Sunbury High School - Torch Yearbook (Sunbury, PA)

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Principal’s Message FREDERICK PADGETT Principal I leidelberg College, A.B. Bucknell University, M.A. When this book comes into your possession, you will have one or two more years to prepare for your life work or will, as a senior, be ready to end your public school experiences. With all looking toward the completion of your school work, it is wise to pause and say—and then WHAT? You can consider college, marriage, or just go to work. Being an American at least makes it possible lor you to have a choice. Would it not be a wise thing to do to think things over and look around? Remember it is where you are going and where you arrive that counts, not where or what you leave behind. For the present, Uncle Sam may take priority over any other choice you may make. Or perhaps we should say that military service should be added to your list of choices. Probably you want to make money—a lot of it. All right, go ahead and make money. But remember other people are trying to make money too. We have many examples of young people who did make money. Success stories are all around you. These people made plenty of money, but don’t forget that they had original ideas and knew the meaning of hard work. Yes, you can make money. But let's put it this way. Money for its own sake is a curse. Money for what it can produce and do for others is a blessing. Go ahead—make money, but also learn how to live. Why is it that one person, demonstrating no brilliance, comes through with notable success, while the genius with a legion of talents ends up by being an also-ran? The difference lies in their respective sense of values, ambitions, and comparative will to do. Consider those who were successful and continued so throughout life, and those who made money but did not learn how to live, thus ending as failures. You will experience a whole series of black eyes, skinned elbows, and heart- breaks. How long will you let them last and what will you do about them? Grab a handful of rainbows today, and when trouble, despair, and disap- pointment confront you—when you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. At the close of your school years, a new day awaits you. You are just Beginning. LOIS M. BURGESS Secretary 11 RHODA J. PASSMORE Home and School Coordinator Pennsylvania State University, A.B.

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Seated, Left to Right—William A. Pope, Russell M. Johnston, Helen Schaffer, Donald Treon, William H. Betz, president. Standing—Joseph L. Ray, Jr.; John Eister, Edwin L. Bergstresser, Joseph N. Lawton, Rudolph Rics, J. Fred Jones, Superintendent of Schools; Paul K. Rossi ter. Board of Education Superintendent’s Message J. FRED JONES, Superintendent of Sunbury Area Schools Pennsylvania State University, B.S., M.E. May I congratulate the class of 1958 on its graduation from the Sunbury Area High School. You are about to witness some tremendous changes in educational procedure the like of which were unheard of a few years ago. Sputnik” has had its impact upon American education. People at last are finding out that nothing is as important as an educated and trained individual. Education must receive top priority if we are to retain our status as a leading world power. We have lost world prestige since the launching of the world’s first ground satellite by Russia. Our schools are no longer a luxury but an absolute necessity. The American family-and the American public must decide how great an edu- cational effort is needed to achieve this educa- tional breakthrough, no matter what it costs. The urgency of our time requires that the yardstick for education must be need and not the dollar. The process of enlarging and refining the edu- cational program to meet the changing needs must be accepted by the American people. The con- stant appraisal and improvement of all public services including the schools is not only a right O JO hut a responsibility of everyone. Since the doors to new worlds of knowledge are always opening, may we rededicate ourselves in this decade of decision to our unshaken faith in our public schools, which mean so much to the American way of life. 10

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Faculty Top Row: Bottom Row: GEORGE M. AMERMAN Dickinson College George Washington University World History, Pennsylvania History A.B., LL.B. JAMES E. DOTY Bloomsburg State Teachers College Speech, Speech Therapy B.S. JOHN M. AUTEN Susquehanna University Health and Physical Education B.S. ROBERT W. DRICK Pennsylvania State University Vocational Agriculture B.S., M.S. CHARLES W. COLEMAN . . Mus.B., B.S. Susquehanna University Temple University Music Theory, Band, Orchestra, General Music Supervisor JANET ER1KSON Wilson College English A.B. RUSSELL F. DELP . Vocational Certificate Pennsylvania State LIniversity Vocational Machine Shop KATHARINE M. FERNSLER Pennsylvania State University Bucknell LIniversity English B.S., M.S. EMERSON L. DERR Susquehanna LIniversity Bucknell University Problems of Democracy, Economics A.B., M.A. MARTHA A. FISHER B.Mu., A.B., M.A. Susquehanna LIniversity Bucknell University Guidance Director, School Psychologist