Dobson High School - Dobsonian Yearbook (Dobson, NC)

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Many years ago Chaucer ' s pilgrims wended their way to Canterbury and served to liven up the way by telling tales. Today we seniors wend our way toward graduation, and the members of the other classes wend their way toward life in a new school. May these pleasant tales of our activities here serve to liven up our pilgrimage and to remind us ever of the happy days spent in fellowship at Dobson High School.

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1901 FRIENDS , Until you prove yourself in a community, you will be judged by your friends and by their deeds and by the impressions others have of them. This is a reasonably accurate criterion for in a free and mobile society, we usually are drawn to people who have similar tastes and desires. You will, as time goes on, make relatively few deep and lasting friendships. They will last only if tliey are based on mutual respect and understanding. Friendship is something that can never be bought. It must be earned and earned constantly through consideration, sincere interest, and the giving of yourself, oftentimes at personal sacrifice. In friend¬ ship, dependability takes precedence over ability. In a democracy you pick your own friends. That is as it should be. You should, however, take time to chose wisely, and I should hope that you could contribute something to the well-being and pleasure of your friends and that they could reciprocate. I I YOUR FINANCES . Generally speaking, in our country, a man to be self-respecting, must be self-supporting. There is no freedom without responsibility and that applies to economics as well as political doctrine. I have seen happy people with very little more than the bare necessities of life, materially speaking. I have seen unhappy people who had accumulated great wealth. But I have never seen a happy person, be he rich or poor, who had a steak appetite and ahumburger income. If you want something you must also ask yourself if you are willing to sacrifice the time and effort to buy and take care of it. There is an axiom that adults learn --but often too late --and that is that it may be good business to go in debt to buy things with a permanent value, such as land, houses, or securities (and, of course, education falls in this category), but it is almost always bad business to go in debt for things that are fleeting and once consumed have no further value. Live within you income and save a reasonable amount of what you earn. If you were to start now putting aside 10% of your income or allowance and invest it in good stocks, you would be surprised at the way your estate would grow. If you adopt this 10% rule and keep it inviolate, you will have a comforting reserve when hard times come, and believe me they come to us all at one time or another. PLANNING AHEAD . They used to say circumstances make the man. Today the word is Men Make Circumstances. You should be sure of what you wish to do, then you should go resolutely forward in that direction. Remember that the way you walk a mile is to take the required number of steps. Greatest progress comes not from spurts and stops but rather from steady, consistent effort. The only way you can make steady, consistent progress is to plan ahead, not just day by day but year by year. Modern businesses, for example, require their executives to plan at least five years ahead and to make such a plan each year. This establishes the goals and also drives home the point that it takes consistent, steady effort to attain those goals. How you plan your work and use your time is important but not nearly as important as that you do it. In planning ahead keep in mind that it is a human failing that we all like to anticipate success, acclaim, and leadership. We do not look forward with the same zest to the work and the effort that has to go in attaining our goals. The weak point of most plans is the tendency to wait until tomorrow to put the unpleasant pajrf of the plan into effect and to be impatient for the benefit to descend upon us. So endeth the message from the Class of ' 26 to the Class of ' 61. , Y ' Up until now you have been building castles in the air -- that is where they should J?e -- now put foundations under them! pig’rg sttrg our class to matcl] lljcm rmfel ' aspire.

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1 I For his efforts in our school recreation pro¬ gram, for his ability and example in the classroom and on the athletic field, and for his interest and help in our total school pro¬ gram, we, the Senior Class of 1961, are proud to dedicate this edition of the DOBSONIAN to MR. BRIGHT. A coach there was, and that a worth-yTnan. 5