Commercial High School - Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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To flu' Class of 1937: Your graduation comes at a more favorable time than for several years. The outlook for eniployinent in business is much improved. The important question for you now is, Are you ready to take advantage of this improved condition? Mere knowledge is not enough. Success in business also requires a background of good character. If you have taken advantage of the opportunities you have had in the past four years to perfect yourselves in the skills necessary to good work in business and have the right character to carry it out, I have no doubt that you will succeed. I hope you will be a credit to your parents and to your school. VVishin0f you the best of success, b Sincerely, Q ' 9

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To 1lfClIlIIf'l'S of C. H. S. 1937: If there is any royal road to learning- or earning, or other success, it is the royalty that comes through lessons learned hy hard work, sacrilice and even failure. Sometimes I think that we have come upon troublesome times. and that the so-called good old days have gone, never to return. But one has only to look over the tiles of old newspapers, magazines or records to find that every age has sul- fered its troublesome times. So today is no exception. You have youth in your favor, and no harrier to success is too great for your sort to surmount. But ahove all things, do not he lulled into the dreams of get- rieh-quick schemes and an income without lahor. VVork hard, play some and read the best in news and fiction. Thus will come supreme happiness. ., if S 4-Y YU- R S

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To the 1937 Graduate: You of the graduating Class of 1937 are now ready to go out into the world. You 'ire ready to ask someone to buy your servlces. VVhen a 'food salesman starts out to sell a product he knows what the product fb can do and why it will be valuable to its buyer. The teclmic of getting a job is l l l. You must know what you much the same. Your ability is the product to Je so c can do that is, what you have to sell. VV hen you get the job you must make to , your employer in the form of work, a paying investment for the salary you receive. The outcome will depend upon yourself. Determine therefore to build your life Wort iy o to develop yourself in your person and in your w depend upon your skill, purpose, energy, and integrity. I f the best in you. Strive daily ork. Vocational success will May you use your opportunities well. Cordially your friend and dean, Q,YiQ, Q cacwgmvcu l 0