well prepared be- comes a part of us and what a feeling of real power we have when we know that we have come off victorious. Just as in athle- tics. No football player ever was a star the day he first appeared on the field. He had to work hard and earnestly. He had to know O 0: -18, 8379 1545 C5356 - I J the signals, not partially, but completely and perfectly or he never would have been able to make fine plays. So why not be just as enthusiastic about the game of learning as we are about football. People may not be in the grand stand rooting quite so loudly for us as they do for the football stars yet the echoes of a well rounded High School course sound far into the future success of a young man or a young woman. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Pleasure mixed with study is essen- tial for a complete and well-rounded High School life. Go in for everything, athletics, dramatics, debating, and social activities. Above all get a lot of school spirit, it's the thing that acts like a match to a pile of dry straw. It starts things and keeps them moving. Each day you come to old South Hills you'll like it more and when at last you are a Senior you will be so fond of it that there will be sorrow mixed with the joy of graduation-for graduation means leaving our own South Hills High School. Discouragement is a treacherous thing if you let it conquer you. Don't let it for- Though you are beaten to earth. What's that? Come up with a smiling face It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there-that's the disgrace. Nothing that is worth while and lasting has ever been accomplished in a short space of time or without some sacrifice and labor. The cheap plaster-paris covered shells of the parade day are not like the carefully carved and enduring marble statuary of the Mu- seum. Work and patience are certainly essen- tial to success. You want to be successful, of course you do, so do we as we go out into our new life. And success both in school life and in the business world is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. 9 SYEWLK Q66 P f? m 653 gay 1 I ISV F Gu gf' E534 ' .--. 9 -4 UQ 1 NXQA 1 . 'L J' 5. M . Q-.. ' 2 ' I . :qixdk F3 .Q 5 , pq , -..,f is Q, , Li avg , I Iv , 1 All--'DQ tful 411511 9 iv 5 9, 21 . i4y5. n5 WW ,Q . 1 , Slam!! QL! we ,. .. ljqggj 1 1 Qj e all . ' i' 5' 3' ,539 , 'F ,,

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W 0 OIOQ 2560 0 0 010 0 o x Af ixlaboooolf K ? i Ejlxf m i wif sink L :EWS A0 30 i QC QMS Mitch? A' S l 1- Zeaeaeas- f :ta I I Eraesegegg , 'Qf,'l'i.l:-g3 91' 'ggi x un 1 - I v - L K L' If ' x...-T. 'Ib ,.1' I: Q .5 ' 2 ' 'fl' l l :Q 6 ,- f, I-, I I ,dy Wu b 1 I JAEQW : N24 I 4 t 1 Em il, 1-x ,kg-9 QR w X K Ur SJ ' C ' 1 ' .L -, Et iff. S 'Al I .fl A r-42, It is no longer a secret that many people who are called upon to write, secure clever fellows to prepare public statements for them, sometimes telling young people how to succeed in life. Since we can not always have some one to write for us and since we are not all successful, the task of writing is for many of us a tedious one. We all have our troubles, even our country has its troubles, it is indeed in an uproar. With John McCormick looking for new songs now that the Irish have nothing to cry about, Babe Ruth trying to sing now rather than swing his bat, Disarmament, Prohibition, and the Russian question bobbing up, some- thing ought to be done. Fully twenty-five million persons, before throwing away their recent New Year's cards, rubbed their fingers over them to see if they really were en- graved. Friends am I right? I am, that isn't all. Some Senior A girls, through their inability to concentrate on a civics test, con- nected Charlie Chaplin with the State Militia. And last but not least, faithful teachers are wearing away their youth and beauty trying to get some students to study. What can be done to change all this? What are our re- formers doing? A few New Year's resolu- tions might ease the situation. You may not trifle with resolutions, you may not believe in them. Still they might help solve our question if seriously made and faithfully kept. Think it over my friend. Don't tell us you come from Pal-where nobody thinks. The New Year looks bright and clear at present. It should be the best year of our lives from every standpoint. School will help it to be, if we have some purpose here. Let us have a worthy aim and purpose in school. Let us strive to work diligently to some end. We need not hope to be the President of the United States but we need to be somebody worth while. Then, you know we are fortun- ate in having all that is conducive to learn- ing, why not take advantage of our opportun- ities? We may not all win. Yet a part of our ambition can be realized. Common sense will help us greatly. a It has been known to build bridges and to destroy cities. It can place us above the multitude if we only stop to use it. Let us aim high, work hard, and win. We can't possibly be a loser, there's even pleasure in the pursuit. OUR ALMA MATER At certain stages in the lives of all people, events take place which help to shape their destiny in life. Graduation from high school is one of the critical points, it is the parting, of the ways, and years later when happy, thoughts of the past enter our mind, our high school days will stand out prominently. To my mind high school is the true Alma Mater standing out more prominently than grade school or college, for the four years spent in high school is usually the period in which we accept certain ideas and look at things from a definite viewpoint, our minds become moulded and we seldom change even in later life, and thus high school is the true fostering mother who builds the characters of all who come to her. Now after we have left school there comes to us a craving to return again to our Alma Mater, especially during the holiday season when home coming is one of the joys of life, will we return to an institution of which we will be proud, will we keep the high stand- ards which have been set up by those who have gone before us, will we return to an in- stitution proud of us because of our conduct while we were accepting her benefits. Now is the time to stop and consider these things and come to a decision. No matter how long our remaining time in school may be, one semester or five, now is the time to step in and help create and foster that atmosphere of sincerity in work, clean

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