Fulton High School - Fultonian Yearbook (Fulton, NY)

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Board of Editors +I:- Editor-in-Chief EARL FOSTER Associate Editors .ALFRED STANTON MADELINE HUNTER ELLEN INIASON Business Manager ARTHUR GLADMAN Associate Business Managers ROBERT OTIS VIRGINIA OKONIEWSKI Sports Editors RAYMOND HAX'DEN ARTHUR JOICE MARJORIE GWYNNE I-Iumor JAMES MCNAMARA FRANCIS CULKIN Clubs VVINONA VVEBSTER ROSE GILLESPIE BERNARD MILLER Literary BETTY HUGHES DORIS PALMER Assemblies NATALIE BAKER CATHERINE SCHNEIDER SHIRLEY ZUCK Faculty Adfuisor NIISS CLARISSA POND

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THE FULTONIAN Language is uttered by the lips, but it reveals our hearts and minds. 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 taskg who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul g who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express itg who has looked for the best in others and given the best he had, whose life was an inspiration, whose memory is a benedictionf' Keep your face toward the sun And the shadows will always fall behind you. As you think, you travel, and, as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts, but you can endure and learn, can accept and be glad, you will realize the vision Cnot the idle wishj of your heart, be it base or beautiful or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly must love. Into your hands will be placed the exact result of your thoughts, you will receive that which you earn-no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration. V Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabitf' Perhaps at some future time it will be a pleasure to remember even these things. Pessimists are always in the rear and never in the van in the March of Progress. Your successful men and women are never chronic grumblersf' Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King- Else, wherefor born ? Wfoday is your day and mineg The only day we have: The day in which we play our part, What our part may signify in the great world we may not understand, But we are here to play it, and now is our time. In battle or business, whatever the game, In law, or in love, it's ever the same, In the struggle for power, or scramble for self, Let this be your motto, Rely on yourself. i9l

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Editorial 4+ When George Washington said, Knowledge is the surest basis of happi- ness, he referred to education as the basis of public happiness, but his statement is equally well applicable to our private lives, for without knowl- edge man would be little more than a brute. Happiness lies in achievement, so, in other words, knowledge is the tool which we must employ to fashion our happiness in the form of achievement. After four long years of striving to accumulate knowledge, it is but natural that we should regard ourselves as being well equipped with all the learning that is essential to happiness. However trite it may sound, it is none the less true, that man has never reached the limit in regard to the things which he should know. In the words of John Ruskin, Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close, then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of . . . some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves. Then, too, there is more than one type of knowledge. Besides mere technical learning acquired from books, there is the ability to get along. The world is full of people who are well equipped with special training of all kinds, but simply because they cannot make themselves compatible with their fellows, they are miserable failures in life. We should be constantly striving to acquire this ability during our post graduate course of Life. We are all familiar with the life of Robert Burns and the sad story of his failure. One of the main reasons for his pitiful collapse was that he could not analyze his own problems. In other words, Know thyself. This knowl- edge is highly important, and fortunate indeed are those of us who are able to see our own shortcomings and take steps to counteract them. One of the greatest problems of Washington's time was to aid through education the mass of illiterate people to become capable of intelligent self government. We are still striving towards that goal. Besides the actual training we have received in a particular branch of science, mathematics, or any other subject, we have also developed our reasoning power, we have been trained to get at the root of a situation, to weigh arguments, and to arrive at a conclusion by the process of logical reasoning. If we apply this knowledge to our own public and private lives, we shall have traveled far on the road toward the realization of the dreams of Washington and his colleagues when they founded this nation.