Robertsdale High School - Tiger Yearbook (Robertsdale, PA)

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SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL “Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do. or dream you can. begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. —Goethe To the members of a high school graduation class, who have not only begun but who also have finished what they started out to do. this advice of Goethe may seem unnecessary. But now a larger, more difficult problem faces you. When you started your school course, the way was pointed out for you. Parents, teachers, and school board have largely guided you in the way that was best. Now the choice is largely up to you. The thing you must be careful to do is to boldly make a choice of a stepping stone to a future occupation, and begin it, whether it be higher edu- cation, military service, homemaking, or a job. The satisfaction and the confidence that comes to an individual as a result of a job well done, in this case that of high school graduation, should go a long way in creating enthusiasm for a new start in a life's work. May I take this opportunity to wish you good fortune. Harvey A. Davis

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BOARD OF EDUCATION To the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-six: We, the School Directors of Wood Township, together with the members of the faculty of the Robertsdale Schools, congratulate you on your achievement of the successful completion of your high school education. We have put forth every effort to make our school one in which our students would be given the best opportunities to learn to be good citizens, so that they can make the communities in which they live better and more prosperous communities. And if what you have learned in our schools will be a factor in guiding you to a life of success and happiness, then we will have been well rewarded for our efforts. May God bless you all. HARRY SHEATS, President President Harry Sheats Vice-President Henry Theys Secretary Leslie C. McClain Daniel McCarthy and Jess Morgan Members “Next in importance to freedom and justice is education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.”—Garfield

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PRINCIPAL In this era when one's eyes and ears per- ceive such words as thcrmo-nuclear fission, technological complexity, and co-existence, your minds could become entangled in a poli- tical. social, and economic enigma. These “high powered words arc, to me, not nearly as important as the simple and trite words, The American Way of Life . These are the words which I hope you hold dear and near to you. During this age when political ideologies seem to be only the labor of high governmental officials and foreign potentates, it is a challenge to you. the future leaders of our heritage, to guide the destines of “The American Way of Life”. From our way of life I will take only tw oprecepts: the dignity of the individual and the brotherhood of man. You will recognize both of these as good Christian, democratic principles. Ours is the only political ideology that acknowledges both. So, as the years go by. revere these precepts, and. if need be. sacrifice your lives and fortunes; then the world you will establish, will be free from the abomina- tions that have faced your predecessors. Orvin W. Troy Eunice Horton, a graduate of the Robertsdale High School, is our efficient secretary. The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. —Johnson