Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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valedictcry A SKY FULL OF STARS Two men stood in the Colosseum at Rome. The first, thrilled by the atmosphere per¬ vading the most famous arena at that time, turned to his friend and said, Think of the men who have been here, the men who have walked this very soil.” No,” replied the second, turning to him. No, my friend. Think rather of the men who will walk here through the years to come.” We, Angola High School’s graduating class of 1940, stand here uncertainly, about to take the first toddling steps which will lead us into the business of every-day living. Like a group of modern Aladdins, we are about to exchange old lamps for new. Today, our personalities are basically very much the same. We wear the same clothes, eat the same food, read the same books, and sing the same songs. We are the sons and daughters of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. We are part of that great classification known as children” in general and high school students” in particular. Tomorrow all this will be changed. Tomor¬ row we shall have begun the business of living for ourselves, and we shall have begun the molding of our own personalities. In not too many tomorrows in the future, we shall ourselves have become the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, the doctor, the lawyer, the merchant, and the chief. We cease to be students and become people. But the elder butchers and bakers and can¬ dlestick makers will be pessimistic, indeed. This business of living, they will warn us, is a hard row to hoe. On every hand, men and women of ability equal to our own will be competing with us on our own ground, ready to take the bread from our plates and the hope from our souls. We who are younger are not afraid. Like the man in the Roman Colosseum, we must not worship those great men who have walked before—we must think, too, of the great men who are yet to live, the men who will walk the earth with us. We will sing the song to be found in the lines of Tenny¬ son’s Locksley Hall: Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father’s field. And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new; That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do. We who are being graduated are ready to accept the challenge. Someone has said, Invent a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” There is always room in this great business of living for those who are honest in purpose and sincere in ideals. The sky is still full of stars. —NORMA HULL. Page Twenty-four

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a vacation cruise It was in the summer of 1960 when I was on the S. S. Queen Elizabeth on my way to Europe that I saw members of the class of 1940 of A. H. S. Just imagine my surprise when I found that the great commercial artist, Norma Hull, was aboard, and that the captain of the liner was Roscoe Nedele. His pretty wife, the great American actress, Eileen Erbe, was traveling with him. The first and second mates of the mighty liner were Eddie Carlson and Morris Whitlock respectively. That evening as I went to dinner I saw Robert Porter of Wall Street dining with his secretary, Barbara Reese. At the table adjoining me was the ship’s doctor, John Harvey. Nice going, Johnnie! And nurses, Bettie and Billie Bassett, who were associated with him, were also there. In a far off corner of the dining room was Max Moore, title holder of the Open Golf Tournament of 195 8-59. Music those few evenings was furnished by Bill Hopkins’ Rippling Rovateers with Betty Keckler and Bob Seely as featured soloists. Donn Laird was his first trombonist. The next morning as I was in my deck chair for a bit of fresh air along came some of the sailors and, believe it or not, they were no other than Don Osborne, Jack Bryan, Robert McKinley, and Ora Sierer. In the amusement room a foursome of school teachers, including Esther Ferrier, Marguerite Moor, Donelda Bell, and June Rothenbuhler of the class of ’40, were engaged in a game of bridge. Wauneta Shoup, Evelyn Stage and Ellen Green, all three secretaries on vacation, were looking for a fourth for a game of deck tennis. At the swimming pool I saw Marge Imus, swimming instructress, endeavoring to teach some passengers the mermaid’s art. I lunched with Louise Griffiths, who was in charge of the ship’s beauty salon; her assistants were Iona Huntington and Margaret Fast. Mary E. Agner was the buyer of new crea¬ tions for the exclusive dress shoppe of Jeanne Preston and Madolynn Myers in New York. They were all three going to Paris. Nice going, kids! The ever famous chemical research engi¬ neer, James Mitchell, was aboard going to Egypt, and Dick Bender was enroute to Oxford to coach athletics. By this time Elden Kelley and David Hall had become fa¬ mous furniture designers and makers and both were going to Europe to design furni¬ ture for the Buckingham Palace. Of course there is always a group that marry rich men and get to travel for their own pleasure; those were Joanne Shoup, Bette Mounts, Virginia Kauffman, and Hazel Wells. Wasn’t that grand! Leland Morrison and Devon Reese were crossing with their new plane, taking it to England for a test flight. The All-Amer¬ ican Baseball Team was going across also and two of its distinguished members were none other than Carlton Wells, pitcher, and David Sowle, first baseman. Franz Wells was going to Ireland to fish off the coast there and Lucille Hubbell was going on an European tour giving piano concerts. Another well known figure on board was Secretary of State Burton Kolb enroute to London. There is the review of the Class of ’40, all in action in 1960. Some were doing what they had planned in A. H. S. —GLORIA DELLER. Page Twenty-three

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salutatory SUCCESS Today we, the class ' of 1940, are completing twelve years of preparation for life. Tomorrow we must step out into the world and take our places in society. Of course we plan to enter varied and different fields of work. We have different specific goals. Undoubtedly, those who wish to be engineers want to design the longest bridge, the most efficient turbine, or achieve some other great engineering feat. Those who wish to be statesmen want to pilot the ship of state to still greater heights. Each of us have probably set some goal for himself. These specific goals are different, but the great general goal of all is to live suc¬ cessful lives. , ...... . , If our foremost aim in life is to be successful, we must have some definition of success. The dictionary gives this definition: The act of succeeding, or the state of having succeeded.” Of course, this is a general definition and so one must make a definition to suit his individual case. Different people have different ideas of what a person must do to be successful in life. I should say that a truly successful person is one who leaves the world a better place in which to live than it was when he entered it. This is my aim. . . . . but how is one going to achieve success. One cannot buy a ticket to it. All the money in the world cannot purchase it. One may become wealthy, popular, or even famous; and still he may not be truly successful according to my definition. Whatever one does to make the world better must come from his own mind; therefore his motto should be Think. Incident¬ ally, this is the motto of one of America’s most successful business men, Thomas J. Watson, who, as pres¬ ident of International Business Machines, makes nearly half a million dollars a year. Although one cannot follow any set road to success, there are several traits of character which, if developed, will greatly increase one’s chances of being suc¬ cessful. Roger W. Babson, a noted economist, in his book, Making Good in Business, has classified all the requisites into six basic character traits. They are: Industry, Integrity, Intelligence, Initiative, Inten¬ sity, and Inspiration. If these are the keys to success, they certainly are worth consideration in some detail. Industry: Everyone knows what happens to the lazy individual. Ele, figuratively, dies on his feet. A lazy man can’t get ahead today because there are too many energetic people trying to get the better positions. In these days of intense competition, one must be in there plugging” all the time in order to get ahead. Integrity: Nearly everyone has heard the old maxim, He who cheats, cheats only himself.” This is more true today than ever before. With the modern ac¬ counting systems of business, no one can go on cheating long without being discovered. Many promising men have fallen by the wayside because they lacked the most important of all characteristics, integrity. Aside from the criminal aspects of dishonesty, it is obviously true that no one can do his best without a clear conscience. intelligence: Intelligence does not mean mere book learning. Intelligence is judgment, which is the ability to think clearly, justly, and courageously. Al¬ though intelligence is to some degree inherited, one can improve it by the development of other charac¬ teristics, such as honesty, courage, and resourcefulness. Initiative: One can be happy without initiative, but he can never be successful. Initiative is the driving power of life. It is like the gasoline in a motor. A person can have a good brain, a good character, and a good personality, but still fail because he lacks initiative, the driving power. Intensity: Today, the day of specialization, one must concentrate on doing one thing, and doing it well. You have all heard of the jack-of-all-trades and master of none. To be successful, one must decide what one thing he can do best, and study that one thing un¬ til he knows as much or more about it than anyone else. Then he can lead the field.” Inspiration: This is the trait which stimulates the other fire. A great musician cannot write a note of music without it. A poet can’t attempt a single verse without it. Inspiration is the characteristic which sets one’s mind in motion. So if one has devel¬ oped industry, integrity, intelligence, initiative, and intensity, all he needs is one vital spark of inspira¬ tion; and he is well on his way to success. It is my sincere wish that this class, hiving acquired most of the traits requisite to successful living, may go out into society and in the years to come, improve that society. In doing this, they will be truly successful. —BURTON KOLB. Page Twenty-five