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

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FOREWORD We, the class of 1928, present to our parents, friends and fellow students, this booh hoping that each will find some- thing of value within its pages to treasure in future years.

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I.eon Winter Treasurer Harry Hoguf. President Sii.as Merritt Trustee In Memoriam Qeo. T. Ijetter President of School Board January 15 1928 tfage Six]

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Harry G. Taft. B. S. Superintendent Michigan State College University of Michigan The Need for Educated Men and Women Never was there a greater demand for educated men and women than today. It is equally true that never did men and women stand more in need of an education than today. One may measure the small number of the trained men in many ways. For instance, there is not a railroad or other corporation, not a I tank. nor a newspajier nor a profession that is not anxiously looking for trained men and women to do its important work. An education cannot l e obtained in a day nor yet in a year. It takes time and work and can he achieved only by unceasing effort and perseverance. How often we find hoys and girls dropping out of school when they find the amount of work necessary for success. They fall among the great number of unskilled laborers, the number of whom is so great that the chances for success are painfully few. How true the old saying is. “There is always room at the top.” The ladder which must lie climbed to reach the top is the ladder of education. Each year of work that is successfully passed is another step upward to the desired goal. We do not mean to say that one’s education is completed when he finishes high school nor when he completes his eo’lege or university courses. He should always lie striving to better himself. Neither is it true that success comes with the mere presentation of a diploma to the graduate. His high school or college- work merely fits the graduate to more successfully enter the great coni] etition of life. He must use this knowledge, this education, in such a way as to give him power over his less fortunate competitors who are forced to dejiend on brawn rather than brain to make their living. f Page Eight]