Hershey High School - Choclatier Yearbook (Hershey, PA)

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A Message to the Seniors OUR SCHOOL days in our high school have come to a close. Your records are about completed. Your grades are recorded and will be placed in the vault to be kept on file by the school authorities for future reference as you go on in life. Though they are being placed in the vault and the vault is locked, you will hnd that these records will have a peculiar way of following you wherever you go. They will at all times handicap or help you. In fact, they have become a part of you and your reputation, and folks will know you by them. You may think we have in mind to keep the vault unlocked and send your records after you inthe form of grades wherever you go, but this is not what we had in mind. This, of course, will be done if necessary but this only happens oc- casionally and after a short while not at all. But what we have in mind is the fact that while you recorded these grades and records with us you were also more truly recording them in the synopses of your nervous system. They have now woven themselves into our habits of work, habits of neatness, punctuality, honesty, cooperation, thrift and general efficiency. In fact, you may have thought you were going to school and learning subjects, but-the fact really is that while you were doing that-you were doing something else far more important. You were building for yourself a character and a reputation that has become a part of you. This aspect of your records is, therefore, never locked in our vaults and released at anyone's will, but is inevitably present and influential when you are present or considered. All of us usually make the mistake in thinking that all we were doing during our school days was learning reading, writing, arithmetic, algebra, and Latin and that at the most we were only preparing ourselves for the position we later hope to secure. But the truth is, that we were all the time during our high school days trying ourselves out on essentials of the position to which we later hope to attain. The environment of the position may not have been present but the position was, and we have largely already failed or succeeded in it. The trouble with most of us is that we plan to do things so differently after we get the position which we have been picturing for ourselves, but when the time comes we forget ourselves, or we lack the ability, or the sheer determination to make us turn a new things the way we always knew we ought to work. As a result we we have failed in the past to do what we knew should be done. On the other hand there are many of you, yes, a great majority will go out into places of responsibility and succeed because you have ceeded here. You have finished your twelve years of public school leaf and do fail because of you who already suc- work. You will succeed equally well in college, office, shop or factory because you have within yourself the elements of success, because you have built them up slowly but surely during your high school days. To all such, records within the vault or without, will always be a great help. They may even be to the rest of you also perchance, if, you catch the spirit and import of this little message to you as you go, Yours most sincerely, CHOCLATIER 10

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J. I. BAUGHER, A.M., Ph.D. HERSHEY, PENNA. S1lj5ClfZ'1,.S'f1'lg Principal Dr. Baugher has served as ourchief for three years, and in that time has proved himself to be capable of managing the affairs of the largest consolidated school in America-namely, the Derry Township Schools. It is not the easiest job imaginable, for edu- cators say he must answer to and create cooperation among four groups: the patrons, the Board of Directors, the faculty, and the students. His diplomacy, tact, and far-sighted reasoning have served well in accomplishing this four-fold task. We appreciate and thank you, Dr. Baugher, for your good and helpful advice during the major part of our high school days. CHOCLATIER