Uniontown High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Uniontown, PA)

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DEDl!3Il'l'IUIl His untiring efforts in helping Mr. Mosier run the affairs of the school has given our assistant principal a permanent place in our hearts. Because of his sense of humor which is never stale, he is able to combine work with a little fun quite skillfully. Possessing an unlimited amount of energy he dashes in and out of classrooms putting the finger on students guilty of skipping classes and handles their punishment with diplomacy. He is a man to whom no problem is too great or too insignificant to discuss. Most soph- omores fear him from their first visit to his office, juniors soon respect him, but we seniors have learned to understand and love him. To this man- cordial, fun-loving Mr. John H. Dunn, undaunted by the problems we pre- sent, the class of '44 devotedly dedicates this book in hope that it will convey to him the high esteem and respect with which he is held. four

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qu..-Q FUBELUDIZD Education: the Problem of Youth- Education might at one time have seemed a charitable grant to those who received it, today it is a necessity to the community that gives it. We cannot afford an ill-educated electorate, and we insist that any child who has learned to talk-speech is probably the greatest achievement in every person's life-should have twelve years' schooling. These twelve years are necessary not because the schools have so' much more information to impart, but because they are the best means of teaching the student to discriminate and to evaluate, For without this teaching, political mobstering will form the minds of our children, and in so doing destroy whatever capacity is within them for democratic think- ing. We, being graduated from Uniontown Senior High school, as insig- nificant as we may seem, must form, along with graduates of other high schools the nation over, the bulwark with which to meet open-mindedly this problem. We can adapt students to this world, we have been doing it' for some time. We can consciously and deliberately make our schools more vital and creative, to the end that our children go beyond today's confusion and un- derstand it better than we do ourselves. This course, being difficult, is the way of heartbreak and of tears. lt may well produce humane and thoughtful adults who, dissatisfied with the life they see, will want to better it. It is a challenge for you and me, the youth of America, to face for the sake of humanity, the preservation of all civilization. three

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JOHN H. DUNN Assistant Principal of Uniontown Senior High School I 1: '1'