Bennett High School - Beacon Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Bennett Beacon 7 Mr. Rhodes'Greeting to Entering Pupils 5L.,3m,-,,f:5w WELCOME you to Bennett. Get that at home feeling from the very Hrst. Until you do get that feeling you will waste time and energy. B 'av . 5' . , . You have entered a new phase of life. You.w1ll find things very different from what you were accustomed to in grammar school. You are now looked upon not as children but as young men and women who can be trusted to act as such young people should. You are thrown far more upon your own resources. Of course, much more is expected of you here because you are older and can do more for the school and for yourselves. Look upon the teachers as your friends. They want to encourage you and to help you. Do not hesitate to consult them when inclined to be dis' couraged or when you are in difficulties. You will find some hard problems to solve here. Do not wait to solve them for that makes it still harder. Solve them at once. If you cannot do it alone call upon your home room teacher or come to me. The next four years will very largely decide your success or failure for your whole life. Time wasted here can never be recovered, it is forever lost. You cannot afford to waste time for the reason that if you do you will have to take one or more extra years to get through high school. Improve all your time from the very first. That means you must come to school on time every morning. Tardiness counts against your school standing and makes it much harder to keep up your work. Do not undervalue a high school education. Many do. Only about forty per cent of those who enter high school ever graduate. So work that you may be sure to be among the fortunate ones who not only finish, but finish with honor. That means winning scholarships which help to pay for your college education. A college education is becoming more necessary every year, but the colleges are so overcrowded that they accept only those who are well up in their high school classes. It is difficult to get into college and diflicult to stay in, but, if you do good work here, you can go ahead and succeed in college too. If you are not going to college, do not despise a high school education. When one wants a position today one of the first things he is asked is: Have you a high school education? If you cannot answer yes, you will get no further consideration. Now is the time to settle all these matters and to get a good start. The right kind of start will help you very much all along the way. I hope you will enjoy your work here. It is perfectly possible to enjoy one's work and work you do enjoy is the only kind you ever do well. Be sure that you understand education as a means of learning how to live, to take charge of your owri lives wisely. Some one says: Education is the