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

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the word, I'd like it heard- He taught me to love all, as he did That God-fearing man, I as best I can. say it again- down within. there- my prayer. Thank you, Pat. 2 Farewell Pat Patrick Brennan came to South Park as elevator operator in l9l-f, the year that our school opened its doors for the first time. During the forty-four ensuing years, he became a symbol, and even an ideal. in the minds of three generations of South Parkers: a symbol of devotion to duty. friendliness, and courtesy for above two-score years: the ideal of what a real South Parker stands for. Although he never attended our school, he represented all that is good in South Park. The following is our attempt to say 'l'hanks in the way he would have liked it to be said: 'l'hanks, Pat, for all the things you did for us in the many years that you were here at South Park. You were our friend, our confidant, our advisor. You listened to our plans, our hopes, our ambitions, our failures, and our successes. These may have been little things, but they were big to us. You were big to us, Pat. You were a true South Parker in every sense of the word. You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten. You will live in the hearts of South Park- ers for generations to come. For, upon the wall beside the elevator in which you faithfully served your school for over half your life, we have placed a plaque to serve your memory. It is inscribed :ls follows: Ein illllvmnriam 1Hatrirk 31. Brennan Svrrurh Stnuth Mark High Srhnnl 1514-1958 ln the future. when we stop and read these few. humble words. we will think of you and of all you meant to us and to our school. W'e miss you, and yet, life Ilttlst go on. Farewell. Pat. -Pflllf Dr' Fm'1'rl 4 No, he wasn't a teacher as we use But he did teach me something, and To spread happiness and friendship We've all said it before, now well Thank you, Pat, from deep I know, dear God, he'll always be In the elevator, in my heart, and in ' -Barbara Mack

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Foreword I mark the hours that shine. Throughout the scholastic year 1958-1959, there have been many bright moments for South Park. Our school received city-wide attention and respect for its standard of dress, for the excellence of attendance at its football games and the precision of its band and drill units at these games, for the marked increase in its school attend- ance and the scholastic pride that increase displays, for the high degree of spirit and co-operation among its students, for the aura of success that surrounded all of its endeavors. We, its students, are fully responsible for the attention and respect given to our school and should pride ourselves thereupon. One of the purposes of The Dialu is to record for us these intra- and extra- school activities and to give us some insight into the question of how an eventful year, such as this, could ever have come to be. Our yearbook will recall to mind one year, ten years, and even thirty years hence the shining hours we spent at dear old South Parki' and will serve as a source of pride and pleasure on the day when, after a long life of earning a living and raising a family, we can sit back, relax, and bring back long forgotten memories of youth by paging through '6The Dial - l959. Truly, The Dial should be cherished by everyone. But the shining hours we spent at South Park should be cherished most of all. Our high school days will do much to shape our future lives, especially in the choice of a career. The way we have spent our time at South Park, the courses and activities we have pursued, will help make up our minds for us on many questions, such as a choice of college, the chances of a well-paying job, and military service. Thus, it is meant that 'gThe Diall' should serve primarily as a tangible record of our years at South Park, our shining hours. And who of us can deny that it fully lives up to its purpose in this respect? For, when we look through The Dial - 1959,' and read of our accomplish- ments and see ourselves on the Honor Roll or on the football team or on the debating team or in the Slide Rule Club or in any other phase of school life, we shall say to ourselves: I had a full, rich life at South Park. I did much and accomplished much. I spent my time wisely. I had fun. And this is as it should be. I mark the hours that shine. -Paul De Forest 3

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Qsbsiasvwt f ' r 4 2Qsfyu1Ys'f'P i if ' rkssizi. ' Esther M. enkin .ua-f Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. -Henry W. Longfellow We are all agreed on two things: that South Park is anything but a sandy waste, and that Esther M. jenkins has left well-defined footprints all over the place. Were she to make a record like ours of her shining hours here, it would be an enviable one. Let us go back over her teaching career and list just a few of her outstanding contributions to the school. Few people know that she designed and made the robes which the three kings wear for each succeeding Christmas pageant. Not only that, the costumes of pages, shepherds, and angels are alike the result of her artistry and her nimble lingers. How beautifully she planned and executed this project is evidenced by the fact that she was asked to design, and did, the robes for the partici- pants in the first Christmas pageant given at Kensington High School. Furthermore, the sisters of lTYouville College came to South Park for consultation with Miss -jenkins that they might profit by her ideas for the robes for the annual Christmas pageant at their own school. We also owe to this gifted teacher our precious South Park banner, the large red and black one, and our red and black, gold-fringed satin school flag. D Quiet, unassuming, for years head of the home economics department in the night school divi- sion and of the sewing department in the day school division of South Park High School, Miss jenkins worked steadily, organizing courses, teaching people who knew nothing at all of sewing how to sew, and directing those who did in the further fascinating intricacies of this truly feminine art. The present Supervisor of Homemaking of the Buffalo Board of Education, Miss Arline I.. Grefe, was but one of her many pupils. Through all this, Miss jenkins had time to counsel and guide South Park's senior girls. And, as the years have passed, girl after girl, grown to womanhood, has been and will be able serenely and efficiently to adjust herself to the varying demands of her life because it has been her good fortune to have known and worked with Esther Marie jenkins. Miss jenkins' loyalty to her school and to her colleagues and her interest in the well-being of her charges has been boundless. She has been instrumental in gaining innumerable opportunities for others, both in the field of education and of industry. Her many philanthropies have been known, in most cases, only to herself and to their recipients. As long as South Park's shining hours are marked, the memory of Esther M. Jenkins will be a steady glow. She toiled, . . . . . . . to leave as her bequest An added beauty to the earth. -Whittier 5