Central Commercial Technical High School - Cog Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Tempus Fugit A few short hours, the year is gone To rest with others, and anon ls but a marker in the flight Of Time, which knows not day or night Yet measures off immutable Destiny,-the inscrutable. Man little recks the number of the year, The countless hours before his advent here, Nor can he guess the number that may be Beyond the veil of all eternity. Yet, still they pass too swiftly, till the child Becomes a man, by age to be defiled And then go back unto the earth again His short life lived, Death trumpets its Amen! Could we but total all he left behind Would lasting good outweigh the futile mind? Would all the effort of those countless years, Replete with joy and sorrow and with tears, Say that no time was wasted, that no deed Was little worth the time, or that the need That called for exercise of brain and brawn Was but to Time the purpose of a Pawn? Perhaps, and Yet the virtues of the past Might far outshine the evils of the cast. 'Tis well to bear in mind that Time once spent For good or evil was but to man lent, And that it waits not on the will of him Nor is it subject to his rule or whim. W.S.P. Copyright l937 l 0

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To The Senior Class Four vears ago when the Class of i937 came into being, the world was in the midst of a business and industrial catastrophe that was probably without parallel in all history. Our well-being, happiness and perhaps our very existence were threat- ened by the failure of our economic system. We had, in I933 and for several years before, seen banks close and shops and factories shut down, and industry in general in such a chaotic condition that there appeared to be no redemption. For several years we had witnessed the futile struggles of humanity to lift itself clear of the depression, in which we were merely individuals in a world apparently gone mad. For most of us, the cause of t-his sad condition was not the most important consideration. We simply knew that the situation existed, and we wanted to do all in our power to get out of it. Most of us gave intense thought to the manner in which we could best accomplish this object, and I am constrained to believe that far many of you in the Class of i937 the decision to come to Newark Technical School was the first definite step to overcome the disadvantages of the economic situation. ln your favor, of course, was youth with its never-failing courage. You had, in addition, an ambition born of adversity and it is of such that really great men are developed. About the same time most of you made your decision to enroll here, a ray of sunshine -had finally penetrated the industrial gloom. ln this way l believe you were favored. Certain definite signs indicated an upward trend in business shortly after you started your courses. During your second and third years here, this upward movement became decided, and during the present senior year there -has been absolutely no question. We are again on our wayl So, you men of l937, you are particularly fortunate that at a time when you are completing your work the demand for trained men, and particularly young trained men, is very great. I have no fear for your future. The past is behind you, while the days that are to come must be rosy and golden. Your success in the future is, in the main, based upon your own efforts. I have known all of you for the past four years. l don't believe l need say any more. Clo on and conquer-the world is before you! c. 1. KIERNAN

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