Coalinga High School - Petrolia Yearbook (Coalinga, CA)

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Page Sixteen Q L1 .Ji'l'l'fll1Al.. STAFF - - e - Tlellqwun Oliver - f- Douqlas Anderson - Elbert McGlashan mrs, Pearl 119. Driscoll - Theodore A Ellestad Assistant Printing lnstructor Raqmond J. Caseq Editor-inechief Jlrt Editor - Business Manager Facullu Adviser '- Printing Instructor EDITORIALS Once more the school year has come to an end and with it com- mences the life work of the graduating class. Each year the process repeats itself, heartbreaks for few, joy for many. The graduating class steps into life beyond the walls of Coalinga High and will soon be a part of two different worlds, the one in which the inhabitants are still questing more education in the halls of higher learning, and the other, where life is more stern and education is gain- ed from experiences rather than from books and the lips of the learned. For every graduate we wish success. To each one of them we would say: Do what you do as well as the man in you can do it, with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your honor, and all your brain. Build your foundations well, otherwise you are plan- ning a magnificent failure for your superstructure. During our school life education and the ability to do things in a practical way have been strongly emphasized. Mastery of the thing attempted, see ing the job through to the end -'these we have had constantly before us as the ideals of attainment. X J il

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Paqe Sewntwn r Education, opportunity, courage-one is of little use without the other two, and the three in proper measure, coupled with cheerful- ness, faith, will, hone, and desire, constitute the forces that must inevitably resort in success. Of all the teachings we have listened to these seem to stand out above all the others: First, -when you meet knowledge, seek to understand it, then to re- member it, and finally to apply it to some useful purpose. The sum of these constitutes power. Second,-a perfect machine works smoothly and quickly: a keen edge does not hesitate or grate: likewise, a bit of knowledge that has been really mastered can be used instantaneously and without effort. Third,-fundamental greatness lies in tackling a job, doing it well, and not quitting until it is finished. Every really human heart feels joy at mastering something and annoyance at half mastering it. And above all,-though we may never attain all of our ideals, we should keep them floating on and on before us. The sailor never reaches the north star. Yet, without anorth star, he could never come to port. The words of Orison Swett Marden come to mind as we close- You are victory organized, you were born to conquer, to playa magnificent partin life's great game. But you never can do anything great or grand until you have such a conviction of yourself and your ability. May we quote the lines of an anonymous contributor: The Quitter You're sick of the game? Well, now that's a shame: You're young and you're brave and you're bright. You've had a raw deal, I know, but don't squeal, Buck up, do your darndest and fightg It's the plugging away that will win you the day, So don't be a piker, old pard. i Just draw on your gritg it's so easy to quite-- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard. It's easy to cry that your'e beaten and die, It's easy to crawfish and crawl, But to fight and to fight when hope's out of sight, Why, that's the best game of them all. And though you come out of each gruelling bout. All broken and beaten and scarred-- Just have one more try. It's dead easy to die, It's the keeping on living that's hard. 7 . ' -v