Union High School - Utopian Yearbook (New Castle, PA)

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THEME Memories can bring youth to age, they compel the mind to take mental journeys into the past, and one enjoys the life he has led by this means of survey. The psychol- ogist says that we should not live in the past or live in memory only, but consider your past and look to the future with inspiration. Let us take a look at our past and note the evolution that has taken place in schooling since our first year of school. Memories are engraved in our minds of a one room school house with a solitary despotic ruler who taught us the three R’s in rotation from first to eighth grade. The typical rural school with an outdoor pump for water, with a pot-bellied” stove to keep us warm, and with eight rows of desks. Do you remember? Memories soon bring a school bus into the scene which helps to make a more versatile school system. Consolidation! Consolidation!” is heard from various pro- gressive sources. Thus, our Memories brings back those three mile rides to grade school, then six or seven mile rides to high school. Do you remember the poor frus- trated bus drviers? Poor things, we drove them insane with song and laughter. Memories bring to life the last year of school, when we suddenly realize we are growing into men and women. We find ourself beginning to make decisions and often we want to regress to our childhood again; but we don t. For those memories are suf- ficient. These memories are the burning embers of life. Often we are in need of inspira- tion, and when we begin stirring up these Memories, we get renewed vigor. Actually, these embers are the source for the fiery ambitions within us and when aroused they help us to know the rights and wrongs which have crept into our lives through the only source known as — Memories.

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DEDICATION We, the class of 1955. humbly dedicate our Utopian in memory of Charles Blakely and Georce Liddle CHARLES BLAKELEY GEORGE LIDDLE A FRIEND I will not think that 1 have failed. Or lived my life in vain, If to my credit I shall find One friend to be my gain, And tho’ the Road of Life is rough. With mountains hard to climb; I find there’s joy along the way. And the journey, it is fine. If there’s a friend beside me: To cheer me with his song, To smile his understanding, When everything goes wrong; It gives me strength and courage. The Mountains to ascend, And I find that Life’s worth living. As long as there’s a friend. Then he not hasty when I’m gone. To say I lived in vain, Tho’ ghosts of many failures. Like monuments remain, But when Life’s sun is sinking. And I reach my journey’s end; Then count my earthly riches In the number of my friends.

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Left to Right: Fred H. Vannattcn, Secretary; Ralph McConahy, President; Ray Bailey, Peter Grittie, Jr.; Mrs. Gladys Farrington, Vice President; Frank Zajac; Mason J. Bodkin, Supervis- ing Principal. SCHOOL BOARD Often the gratitude which one feels can be said with flowers or a card; how- ever, for some things our feelings are so great that a few words will suffice. Each student at Union High School and Union Memorial Elementary School looks to the School Board with thanks and respect. The elementary students enjoy the modern- istic, colorful rooms and the clean healthful atmosphere which prevails in the archi- tectural structure w'hich shelters the progress of our modern world. Both the high school and grade school students appreciate the fine cafeterias, the well heated rooms, and the comforts which are nearing the goal of perfection. The highest respect is awarded to the six illustrious members of our school board.