South Park High School - Dial Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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An american reflects 5 xi at ell' :fi .afar ti' ,XB gat? ,- '. it N -1 11,8 T X Xxx, An abbot, alone, with nothing in his knapsack but a little bread and a flask of water, set out upon the road to Granada. He sought an audience with Isabella of Castile to win from her a promise to lend her heart and her purse to the support of a daring sea voyage. The man who had enkindled his imagination remained in the monastery to await the abbot's return Upon the outcome of such a simple act hung the fate of a nation whose destiny did not begin to take shape until three centuries later lronically enough in the middle of the fifteenth century the finger of fate was pointing toward a new world for Columbus sailed westward to reach the lndies all his maps and his plans bore out this fact and the land that lay between that tremendous dual continent washed by two oceans was only an accident in the course of the voyage Yet out of that land out of that accident of discovery has emerged a country whose name is fraught with meaning both for those who envy and fear her strength and those who seek her protection We grow so accustomed to the story of our countrys discovery and its unparalleled rise to power and the name America is said and read so many times in the daily pursuit of our lives that we must review from time to tim the events in her history the legend that has grown up about her the strirring deeds of her heroes the natural beauty and wealth with which Cod has blessed her the paradox of her discovery in order that we may hear the music in the name America taste anew its flavor and feel a pride welling up within us whenever it strikes us afresh that America is our birthright and our heritage Through the years men of every race creed and color have sought peace and liberty on American shores This nation was founded upon the principle of freedom The concept of freedom is very ancient and precious lt runs like a golden thread through the fabric of the history of mankind We have becom a melting pot where the ebullience of the Irish the sobriety of the Teuton the patriotic fervor of the Englishman the passionate enthusiasm of the southern European blend together to make America great The intellectual and the unschooled the manor lords and the tillers of the soil the nobles and the peasants have learned to live side by side in a land where east and west have met Out of this unpar alleled fusion has arisen a new man e American For this man there is hope no matter how disheartened he may be ne is daring and his courage is unsurpassed because he has blessings on which to expend his daring and courage The American looks to the future with optimism because he knows there is a C-od above to be his guide From the beginning our nation has prospered until now one hun dred and seventy five years later we can match ff fait? Tm Qiffx any nation in industry and humane advance 10 . - I ' ' 'gswswg ' -,Q ---t Q - 1 . s 3 -Q5 so ' ' - - . l - to ' ' h ' ' 1. is A ff , 1 , l , Q 5, . E . , . 5 , ggfri. gif 1 . ' . --r . 1 , I ' ' , 3' U I I l I ' if fly? 'N - . ' - 't-. - , - A 33 l 'Y . ret -if is T ., - A . ,X .NM ' fl of ' ' ' WY ff I t,Ml.i,,Tn A ' viii. Q. tx H 'A . Al Us, F 1' . ' . .ri-,. A I U . ' s n . 4 . ,Q ,,...h . . he 'Q 3, , ,v , ' ff e Q ' ' . . Ii.. '

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IN MEMORIAM EDITH ELDRIDC-E Teacher of Secretanal Subjects South Park Hugh School ' , . . . - , . l ' 4 ' ' ll l ' - 'I 1 . I , ' ly l l 2 v L , ll ' l l l l ll ' l -1 - 11 U ' I L 3 , . . . l 'J'11v1n14v1--1--1--1n1v1-tx:1-111 11.11-102010101 -:ox 1014101n:trinity1011,11-:ull-10:u11-1-010:010:U14-in:A-1010101011111-J Appointed October l2 l93l Dled May 23 l95l We have been frzends together On May 23rd Fdnth Eldridge passed away saddenlng all those with whom she llved and wlth whom she worked For nineteen years Mass Hdridge had been one of the members of south Park Hugh Schools faculty teaching shorthand and typewrxtmg bouth Park High School feels grieved beyond measure and mourns the loss of one of l1er loyal workers one devoted to truth to duty to her famlly to her neighbors and to her rellglon who was ever courteous affable and genlal one who was efflclent vet quxet and undemonstratlve who alwavs gave courage to the youth of the school dlllgently andlng them with her valuable and practical advice one who assisted m the preparation of hundreds of young men and women for the responsible and Important dutles of secretarlal llfe and who was regarded with great respect by all one who will be mlssed by those who were wont to enjoy her generoslty her ever fresh and youthful sympathy one who wlll be missed by all those who found ID her not only a wlse counselor but a loving and sympathetic companion Miss Ialdrldges useful llfe ns closed she has ceased from her labors And nt would Indeed be a sad commentary upon fldelltv to dutv lf one could not add and her works do follow her May she enter the eternal rest which her falth charity and good works haye mented Nllss Eldrldges memorv wlll be eyer cherished by the faculty the alumnl and the students of south Park Hlgh School Sleep szlent frzend zn slumber sweet And calm be thy repose 9

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ment. We have so prospered because of the tireless energy and integrity of this new race We offer to all those who seek our shores a freedom that burns wuth such a steady glow that facusm com munusm none of the usms have been able to quench its flame America has endured as a haven of refuge for the downtrodden nd oppressed Inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty for all to read are these words Guve me your tured your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teemung shore Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me I luft my lamp beside the golden door And the lamp held hugh flings a ribbon of light across the sea a path that beckons to the promised land Enthusiasm and resolute determunatuon are found nowhere on thus planet un such measureless quantity as un our own natuve land The tireless energy of the puoneer has unspured the American to throw aside frontiers and push constantly onward to new horizons Thus inheritance derives from those who furst duscovered the west they sailed to the land of the setting sun only to fund a new sun rusung to shune eternally upon streets of gold We are the heurs the legatees not only of udeas and udeals not only of a boundless stretch of mountain valley and plain not only of ur varuous races who peopled and nurtured them but also and thus us our unspuratuon of those men of herouc statur wuthout whom the hustoruc experiment that us America would have fauled and gone down to sugnal defeat We are the heurs of courageous men of Cod who charted our unland seas and ruvers and furst planted the seed of fauth un a new world of a Washungton who out of the nadur that was Valley Forge led and set hus fellow men upon the path to undependence of a ackson who puaced his trust un th common man and found hum not wantung of a Luncoln who out of a brotherly strufe evolved and gave magnificent expressuon to the brother sung and rhapsoduzed America the m n of poetry and song men of genius who d v loped our natural resources and our industries the laborer who built America the puoneer wom n who tended the hearth and fostered the home All thus and more us woven unto the fabruc of our country Threads of gold they are undeed thr ad that have become so untrucately woven unto the t xture that they ullum unate the whole pattern as uf renewed and sustained by some unner spiritual lueht 11 a L . ' ' , . I I , . . Q I . . 1 hood of all men. We are heirs to those who have f . . b Q . ' ' e e I I - 'r . 2 . Q N ,ki ' . 3 s 5 fi! Q ' . . , D . I 1 , -L ?