Eau Claire High School - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Eau Claire, MI)

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Superintendent’s Address KRY one wants to be successful. That is an inherent characteristic. It is only the abnormal who lacks this attribute. Success consists in getting what you go after, w hether it be to become a foreman in a factory or president of the great steel corporation of our country. Some of the things absolutely necessary to w in success are ambition, determination and the willingness to pay the price of success. We often feel prone to say that “force of circumstances” prevents us from rising to the objective of our ambition. It is easy to excuse ourselves when our ambition becomes abortive, so we drift and drift. Things that arc worth w hile require training of some sort, either skill of the mind or muscular skill. There are openings in many lines of endeavor providing one is able to do efficient work. One person may have latent possibilities along banking lines, another the hidden possibilities of a great surgeon. Therefore, the first problem is to find out where one is best fitted or where one may best use his powers. Schools are designed to aid you in your endeavor. Various courses are offered to help try you out. Science, mathematics and many other courses are given to see in which direction your aptitude runs. Natural qualifications may best suit you for one vocation and not another. In order to get to the top you must determine to make sacrifices. Quite often places of training art' vacated because of misconceived notions. The wrong idea or principle of life gets into the pupils' minds. They get discouraged over the fact that all the money is going out and nothing is coming in. They do not figure that they are only capitalizing for the future. They begin to think that life is only to be entertained, or that a good time is the only essential. They begin to think that the line of least resistance is the best road to take. Momentary enjoy- ment of cheap entertainments leads them to think that the object of work is to satisfy their desires. Instead, it should stimulate them not only to earn enough to acquire these wants, but increase their capacity to acquire more than enough for maintenance. Then, they become persons of power and influence. We see examples of these classes around us every day. Boys leave school and have a good time in their early lives while' others are denying themselves many things in order to, in later years, enjoy places of achievement and independence of importance. Everyone w ho has attained any measure of success will tell you that you must have the determination to make good and the power to concentrate on your line of work. You w ill have to learn to work early and late w hile your fellow-worker may be resting, but this is a part of your training which will take care of itself later on. This may seem pretty hard, hut it is the acquiring of endurance which will outstrip your competitors in the future. To win one must be aggressive and make up his mind to sacrifice popularity to do so. The one who is never talked about is not doing very much. Look around and see if this is not so. When one has attained success is best summed up in the following quotation: “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.” Page Six P. J. DUNN.

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Faculty Sarah Luddcn History Margaret While Fifth and Sixth Grades Arthur H. Balfour Principal Science and Mathematics Cora M. Wagner Latin and English P. J. Dunn Superintendent Agriculture Catherine M. Riggs Commercial a a Page Eight Gladys Horton Third and Fourth Grades Beulah Lyhrook First and Second Grades