Lafayette High School - Oracle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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The will to succeed

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TO THE SENIORS REQUENTLY letters from Lafayette boys in service reiterated their regret at not having gotten much more out of their high school years. They longed for a second chance which they knew could never come. Whatever you have gleaned from Lafayette is now nearly complete. Perhaps you, too, will have regrets later, prob- ably you have none now. You are confronted with the most challenging times in which mankind has ever lived. War has left wholesale disorganization and disheartening disillusionment in its wake. ldealsseenp 'to have become fogged, an honest approach to the solutioififof seriously menacing problems less and less evident. ' ' ' U It is characteristic of teen-agers hastily to dispose of all really difficult questions by exciting discussion from which they reach conclusions highly satisfying. They are sure that their minds have exhausted all the plausible arguments which can be brought to bear. But they find it disturbing in the extreme to discover that practical application in the light of experience causes the ready-made remedy to bog down disappointingly. Many of the troublesome problems are still there when by good right they should have vanished. Slowly the truth penetrates: only bit by bit with the help of unfailing perseverance and determination can some little impression for the better be made. Into your hands now comes the opportunity to add your bit to the bet- terment of humanity by a life of loyal service to your fellow men. Your education has had one primary purpose-to receive that you may give. Lafayette hopes that it has added something to your mental, moral, physical and spiritual equipment which will enable you down the years to Be of a Good Courage in the uphill battle of life. i With every good wish for that degree of success you so fondly crave, I am, Your Principal and Friend, FRANK R. GOTT