Berry High School - Torch Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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Ffa 4- -:- -:- -:- 1' i :Elias OUR PRINCIPAL'S 'LETTER -ci 'I' J' J JF Dear Members of the Graduating Classes: As you go out from Berry, it is my earnest hope that the 4' training which you havei received may make you ,lhappy and successful in your life work. 0 Above all, I pray that perhaps some earnest, stimulating word, some kindly handclasp or some knowing sympathetic soul may have stirred the deep springs of your life into a Q passion for noble things and loving service for humanity. Let us remember that the measure of a man is not fame Q or wealth of favorable notoriety, but rather the life he leads, the work he did in his chosen vocation and the condition he made to comfort and help of his fellow men. An unknown author has defined the measure of a man l:- and let me close by quoting his sympathetic Words so filled with understanding: + Not, how did he die but how did he live, Not, what did he gain but what did he give? These are the unites to measure the worth Q Of a man as a man regardless of birth. .ul Not, what his station, but had he a heart, And how did he play his God-given part? Not, what the sketch in the newspaper say, But how many were sorry when he passed away? Most sincerely yours, 'D' G. LELAND GREEN 'U- Q-gg -:- -:- 4- -:- Qs

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lr is -:- -:- 4- 4- 'U' ri' 'U' 'll- -U- -D- T Q5- OUR FOUNDER'S LETTER To the Classes of 1928 J' .99 J Dear Boys and Girls: I have been thinking a great deal about you for the last few weeks, and about your going out from the schools. Our schools must always go on and on but we do miss the boys and girls who have been with us for so many years. Those of you who receive your diplomas from Berry are a part of ug and wherever you go you belong to us. If you do well we shall be proud of you and if you do not do so well you still belong to us and we will just wish that we could reach you and help you along as we did at Berry. This is just to tell you how much I am thinking of you and how much I am looking forward to your representing the schools wherever you go. We need you to stand up for Berry and by your love and loyalty show what the training here has meant to you. I want every one of you to always think of Berry as your home and come back any time you can. We shall always be glad to see you and to know about your work. With affectionate regards and best wishes to each Of you, Faithfully yours, 'VM7' 'D' 'U' 'D- 'D- 'D' l o -2- 32' 'G' '21

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SILVER AND BLUE 7 Glnmmrnrrmrnt hhrras 4'lB5OQl1lb I felt that I already knew the Berry Schools before coming here, and I have felt very much at home among the hills and the log cabins here. I am glad to have the oppor- tunity of speaking to the young men and women of the Berry Schools. The Berry Schools have the same ideals as the Progressive Farmer stands for. The teaching that Miss Berry has established here is making Georgia rich. She is training men and women to do the things that are worthwhile. A great many people have vision enough to start some- thing but few people have the real heroism to carry on a great move- ment. It is a 'purposeful school, and serves purposeful people. I am remined this morning of an address that President Wilson made to a group of young men from wealthy families. He said: Most of you, I am sorry to say, will never amount to very much in this world because you have had things made too easy for you. The young men and women that usually amount to the most in this world are those who have had the whip of necessity on their bare backs. In speaking to you this morning I should like to have you think of Life's four Trinities,-y o u r s e l f your work, your money, your life. These trinities are tremendously im- portant because they constitute the bases of life. In developing yourself you must develop your body, your mind and your spirit. It takes all three to make the real all round person. At the Berry Schools you are taught to develop all three. If a person develops the, body alone, he is a brute, if he develops the mind alone, he only has vision, if he de- velops the spirit, alone, he is a fanatic. If he develops all three he is a real person. Now the trinity that has to do with your work, is industry, business and profession. One should find a work that takes in all of these things. If he only has industry his body will develop but his mind will not. If he has something that involves busi- ness, alone, he may gain ina finan- cial way but his body and mind will not be growing. If he has a pro- fession that simply develops the mind his body will not gain anything by it, so again it takes the trinity to make the whole. Farming is the one thing that takes in industry, busi- ness and profession. Farming is look- ed upon in a very different attitude to what it, was a few years ago. People use to think farmers should stay at home all the time, work hard as they could and never have enough to eat, but that attitude has changed and the farmers are no longer iso- lated. The automobiles have done a great deal to improve this isolated condition. Now for the trinity of money. If you are to be a success in every way you must consider a little