Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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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

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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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ve will and bequeath Be it remembered that we, the Class of 1940, of Angola High School, situated in the Town of Angola, in the County of Steuben in the State of Indiana, being in our usual unsound state of mind and memory, but mindful of the uncertainty of this life and our approaching dismemberment, do make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by us made. I, Richard Bender, do hereby will and be¬ queath my basketball technique to Don Jeffery. I, Jack Bryan, do hereby will and bequeath my attentiveness to one girl to Don Bennett. I, Donelda Bell, do hereby will and bequeath my social life to Roslyn Reese. I, Gloria Deller, do hereby will and bequeath my skill in playing a clarinet to Willoene Hendry. I, Esther Ferrier, do hereby will and be¬ queath my worn out paint brush to JoAnn London. I, William Hopkins, do hereby will and be¬ queath my ability as student conductor of band and orchestra to William P. Doyle. I, Lucille Hubbell, do hereby will and be¬ queath my Rubinoff characteristics to anyone who has a violin. I, Donn Laird, do hereby will and bequeath an interesting collection of dizzy poetry and ideas to Confucius. I, John Harvey, do hereby will and bequeath my privilege of being the best looking redhead in A. H. S. to Dorothy Mielke. I, Eileen Erbe, do hereby will and bequeath my baby talk and my diminutive size to Marian Champion. I, Madolynn Myers, do hereby will and be¬ queath my senorita appearance to Miriam Simpson. I, Marguerite Moor, do hereby will and be¬ queath my do, me, fa, sol, range” to Nancy Fisher. I, Burton Kolb, do hereby will and bequeath my wonderful, unceasing gift of gab to Max Boyer. I, Margaret Fast, do hereby will and be¬ queath my good behavior record to Margaret Munn. I, Roscoe Nedele, do hereby will and be¬ queath my highly honorable position as senior class president to Joe Holderness. I, Elden Kelley, do hereby will and bequeath my ability in manual training to Ernest Pence. I, Joanne Shoup, do hereby will and be¬ queath my ability to slap” the bass to June Fanning. I, Donald Osborne, do hereby will and be¬ queath my skill in telling tall stories to Fred Vesey. I, Evelyn Stage, do hereby will and bequeath my large circle of boy friends to Louise Cook. I, Robert L. Seely, do hereby will and be¬ queath my ability to make people guess if I’m thinking or sleeping to Kimsey Dole. I, Jeanne Preston, do hereby will and be¬ queath my intricate dance steps to Mary Jane Summers. I, Betty Keckler, do hereby will and be¬ queath my liking for Tri-State students to Leane Kling. I, Edward Carlson, do hereby will and be¬ queath a much used wad of chewing gum to Baxter Oberlin. I, Iona Huntington, do hereby will and be¬ queath a split clarinet reed to Patricia Baker. I, Ellen Green, do hereby will and bequeath a package of gum to be used at any convenient time in Mr. Certain’s classes to Roberta Hanna. I, David Sowle, do hereby will and bequeath Page Twenty-six