Big Spring High School - El Rodeo Yearbook (Big Spring, TX)

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P , L' be -1- Wye -W 'Sf-if WE DEDICATE THIS 1947 EDITION OF THE EL RODEO TO THE SENIORS WHO HAVE ADDED FOUR YEARS OF SUC- CESSFUL WORK TO THE GLORY OF BSHS. THEIR AIMS, THEIR AMBITIONS, THEIR SINCERE EFFORTS HAVE MADE A RECORD OF WHICH THE SCHOOL WILL ALWAYS BE PROUD.

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n'rf1Hv'11 1'f'i?-. - ,Y . t V' 'W '-'Vw' MESSAGE TO SENIORS Every year at this time our minds and hearts are turned toward the long looked for event of graduation. You seniors for four long years have planned, studied and worked toward this end. You have, I am sure, de- veloped physically, mentally, and spiritually through the experiences which have been yours. We trust sincerely that you have learned to think. We know that thinking is a very diificult process. We know that in order to think we must have ideas and that ideas come as a result oi knowledge and prior, thinking. Many times, no doubt, you have had ideas which were an inspiration to you and yet because they were your ideas you dismissed them as worthlesl. I should like to call your attention to the fact that an idea is a very power- ful thing. Someone has said, The most potent, powerful, revolutionizing thing in the world is AN IDEA. Ideas rule the world. An idea built the Universe. A single idea--the sudden flash of a thought--may be worth a million dollars, and ci trained mind can be the sponsor of a momentous plan. In your brain are real 'ideas of power' awaiting the miracle of birth . Believe in your ideas, weigh them, test them and prove them. Let me illustrate: Columbus' idea of sailing west to India gave birth to America. Edison had an idea--and gave the incandesent light. Andrew Carnegie flash- ed an idea into steel--and it paid him multi-millions. Woolworth hadjuat a 5 and 10 cent idea--but the stores he sprinkled over the country have made fortunes. Henry Ford's idea of the horseless carriage made him one of the most wealthy men the world has known. There are many hundreds of other illustrations that could be cited to you which would prove the power of ideas. I am merely urging you to learn to think your way through your problems by studying and formulating original ideas to be used in the solution of them.