Winchester Thurston School - Thistledown Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Ode Cn Graduation Forth from Calvary's mighty portals Into life's eternal battles, We, the class of forty-three, March with hearts both brave and free, Garbed in purest white. With sustaining armor bright as flame We shall win an honored name Forever viewed in halls of fame. On life's toilsome battlefield, To enemies how could we yield With this inscription as our shield- Candide Modo, Fortiter Ren? Sincere in purpose, brave in deed. Through life this shall be our creed, Guiding us from day to day. This armor will be everlasting, and will give Inspiration that will live Throughout the ages. As a sieve It will serve to strain and purify our lives. Our helmet is Truth, our breastplate is Love. They are virtues sent from above. With them deeds of valor are done, Tasks accomplished, battles won. Clothed in this armor one may conquer a band: On one arm the shield, and in the hand A sword of Courage. With this might One could win any fight. Like the gladiators of ancient Rome, Sent forth to a courageous fight, We too shall struggle with valiant might. But they were inspired by fear of doom, While our encouragement is our faith in the r In the arena we too shall be cheered Louder and louder as our goal is neared And as defeat is less and less feared. Through all the combat our spirits will be High, confident, so that all may see We are proud and unafraid To defend the armor for which we prayed, To keep it shining and unstained, Pure and unprofaned. Now unending thanks is due To that noble person who Gave us our shining armor. In he May we always worthy be Of the name of W. T. r sight Miss Mitchell, Victuri te salutamus. 11 ight. M..I.McI

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Suppressed Desires of Our Faculty Mrs. Ballard . Miss Bortman . Miss Caldwell Miss Campbell Miss Chalfant Miss Fisher . Miss Gamsby Mrs. Geise . Miss Gerwig Mrs. Hanft Miss Hannah . Miss Hildebrand Miss Hilleary Mrs. Houston Miss Johnston Mrs. Moore Miss Philput . Miss Pratt . Miss Price . Mrs. Seif Miss Smart Miss Wagner Madame Miss Zeigler . to have school begin in the afternoon, in order to have more time to dress her children . to revise the Betz answer books . . . . to prevent mass murders in the bus . to live in a level city, which would facilitate bicycling . . . . to have no shoe rationing . to start commuting from Ben Avon by train??? to have her room about ten feet from Miss Mitchell's office . to have all telephone service at W. T. discontinued to have a jeep named after her . to get our names straight . . . to get the knitted squares square . to design a housing project for the New Deal . to invent a machine to put on and take oil' snow suits to get the European boundaries settled . . . . to see Willkie in the White House to understand the rationing system as well as poeticvmeters . to get some English scholars . to stop giving those awful daily tests CHD to get Winchesterites to talk like Lynn Fontanne . . to get some female frogs next year . to have all the Seniors come to gym to have her Amaryllis Flower bloom each month . to understand the American system of pronunciation . . to become a hospital diagnostician 10

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