Edward Drummond Libbey High School - Edelian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Jlflmfezf Tilof HREATENING skies, lowering clouds, dull gray pockets of mist and fog as dense as despair itself, and then the sunlight- always the sunlight. And the eyes must be steady and the nerves calm, the heart must beat with firm purpose and high re- solve, and there must be no faltering along the way, for the burden which is carried is a precious one, priceless, for it is a cargo of eager, blundering, stumbling, laughing, loving boys and girls. And who is he entrusted with this vast responsibility? What are the forces which give him strength to safely steer his craft through the dangers that life makes inevitable? Keenness of intellect, a rapier-like mind which solves problems quickly and surely, clearness of vision and judgement sound and true-these are of worth. Sym- pathy, kindliness, tolerance, and eagerness to comfort those in sorrow and rejoice with those who rejoice- worthy too are these. But the spirit, strong enough to take a firm stand in these days of shifting standards and tottering ideals and say, We must do this because it is right. Not because others wish it, not because it will bring us praise or fame, not for our own pleasure, but be- cause it is right. ' 'F-this spirit surely is of infinite worth. And this is the spirit that guides our good plane Libbey, which will never crash as long as Mr. Harold E. Williams, our Principal and Master Pilot, is at the controls. The priceless cargo is ever safe, even though it encounter threatening skies, lowering clouds, dull gray pockets of mist and fog as dense as despair itself. For there will always be the sunlight. i19l

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To the Students of Libby High School OUR EDITOR has expressed the thought ll that you would be interested in knowing the plans of the Board of Education for the future of your School, that you might be wondering just what new things the years might bring to you. As to the future of the school, we also - are wondering just what it will be. Will the Edward D. Libbey High Schoool stand out as one of the preeminent schools of the City, the State, the Nation, or will it be just another High School? The answer lies with you. True it is that your Principal, your Teachers, and your Superintendent will to some extent determine the answer to this question, but in the end it will be your reactions to the rules and regulations laid down, the character expressed by the boys and girls who sit in your classrooms, throng your halls and rub shoulders on your athletic fields. Who of you will take up the chal- lenge your school life presents, to make your school among the leaders of the preparatory schools of the country? Who among you will not be satisfied to be just an average student, but will so work and live that during the present school generation, school history will be made, and traditions laid down that will inspire and guide countless Freshmen in the years to come? At your class day exercises you will plant ivy, that future stu- dents may look at the green clad walls and know that the class of 1928 thought endearingly of old Libbey High. Which of you as individuals will do some deed that will likewise live as a reminder that there were some who tried to make the old school as worth while as the man for whom it was named? lf the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, what will be won in the halls of Libbey High? W. E. WRIGHT. Illl