Des Moines Technical High School - Engineer Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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JANUARY, 1927, CLASS PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS lNe are about to enter the most critical period of our lives, the choosing a life's vocation. If success is the goal for every one, as it should be, it can be attained by hard work. A vocation is merely the means through which success is reached. This experience of selecting a life's work is one that all of us have to go through. Much thought should be given to it long before gradua- tion time. Although it is a very difficult problem to solve, it means everything to us. If we should choose work for which we are not qual- itied, our chances to become successful in life may be ruined. Success is reached when an individual is happy and has a high rating among his fellow men. Therefore, we should be very careful that our choice of work meets our personal qualifications. A great many people go to college so they may learn the profession for which they think they are best fitted. Others learn trades or go into business. But no matter where we go, or what we do, happiness should be the greatest reward for our work. If our daily task becomes drudgery, and we would rather do anything under the sun than go near it, then I' say we have missed our calling decidedly. But if we delight in going to work and are enthusiastic in all the things we do, success is ultimately achieved. We have to have money to liveg yet, if happiness is lost, all the material wealth in the world means absolutely nothing to us. When we have found our right place in life, then hard work begins. W'e love it, but we have to stay by it and work. President Roosevelt said, Nothing is ever won without hard labor. How true that statement is. If we didn't have to work and sacrifice, our gain would be of no value to us. The following little poem clearly illus- trates my point: Diamonds are only chunks of coal That stuck to their jobs, you see. If they'd petered out, as most of us do, Where would the diamond be? It isn't the fact of making a start, It's the sticking that counts, I'll say, Itys the fellow that knows not the meaning of fail, But hammers and hammers away. Whenever you think you've come to the end, And you're beaten as bad as can be, Remember the diamonds are chunks of coal, That stuck to their jobs, you see. After our work is properly selected and we stick to the end, as the chunks of coal, with one more element success is bound to be reached. This essential that I am now speaking of is the faith we have in God. The great truth in the Bible inspires us and makes us want to live as He would have us live. A part of a verse that is very helpful at this time is, In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He will direct our paths. If we would acknowledge Him as He asked, it wouldn't be long until we would be traversing the long, narrow, straight path to success. Rov Fkowrck, President. Eleven