Traverse City High School - Pines Yearbook (Traverse City, MI)

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GLENN LOOMIS A. B., M. s., M. A., L. L. D. 077277Z677C677267flf . . . A better name for graduation is commencement. lt is the beginning of life careers. Figures show that the days spent in school are the best preparation for a successful life. Educators agree that the prime purpose of a high school is to build a broad, firm founda- tion upon which your more specialized life career may be built. The great men in history are the results of the joys and heartaches, of successes and failures, of putting their theories, ideas, and practices to work in Life's school. Education is not complete upon graduation from any school. Learning in itself makes no one great. It is, rather, how you use it in helping to make a better community, a better world for all of us in which to live. Education is a living, throbbing force that drives the world. You know from your study of biographies of successful men that their success was the result of further study and experimentation to find the unknown bf using the known as a basis upon which to start. We hope your high school has given you that basis. Eric Johnson said, A nation's greatest resource is its capacity to be educated. If your school has created within you a desire to fill yourself to capacity, then you have something of greatest value. No one is ever completely educated. lt is only a matter of degree. Even the greatest still have capacity for more learning. There is always more to learn and to do. Education is growth. It is the never-ending process of evolu- tion which starts where we are and takes us toward our objective whatever it may be. Today you start. Go on with what you have. Add to it. Remember we must all go forward together. Great nations are the results of the lives of great people. Stand on the sound principles established by your forefathers. Yours is the privilege and opportunity to help build in a peacetime world an even greater and happier America in which all men are kings. You start from here. The finish is up to you. G. E. Looms, Szzpefinfencient. IGI

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BQARD CDF EDUCATICDN wi Zi We, the graduating class of 1946 and all underclassmen, sincerely thank the school board for their support, co-operation, and subsidy which made possible the successful completion of the year's projects and activities. ISI

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LA Clmllenge to The Class of 1946 You have just completed-a four year course in one of the thousands of high schools in the United States of America. It has tried to make you one hundred per cent American, believing in tolerance, equality and freedom of religion and speech. Although many of us may differ in our ideas and opinions when we are trying to solve world problems: crime, capital and labor, race discrim- ination and many others-we ITILISK not forget the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Therein lies the answer to ALL the problems of today. Your for success, GEORGE R. ANDERSON. 7 Sometime, if you have not already done so, try this experiment: Sit down in a quiet secluded spot where you will not be disturbed and make a picture of the kind of person you want to be. Take time to fill in the details. If, at the first sitting, the outlines and backgrounds are not dis- tinct, try again and again over a period of days, months, or even years until the picture is sharply defined. Then it can well be a blue print to follow. Gf course this is all in the mind. a vision, an ideal, but from such figments of the imagina- tion, men are constantly fashioning the good life. Now to fill in the details-Think of yourself as one who is fair-minded, tolerant, self-possessed when others are excited. Conceive of yourself as one who can take the pin-pricks, as well as the more serious hurts, without whimpering. See yourself as a person with whom it is easy to live, courteous, helpful, generous. And be sure the picture shows you to be ambitious, enthusiastic, industrious, willing to do more than is expected of you. If you can paint such a picture of the person you want to be, and have the energy to follow through, your success is assured. Best wishes. L. HocKsTAD, Principal, L