Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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RED AND BLACK 7 Message to Graduating Class My Dear Friends:-Members of Class 1924. The bond of friendship which four years of mutual purpose and aspiration have sealed, makes a closing message a very sacred and difficult privilege. The high school has tried to show you through its work and its teachings that life is more than a living, that personality is better than equipment, It has sought to give you a better and a best self. You are soon leaving its halls and its class rooms, many of you with high ideals and aspirations, for achievement, for success and for service. Cherish, and believe in your dreams and ideals for they are REAL. The tendency will be, as you touch life more and more to give up hope of realizing them, and then to abandon them all to- gether, unless they are held with a Hrmness that no failure or disappointment can change they are apt to vanish after the first ardor of youth is past. The argument for your long years of training in public school and collegiate work can have no permanent validity if the efhciency and culture sought are not moral as well as intellectual. The only thing that can justify your long period of educational preparation is that it enables you to go back into life with larger and liner standards with which to test the questions personal, social and ethical which will confront you and also give you a living sympathy and fellowship with those who have not had the fortune to share your advantages of training. Many times what the social world has cast out as rubbish has been rescued and redeemed and made into vessels for the Master's use by those consecrated upon the altar of cultural service. May you allow no opportu- nity to pass by without doing something that will make life easier and better for those in need of it. And ever remember that the life that neglects the call to human service cannot be rounded out to its fullest possibilities. On the other hand the world comes with its final loyalty to those lives made radiant and strong through human service. My dear young friends, look forward to the great privilege and joy of being service- able to your community, to your neighborhood and to the greater neighborhood of the nations. You will be greatly helped in looking forward to attaining that privilege, and you will find that forward look a great incentive to present work and to present self-restraint. Put into your lives lofty principles, and lofty adherence to principle and you will build safely and well. Uphold and cherish the ideals of your home and school. In one of the halls of that great school for boys at Eton, England is this inscrip- tion- No Eton man, may tell a lie. When a boy entered that school one of the first things he heard was that he must not mar the good name of Eton College, and so great has been the power and influence of that name upon the lives of many of England's great men who attended that school that it is said that in the British Parliament, in commerce, or in industry the word of an Eton man is never questioned. You may think it is a very trivial matter to be truthful, to be courteous, to be loyal, to be trust- worthy, to be appreciative, to be grateful, but it is the presence or absence of these qualities that cover the whole distance from success to failure. If you would give to your generation fine culturel service you must be true, honest, sincere and trustworthy. Ejverfremember that manhood and womanhood are greater than wealth and grander t an ame. Personal nobility is greater than any calling or any reward that it can bring. My parting words are these-keep your name and reputation above reproach, dare to be true to your vision and ideals. Never allow an inferior piece of work to come from your hands. One of the Finest tributes paid the late President Harding was that he never returned to his country a careless or inferior piece of work. Give tothe world good honest work and never minimize what you would accomplish. Qet the vision of greaterbservice and when the great hour of opportunity strikes in your life, may you be ready, is the wish of your friend Miss MCDERMOTT

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R V. H. Mosncu Ohio Northern University Ohio State Vnivcrsity. W. F. HAIVGER Ohio University, A. B. ED AND BL M4XRCiR1iT'I' C. ScfHtiL'rz Oberlin follcgc, A. B. Univcrsitv of VVisconsin University of Tolctlo l':YlEI,VI A M Ati M ievmz Hciclcllme-rg Collcgc, A. B. MURL FRYE Franklin College, ltd. Bliss College, Ohio ACK 9 lVlIl.DR1ED L. MICKEY Oberlin College, A. B. GENEVIEVE TAYLOR Ohio State University B. of Sc. in lid.