Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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MR. CRAWFORD BOWER Class of 1951---mid-century class. Many of you will see the year 2000. What will life be like then? We do not know. It will be what we make it. These next fifty years will be no easier than the last fifty. There is no place in our way of life for those looking for an easy way. Take stock of our past; of our present might, rooted in a Christian democracy that enobles men, not degrades them. Ours is not a civilization to be dragged down by a medieval slave state. Take stock and take heart and be prepared to do your part. uperin tenden t p. rincipa MR. PAUL OAKLIEF Dwight L. Moody expressed the thought one time that Many of us have just enough religion to make us miserable but not enough to make us happy. The same condition is often true with education; too much of our incentive for and in education has degenerated into a vocational rat race so that we might have a head start on the 'Joneses . Being able to know when one is well off, having numerous satisfying sub- stitutes for buying a good time, or being able to see human greatness—to see the highest reach and scope of the spirit of man are also exchangeable in life for happiness. I doubt if people who have lived on all levels of income, from very small to very large, would say the thickness of their carpets ever did much for them, ever cured them of their inner discontent. 1 think only the love of those closest to us, friendship and the consciousness of work well done can ever do that. George Bernard Shaw wrote: This is true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. 28 Mr. Oaklief

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ADMINISTRATION V

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SEATED, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Vernon J. Gasson-President, Mr. Keith Ehrsman, Mr. Chandos Printz, Mr. Eugene Sheldon, Mr. James H. Allen. MISS SHIRLEY KOCH Secretary to the Principal MRS. MARIE SPENCER Secretary to the Superintendent Compliments of KENTON DAILY DEMOCRAT 29