Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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school and what he makes of himself will depend largely upon his self discipline. A person who gives up and tosses his work aside at every obstacle, large or small, wil not have the successful life a person has whose self discipline causes him to go ahead, no matter what the obstacle. If some one had developed some kind of telescope that could look ahead into our future lives and give us some warning as to what to pre- pare for, life would become a simple matter. But as it stands now, we can ' t foretell the future. When we meet life as it really is, with its com- petition, physical handicaps, successes, and failures, there is only one thing over which we have control. It might be called tact, wisdom, personality or character. But I choose to call it self discipline. ROBERT ELLIOTT Salutatory THE TEST OF ONE ' S EDUCATION Today, we, the Class of 1946, stand at the threshhold of a new day. Our knowledge has not been gained over night. We have spent twelve years preparing for this special day. We have been guided by parents, teachers, and friends. We have had the opportunity to learn many things necessary for a successful future, such as: friendliness, obedience, tolerance, co-operation, and sportsman- ship. The test of our education is not what we know, but how we apply this knowledge. If we have learned to make friends, by being friendly; to obey as well as to command; to praise as well as to be praised; to meet disappointment with fortitude; to take advantage of our opportunities, and always apply ourselves to the best of our ability, then these may be said to be a test of our education. An educated person has self-control and a true sense of the values of things. He never goes to extremes. He doesn ' t become discouraged because of doubts or opposition, yet he must be able to recognize both. He must not consider failure or success as final. Education leads to success. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue. Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you. If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds ' worth of distance run. Yours is the Earth and everything that ' s in it. And — which is more — you ' ll be a Man, my son! — Kipling PATRICIA RITTER Page Tu ' ciity-oiii

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Valediaory SELF DISCIPLINE Discipline is defined in the dictionary as the training of the mind or character; therefore self discipline could be defined as one ' s own train- ing of his mind or character. In most cases all through our grade school career we were told just what to do by our teachers. When we were graduated into high school we were given more freedom by being given in general the privilege of choosing for ourselves what subjects to study. Now that we are almost through that stage, we wonder how it will be when we have to make our own decisions and act accordingly. During our high school career, many of us have had a chance to practice self discipline. During the basketball and baseball seasons the boys who participated were asked to train. This meant getting in at an early hour at least during the school week, and refraining from smoking and drinking. This training received, both in playing the game and ob- serving the training rules, will serve the players well in later years. The people who play musical instruments must practice for long hours to become accomplished musicians. This takes self discipline be- cause there are many temptations which would entice some students away from their practice. A fine example of the practice of self discipline in the field of science would be Madam Curie. She and her husband worked for years over tons and tons of pitchblende looking for a mineral, the principal properties of which they knew but they had not been able to extract this mineral. Finally, after countless failures, and with the use of the crudest equipmnt, the radium was extracted. New uses of radium are still being discovered. An example of how self discipline helped to overcome physical han- dicaps would be Glenn Cunningham. After being burned very badly in a school house fire, he was told by his doctor that he would never walk again. Vowing that he would, Glenn did all kinds of exercises until he not only walked but also became one of the best long distance runners in the world. The reason Glenn Cunningham, Madam Curie, and many others accomplished what they did is that self discipline had become second nature to them. This so called self discipline doesn ' t come to a person every time the occasion calls for it but it must be built up over the years. First one must learn to overcome the smaller problems or obstacles and gradually work up to larger ones. As far as we, the high school stu - dents are concerned, right now is when we should be developing our self discipline. Wherever a person goes, whatever he does after he gets out of high Pa e Twenty

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First row: Dave Smith, Bob Bled- soe, Bev Randolph, Betty V ' ' hitman, Bob Elliott. Second row: Mary J. Kohl, Eleanor Kabel, Roma L. Penick, Joan Hobbs. Third row: Dick Mann, Carol Sims, Charlotte Strait, Metta J. Parr, the Purdys. (above) Bob Elliott, Nancy Webb. Fourth row: Pat Ritter, Keith Folck, Jackie Shank, Mona Zeis. Fiftii row: Barbara Purdy, Bill Carr, Pat John.son, Yvonne Humphries, Pattie Fletter. l ' a; c Tuciity-two