Rocky Ford High School - Le Cantaloupe Yearbook (Rocky Ford, CO)

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The Superintendentls Message CARRY YOUR CGLGRS INSIDE Lorado Taft, America's great sculptor, craftsman and teacher of love for the beautiful was the recipient of the Annual .Award of the National association of School Supply Exhibitors at St. Louis in February, 1936. As he received it he remarked, The beauty of the colors in the world around us, is determined by the colors We carry inside of ourselves. Petty details of the wor1d's working so occupy us that We fail to look for the lovely or think beautiful 'thoughts or do some kindly deed. Too much time has been spent by Americans in the hard work-a-day matters and so We have failed in knowing how to use our leisure. We go places and do things never giving ourselves time to see the attractive scenes along our way. Early Americans were so interested in the beauty of holiness that they failed to see the holiness of beauty wlgjiiw aaaa r WW RR ll

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James H. Wilson, Superintendent Kristian J. Sinding Mrs. Mabel Willbanks, Secretary to School Board Dr. Ward Fenton Charles S. Williams James B. Ryan, President Clarence B. Govreau Board ol Education LEISURE and HEALTH Our body, knitted and knotted with cares and worries of the gasoline age, -demands a release from this condition. What will help? Play, fun, reading, or any diversion allowing the nervousness to ebb away. Our social activities develop a killing pace leading to heart disorders, nervous break downs, and death. Leisure time must be granted for rest, with changed experiences. Only such will insure our health. Joy temperance and repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose. Whoever heard of sorrow or gloom aiding digestion ? Yet how many of us deliberately practice a cheerful attitude at mealtime, or have a joke to tell or an amusing incident to relate? Moderate work, play, and eating will not only keep the physician away but will add power, joy, and years to our lives. Rest will cure colds, fever, fatigue, as well as prevent these, and many other ailments. Leisure, then, is most important to the physical well-being, if it is used in ways that re- store mind and body to usefulness. Twentieth century people need more leisure than their ancestors because of the strenuous life they endure. Page Fourteen

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l 1 The principal s Message V LElsuREf' One chapter heading from the book by Albert Edward Wiggam giving some of the marks of an educated man is entitled, He keeps busy at his highest natural level in order to be happy, useful, and good. The tragic situation in modern Ameri- can life is that too many individuals keep too busy at a level too high for them to be happy, useful, and good. Every individual would have more time :for leisure if he would make use of his Wasted minutes, it is to be regretted that people avoid anything which they suspect is culture , We have to build up slowly and gradually our appreciation for the finer things in life. This growth pulls us out of ourselves towards higher and higher levels. Its reward comes in the fact that we are always able to find something of interest in life, and protects us from that melancholy boredom which comes to the somewhat sophisticated youth who has only scratched the surface of things for the thrill and concedes that there is nothing left of interest. We grow through acquiring information: 'through learning to appreciate the beau- tiful in literature, music, and art, through play in which we relax and laughg through meditation on our experiences and their influence on ourselves, the future, and the universe. L. J. Botleman Page Sixteen