Swatara High School - Yearbook (Oberlin, PA)

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4 THE SWATARA SWATTER-Swatava Township High School rgxuwwcw mvmmagv Ambition MBITl0Nl That desire of power and foresight of the human mind, regarding career planning in future life work, is something that every man, every woman, and every boy and girl should possess. They should come to realize that the greatest factor and gatef way to success is the possession of that inward feeling of future power called ambition. Then secondly Cfor those who have acquired such an ambitionb to carry it out and make the best of it, so that someday they may be a success and at the same time render service to their community, to their state, and to their country. But! There are many persons who have not acquired such an ambition but are idle dreamers and aimless drifters. They are like the man who is fighting a defensive battlef parrying with conditions as they exist around himfexposing himself to trustsfletting himself in for a beating. And why? Simply because they haven't the grit to set an ambif tion and conquer it. Simply because they are willing to take chancesfto follow the easy roadfthe fatal line of least resistance. They are drifting along under the impression that life is a dream, and are hoping that someday luck will come flying by, bringing them a better job, a raise in pay, recognition or whatever they wish on a silver spoon. ln other words they think that the world owes them a living, but they seem to forget the other half that they owe the world a life of service, The followers of this previous group, as stated before, are many. They have not realized the only foundations upon which success can be built, they have no true knowledge of its reward, nor realized its help to their community, to their country and to humanity in general. But, on the other hand, there are still some persons on the opposite side of life's path who may be classihed under the ambitious type of manly men and womanly women. They have set before themselves some great obstacle which they intend with their heart and soul to strive at, to work for and to conquer. They have realized that in order to be a success they must be more steady than others, they must be in their chambers while others are at the theatreg they must work while others are idle, concentrate while others dream, and last but not least they have made up their minds that if at first they donlt succeed, they'll try, try, again. To which of these two groups do you belong? The former, consisting of the idle, driftless, and lazy type, or the latter, consisting of the ambitious, energetic and studious type. Surely you should belong to the latter and if you do, you are on the right road to happiness and success which you will soon realize if you not already have. But, in case you belong to the other type, try and convince yourself to shift over. Donlt say, I haven't any luck, or 'BI haven't a chance, or some other alibi, because the world of yesterf day, today or tomorrow never did nor ever will judge one by what he wants to do, but by what he really does. The sources of help, information and knowledge are many. There are all the different types of schools such as the elementary grade schools, high schools, trade schools, colleges and universities together with business schools, public libraries, museums, art galleries and the like. So you see if you really try you can't help but succeed. Make up your mind that you are going to acquire and carry out some form of ambition, by first selecting a vocation, secondly, develop a personality that corresponds to your ideal of fine manhood or fine womanhoodg and third, have perseverance, that is to say 'istick to it, and never give upfl By doing this your reward will slowly but surely come, It will greet you with happiness, a livelihood and lifels success. Then you can truly and righteously say, The world owes me a living, for which in turn I am rendering a life of service to my community, to my state, and to my country. JOHN SCHENFELT 2?GJram:+w

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Swatam Township High School-THE SWATARA SWATTER 5 Senior Qlass History QUR one great High School Task, Enter to Learn, being completed, we start on our next great task, L'Leave to Serve, with renewed vigor, strength of mind and willingf ness on our part. The records during our entire High School Career clearly spell success, indicating that each and everyone has done his or her best. We are justly proud of this fact and have great faith in believing that the members of our class are bound to make a future success of themselves. It was not all Smooth Sailing, as one might think: We had our Ups and Downs in our school and social affairs, together with arguments and misunderstandings among ourselves. But it was due to our cleverness in dealing with such matters that made peace reign supreme, it was this fact that made it possible for us to have such an outstanding good record as shown in the paragraphs hereto following- Early in September, 1926, our classmates then a group of young sturdy knowledge seeking pupils from all sections of the Township entered the New High School Building as Freshman. At first Cas is common among all Freshmanj we were shy, bashful and forlorn. We possessed a fearful attitude toward our upper classmen who quite often treated us with burning initiations and other nasty tricks. But regardless of this fact we were quite active in all sorts of school affairs and school events. We had 4 members on THE SWATTER Staff. In basketball we had 5 boys and rr girls on the Junior Varsity. Our Sophomore year was even more successful than the Freshman year. This year the boys and girls were no longer shy, bashful or forlorn but were romantic, daring and chivf alrous which was clearly displayed in our response to the calls for football, basketball and other athletic and social events. In football fthe Hrst in the history of our schoolh, we had r 1 brave and hearty boys respond. In basketball we had r boy and 4 girls on the Varsity teams, and 2 boys and 5 girls on the Junior Varsity teams. We also had 3 members on THE SWATTER Staff. During our Junior year we were more inclined to realize life's work that lay before us. We were less 'kchildishn and more studious in our manners and attitudes, as the real purpose of a High School Education was just beginning to dawn upon us. This year we gave our first play entitled L'The Winding Road, which was a great success to us, and likewise a recreational service to the public. As to athletic events we had a greater showing than before. This year we had 2 boys and 6 girls on the Varsity Basketball teams. In football we had claim on 8 members. In baseball we had 5. We also had a good showing on THE SWATTER Staff to which we attributed 8 members. Our last and Senior year was in one way our saddest and in another way our happiest year. We felt sorry toward leaving one another, while on the other hand we felt happy to realize that we were grown up and prepared to face our future task that lay before us. This year we gave our second play entitled The Silent Shape, which also proved a success. In athletics we had 5 boys out for football. In basketball we had 5 boys and 7 girls. While in baseball we had 5 boys. We also had 8 members on THE SWATTBR Staff, We Hnished High School by having 51 members in our class who fought and plugged their way toward their one great goal of Learning. JOHN SCHENFELT, -IR., Historian tQJhin.c+m :www it-Q9