Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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E ROUNDUP JLJPZCINTENDENT Cr SCUCCLX ■yffenWWxiil,. Ikving Weight Smith To the (in- il Falls High School, Both Teachers and Pupils: Greeting. We come into this world, helpless and without the least degree of self-control. For the preservation of life at that period external, objective control is absolutely necessary. Such control, however, is regarded as a tem- porary necessity only. We immediately begin by gradual and progressive train- ing to eliminate it. Only as I he young child acquires inner functions, do we feel that he is gaining that freedom which is the measure of adulthood. Through discipline he gradually arrives at freedom. Unless we are to remain a nation of moral children, we must retain the faith of o ur fathers that the same is true in the intellectual and moral realms. All our education — whether in the home, the church, or the school — must have as its great and supreme goal the attainment of eventual independence and freedom from objective, external control. The means to this end is intelligent discipline, consciously directed toward it. It is for you, teachers and pupils, to lead the way ; to keep the faith of our fathers ; and to uphold as the motto of these United States of America that noble line from America The Beautiful : ' Confirm thy soul in self-control. ' Do not be discouraged: do not falter. 19 3 2

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THE R O U N EC4CD Or EDUCATION Fred Tkabh Chairman Victor F. Gibson Secretary Dr. C. J. Bresee Dr. A. S. Chichester Fritz Roll Dan 0. Wentwoeth I. W. Church Albert E. Wicgin 19 3 2

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THE ROUND HIGH SCHCCL PRINCIPAL Merle C. Gallagher In the midst of a driving snow storm, with drifts piling high, a dozen or more sparrows gathered in the shelter under the eaves of the roof, singing lustily. The wind and cold were equally powerless to silence their song, for it came from within, a part of their nature. And, singing, they forgot the storm. Their song silenced the wind and shut out the cold. Nothing in existence is so important as attitudes! All the rewards and real disasters of life are by-products of our attitudes. If we extend the open hand to the world it will give us friendships. If we stick out our jaw and clench our fists, life becomes a succession of blows. We cannot be happy by trying to be. It is only as we try to be something- else that we discover happiness has come as a by-product. Nor are we failures because of forces outside of us which are beyond control. We become failures only as we lose our mastery over our own attitudes. He who leaves at night a whipped individual is the same person who came out whipped in the morning. It is not the work, the equipment, the teacher, nor lack of time that defeats him, but his own attitude. ' ' For Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors — a liberal portion of that remarkable attitude, the will to do! How very many of the failures of the day would be eliminated ! 19 3 2