Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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FAREXVELL TO MR. CORRIE PRINCIPAL EUGENE CORRIE Mr. Eugene Corrie came to Billings high school in the fall of 1924. Since this time he has proved himself an able principal his friendly personality has won for him a host of friends. confidence and courage has helped him in his executive mission we, the class of '27 owe to him a great deal of gratitude for successful high school career. lVIr. Corrie leaves us this year and His and our and it is with deep regret, that the students, who have been under his guidance realize that this is his last year in Billings high school and so it is that we, the class of '27 wishing him the greatest of success in the future and hoping that he is leaving only to widen his field of activity, bid him farewell. 28

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W Message Another school year is over. I wonder how many of you have reached the objective you set out to attain. Qbjective, you say. XVhat is meant by objective ? That is just the point. How many of you ever have a definite idea of what it is you are trying to do as you put in these four years in high school? How many set a goal for a day, a week, a month or a year and then examine the record to see whether or not that goal has been reached? For most of us four credits a year is the objective. lVhat credits are and what they will be used for makes little difference. lVe go to school because it is the traditional thing to do and because the neighbors would wonder if we didn't. The two great reasons for not failing are the shame it brings upon us and the delay occasioned by the necessary repetition of the subject. How many high school pupils ever stop to consider that their education is a process of growth, that each lesson is given for a definite purpose, a purpose upon which they may capitalize in the future? lf we would bear in mind that every class exercise is given to help us in later lifeg that each bit of knowledge, ineonsequental as it may seem at the moment, is a step up in our preparation, then our whole attitude might change. VVe would cease to study just to passg to gain creditg to graduate, and would begin to study to grow, to be able to take our place in the world when the opportunity comes. YVe are all interested in the brilliant student but development is just as valuable as brilliance. What pleasure it is to see one who has had to struggle, gain the objective for which he has worked so hard. So, freshmen, sophomores, juniors and you seniors who are soon to carry on outside the jurisdiction of Billings high school, try to keep before you the fact that the work of every day has a meaningg that your school tasks are for definite preparation and that growth depends upon them, and that above all you must have a goal or ob- jective else all is lost no matter how hard you work, for speed without direction is of no avail. M. C. DIETRICH, Srzpwirztezzdmit of Schools 27

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Message By PRINCIPAL EUGENE CORRIE There is less difference in school buildings than in schools. VVhen the architect draws his plans for the building he must not digress beyond the narrow limits of certain conventional notions. The inevitable results are buildings differing in size and beauty but essentially the same. But you, the architects who build the schools, are bound by no laws, by no conventions. The results show no limi- tations in differences and but few factors of similarity. You have taken the materials at your disposal-loyalty, honesty, and good fellowship -,-' -and have builded a school more beautiful and enduring than the building in which it is housed. Because you have done so-because you have made it possible for the Billings high school to achieve the highest and best, 1 extend to every student the greetings of the faculty and myself, 29