Coopersville High School - Zenith Yearbook (Coopersville, MI)

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tiuJs the greatest hope for peace in the world. The crying need of our untry today is the trained mind, the skilled worker, the creative thinker, great is the need that our continued existence as a nation depends upon it. Vo'arc currently in a race with Russia in the production of scholars. Out qRuyational system is being challenged by a nation whose success is Wse tupon assignment and control, something we despise rather than on free will and free choice, things we cherish. This race will be won or lost in the class room where scholars develop their minds. The great men of America are saying this daily in the newspapers. In our school there is a weakness in this respect. A number of our stu- dents, who are fully capable of doing good work in the most difficult sub- jects offered, are detouring around these subjects to others of lesser difficulty. Classes such as Physics, Chemistry, Advanced Mathematics, Foreign Language should include these students, but do not. Why? If encouragement is needed, we offer it; if getting by is your highest aim, con- sider it; if you are understimating your ability, ask about it. Let us continue to be more concerned with scholarship and the con- tribution scholars can make to the national need. The urgency is vital. Russel F. Conran High School Principal 5

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Scholarship Scholarship is our most important product. It is the key to opportunity; it is accepted at college; it is qualification for the job; it is an end in itself. Pride in scholarship needs cultivating. All school teachers attempt to do this. It seems to me that we have succeeded to a degree over the past few years. Attention to and interest in good scholarship appears more in evi- dence in the number of books students take home, the friendly competition for positions in class standings, and in the mere increased number of stu- dents who bother to inquire about their standing. Mental ability is largely an inherited thing. It comes built-in. What use is made of it is the important thing. Those who are without it, don’t miss it; those who have it and appreciate it are modest; those who use it to profit are wise; and those who misuse it are pitiful. So fast is the pace today, and so far have we gone down a new road of space conquest, that a keen mind has become a resource more valuable than uranium. It is the greatest weapon in our arsenal, and at the same 4

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