Columbia High School - Mirror Yearbook (Maplewood, NJ)

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Cjreetlnc d to the daSA of 1936 You are graduating in an exciting and challenging decade. Never at Columbia has the interest in education beyond high school been higher. Never have opportunities for qualified young people in business or industry or the professions been greater. Never has our country been stronger or wealthier or occupied a position of greater prestige than it has in this decade. These are great years in which to begin one’s adult life. Among the more than four hundred young men and women who will receive their diplomas June 21, a large number will be outstandingly successful in whatever they undertake — whether it be college, a job, the armed services or marriage. Some will succeed moderately well; others will just get by”; and a small minority will be failures. Research on the factors affecting success and failure indicate that while high ability and good education are very important in achieving success, they share equal importance with strong purposes, readiness to work long and hard, and a capacity for getting along with other people. Generally speaking, the people who succeed are the ones who deserve to. Good luck or bad luck are largely superstitions. Most people make their own luck. Although your eyes and thoughts are focused ahead, do not forget that Columbia is and will continue to be your school home, and you are always welcome to come back to visit your teachers and your other friends here. Where- ever you go and whatever you do, you carry with you the affectionate good wishes of the men and women and of the boys and girls who make up Columbia High School. Page 10 Robert L. Amsden, Principal