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The Sewickley Valley's Home News Weekly
Vol. 40,   No. 25.
EDGEWORTH SCHOOL
Combined Program at Edgeworth
School
■Fifteen members of tlie -ninth grade
of Edgeworth School received their
■promotion certificates from Andrew
McPherson, president ._ the school
board, at class exercises which were
combined -with a pageant showing the
work done by the pupils .during the
year. The 'graduating class included
■Betty Bolger, Nancy Brown, Richard
Buffington, William Oorso, John Dixon,
Barbara Dunn, Geraldine Gibb, Barbara Hall, Nancy MeKelvey, Anthony
Meta, Virginia Reamer, Roy Siegel,
Jack Ternent, William Texter and
Elinor Ward.
In presenting the certificates, Mr.
McPherson held out no hope of an easy
life to the graduates, as he said that as
they go on to a larger field of education
and grown up activities, they will find
life harder and more difficult than then-
parents found it. But, "a life of service and devotion to America lies before you." The serious impact of the
war on schools and all of civilian life
may become worse unless everyone re-
dedicates themselves to an all out drive
to further the cause of public education.
Education has not done its task until
each pupil has been given 'training to
become the most useful citizen possible. The enormous national debt left
from the depression, added to the tremendous cost of the war, will all have
to be paid and in the attempt to find
funds for the purpose, 'there may be attempts to take money rightfully belonging to the publie schools. But, if
the schools fail, America fails. Teachers were never overpaid and the future
will require even finer, better and more
■professional teaching. Edgeworth has
tried to keep up the scale 'Of salaries
and tonight's program speaks well for
the teachers and the pupils in a difficult war year.
Nancy MeKelvey made the prophecy
in verse and Roy Siegel and Barbara
Hall were 'the class donors. Virginia
Reamer presented the wooden chain to
Camilla Macaluso of the eighth grade
and the class sang "This Is Worth
Fighting For" to close the class exercises, which were last on the lengthy
program.
The program opened with "Tho
Father of Victory March" and "Gold
and Silver Waltz" by the 'Orchestra.
•Wio audience joined in singing the
national anthem and Rev, H. R. Browne
of the .Shields Presbyterian Church
gave tho invocation, which was followed by the Lord's Prayer in Latin
by the Latin .lass.
Principal James W. Camieron welcomed the audience, stating that the
pageant to follow was an attempt to
show the various school activities and
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SEWICKLEY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943
Commencement Week
SEWICKLEY HIGH SCHOOL CUSS OF 1943
They were Juniors last year when this picture was taken for the
"Sewihi," but they're Seniors now, graduating next week. Then-
activities begin with Class Night tomorrow (Friday) evening at eight
o'clock, preceded by the outdoor ceremony of ivy-planting at 7:30.
The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. Kenneth H. White
at a Sunday evening service beginning at eight o'clock inthe First
United Presbyterian Cliurch. Monday evening the class dinner will
be held at the Elmhurst Inn; and on Tuesday evening at eight,, the
Commencement Exercises in the high school auditorium. The grade
sehool promotion exercises will be on next Thursday evening in the
Broad Street building.
Price Five Cents
OSBORNE SCHOOL
Latin-American Bound Table Discussion
Featured Graduation .Night
The current Good-Neighbor tendency
to know more and understand more
Latin American peoples hast pervaded
Osborno public school this year, as well
as others; and that school well demonstrated its interest at the very pretty
graduation exercises last Friday evening.
The schoolroom walls were decorated
with posters in Spanish style made by
the pupils; note-books witli decorative
Covers containing pictures and clippings
and notes about South American countries; collections of current newspaper
articles of Guatemala, Peru and the rest,
great maps of both Americas,, and so
on. On "tables were many articles of
Mexican, Inca or Brazilian style; bits
of pottery, "bright-colored mats, little
•Jiguiihies and trinkets of every sort. All
these things were collected from Os-
■borne Jioones that happened to have
them, and they mado a fine exhibition.
Colorful drapings over a long, raised
table, brightly lighted, made a fitting
setting for tlie 'round-table- discussion'
by members of the graduating class,
f -ated behind it. At one side were the
pupils of the next grades, who joined in
the Singing, first of 'America,' then of
two 'North-American' numbers, 'I Hear
a Thrush at Eve,' and a vocal arrangement of Tsehaikowsky's '"Waltz of the
Flowers.' Contrasting Latin-American
isomgs came iater. Singing was directed
by Mrs. L. .T. "Wilson.at the piane.
Joanne Caruth Heaslett, first-honor
graduate, introduced the subject of discussion, 'A Problem for the Americas,*
with a ■shorlt statement: our earlieir
attitude of ignoring our South American
neighbors was changed when we noticed
how (European nation's were cultivating
and exploiting their rich resources. *We
came to realize that tho.se twenty nations have a Culture equal to that of any
peoples on earth; that the nations of
both Americas should live and act in
unison; and President Roosevelt's in-
'augumtion of the Good Neighbor policy
should be supplemented by more study
of those nations in our schools.
Mairjorie Ann Eex, second-honor graduate, next talked of the geography of
South America.; its snowy peaks, its
lush forests, its great rivers and broad
•plains; its products—'nitrates, cattle,
tin, rubber, eoffco, wheat—and Our Own
neetl of the raw materials available
there since other sources arc cut off by
the war.
Doris Marie "Whitfield spoke of La'tin-
Amoriean history; Columbus, Cortes*;,
Pizarro, the Aztecs and Incas- Dorothy
Patricia. Powner went on to tell of later
prominent figures* down to Dom Pedro
II of Brazil, his abolition, of slavery,
his abdication in 1SS9.
The music of Latin-A*mori'ca was tho
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