New Castle High School - Ne Ca Hi Yearbook (New Castle, PA)

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 fiE n-tir an GDur JJarntta who have always sacrificed for us, and many of whom have made supreme sacrifices that we might have the advantages of an education, we, the members of alir (Hass nf 191B dedicate ®l|ts Annual

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TO THE SENIORS You are graduating at an extraordinary time. An unrest pervades the world. The final outcome of events is not known. At such a time, for a boy or a girl to decide just what is best to do is a difficult task. Choosing a vocation for life is a serious problem at any time. It is especially difficult this year. However, it is a question that many of you will be called upon to decide. It is one of your most serious problems. Your future success, comfort, happiness and usefulness depends on the choice you make. It is essentially a problem for each one to decide individually. You may receive advice but the final decision rests with you. You must assume the responsibility. In the past, probably, you have shifted the responsibility of an important decision to some one else. However, this most important decision must be yours. The matter should be given your most serious consideration. You should be sure of three things. First—that you are selecting a work for which you are best fitted. Many of the failures in life can be attributed to attempts of persons to do work for which they are not qualified by nature or by education. Study your own self to know what you are best qualified to do. Your likes and dislikes should play an important part in your decision. Follow your own inclinations. Second—that the vocation you decide upon will be agreeable to you. To be successful at any work you must become absorbed in it. To become absorbed you must be interested. Furthermore you should give your best energies to mastering its problems. You can put your best energies only in work that is agreeable. Third—that what you decide on doing will offer you the future you desire. Your vocation should be a worthy one. You should be sure that twenty years hence there will be a demand for the talent you have to offer. You are but a remnant of the class that started four years ago. You are to be congratulated for the tenacity you have manifested in sticking to the task. You should carry this same tenacity of purpose with you into your life work. Success will come easier if you have it. You have entered with vim and vigor into the different activities of the school. This is an example worthy of emulation by other classes that are to follow. Again you are advised to carry this same vim and vigor along with you into life. Both of these qualities are essential to success. The school expects much of you. You have received the four years’ training which the school affords. Therefore the school has a right to expect good results from you. While w'e regret to have you leave, we also have satisfaction in your prospects and opportunities for the future. Keep physically fit, morally clean and mentally alert. Resolve to be useful and also to get the best things out of life. It is our sincere wish that success and good fortune may be with you always. 7 F. L. ORTH.