Bordentown Military Institute High School - BMI Yearbook (Bordentown, NJ)

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Mr. J. Harold Lucas

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,. - aff f. .. ,515--Hfrw 1 . ,...-V . ,,ivQws'9'1TTf'1'S'3?if- fi - 'K ' ,.- r , 1 J- ' .:c,.,,,.s, P, ta- if -r . ,faqs -I ' BORDENTOWN MILITARY UTE M7f!7 BQRDEN1-QWN, NEW Je OFFICE O RSEY F THE HEADMASFER INSTIT T o the Class of '57: This message is being written at the close of a very busy and trying day X February twenty-second. I have again watched the Cadet Corps as they put on for the parents and guests the ceremony that has become a tradition at B.M.l. Your class has played a lead- ing part in an unusually successful occasion. Most of you have been genuinely happy. I have seen it in your faces. Will you let me use' the experiences of this day to point out the reasons why, not simply on one day, but throughout an entire life, real happiness, real suc- cess comes to men. First, you have had the courage to tackle some hard tasks and the determination to see them through. Second, most of your activities today have been teamwork in a worthwhile program aimed to give pleasure to others and honor to your school. Finally, you have been giving not getting. Not only young people, but too many adult men and women seem completely confused about life 's goals, Yet it is just this simple: Never mind who gets the credit N it is the success of the team that brings real good to everyone on it, and benefit to the world. Any man by himself is a mighty small animal. Consider also the fact that no man was ever honored for what he got but for what he gave, and if people have seemed to show honor to the strutters and th tors of history, those honors ceased the m how selfish the dictator reall We V71 e dicta- oment people found out y was. ay feel that Washington is too far from 79 anything: but his courageous, unself' teach us most of the th' by th 57 to tell us ish and devoted life still can ings men need to know who intend to do right emselves and by America. You will better understand what l mean when you are twenty-five years older, and l hope for each one of you the useful and happy life that can come with that knowledge. Harold Morrison Smith Headmaster

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In Memoriam The Class of i957 dedicates this issue of The Sword and Sabre to the memory of Mr. J. Harold Lucas for forty-seven years a member of the Bordentown Military Institute staff and faculty rising from office assistant to the position of Treasurer, Co-Principal and President of the Board of Trustees. Two generations of B. M. l. Cadets remember his patience, kindness and unfailing interest in their welfare.