Draper Central High School - Dragon Yearbook (Schenevus, NY)

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THE DEANS MABEL A, BOWEN PAUL M. JEPSON Sfale College Plaifsburq Sfale Normal Malhemafics and Science fl-Ja,-uf7'I1-T.a' ELEANOR M. SCHOENBORN DOROTHY P Slafe College I Middlebury English f ' Social Science 777. U ' The Sem Class of I937 fakes fhis opporfunify fo express Hs boun D ss graiifude lo 'rhe deans for fheir inexhausrible pafience ' in helping us make each of our enferprises successful. For Their efficiency and fhoughffulness we shall always remember 'fhem wi+h mingled respecf and appreciafion.

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f,ccu l ml l - Xi PROGRESS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE The high school graduafe of I937 faces a more complex world Than any of his predecessors. Whefher he inTends To confinue his formal educafion or whefher he infends To go info indusfry. he has a more varied and possibly a more momenfous choice To make Than high school graduafes before him. Man occupafions formerly open To The high school graduafe now are open only To The college graduafe and many formerly open To The college graduaTe now require one or more years of graduafe sTudy. The boy or girl choosing college. Technical school, or business school musT choose his career four or more years in advance in order To reap The fullesf benefif of his educaTion. The graduafe wishing To commence his gainful occupafion immediafely has a difficulf choice To make. Too offen he Takes a job wiThouT considering The fuTure. Too offen he is forced To Take'The firsf one open because of economic necessify. ln order To live abundanfly a person musT develop as age and capacify for developmenf increase. Therefore iT is well To look for a posifion wiTh opporTuniTy for advancemenf so ThaT your life may be full as well as your pockefbook. There is a Tendency among humans To reduce life To habif. If This is done iT means ThaT a person has arbifrarily limifed The environmenf To which he is To reacT. and. Therefore. has shuT ouT The possibilify of furfher development This does noT mean ThaT The individual should noT acquire man habifs, b'-T iT does mean ThaT There musT be a sphere of acTiviTy. beyond The habifual. where There is a place for The furTher develop- menT of habifs. Colvin sa s: The difference befween The erson who confinues To make progress all Through his life. and The one whose real Iii is ended in early man- hood is ThaT The former always possesses an open mind and The aTTiTude of finding in his environmenf furfher possibilifies of adiusTrnenT. Therefore, leT us remember, when we choose a vocaTion. or an avocafion, or any form of recreafion. To choose Those acTiviTies which lead To furfher acTiviTies and noT Those ThaT keep us in a ruT. LeT us keep in mind ThaT real social progress depends on The progress of The individual as well as on new invenfions and new scienfific discoveries. HOWARD E. BAKER.

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f N5 u ll 1 ' .- - V 4 .ANY A nal' .5 . Ni '11 I lg l Lk' its 21 ls' 1 g, .. Q 12 OUR PERSONAL PROGRESS IN HIGH SCHOOL Try To look back a Tew years To The Time when we enTered Draper as Treshmen. Yes, we may well smile, Tor we did bear a marked resemblance To Those Timid creaTures who came inTo our group This year. We Tind iT hard To believe ThaT we. boisTerous and wise, old morTals ThaT we are now. could once have been so backward. so innocenT. and so modesT. Now, as we reflecT on The subiecT of our own advancemenT. we come To The realizaTion ThaT Tour years oT high school Training has had iTs indelible eTTecT upon us. We have been educaTed wiTh The TacTs abouT The world in which we live. We undersTand The TuncTioning of our government we can use, To The besT advanTage. our English language: we know someThing of The business meThods employed Today. We may well Take pride in being so TorTunaTe as To live in This modern age when men look forward and Train Themselves Tor a glorious TuTure! Draper. wiTh iTs many club and class acTiviTies, has given us The opporTuniTy To develop our special abiliTies. We have been Tossed inTo one large mixing bowl-our school-and sTirred unTil we are so closely relaTed ThaT everyone is an inTimaTe Triend oT each of his classmaTes. BuT This mixing bowl TreaTmenT has noT been Too hard on us, Tor even now we glow wiTh enThusiasm over our social developmenT. Dances. games. and enTerTainmenTs have aTTorded us opporTuniTies To ioin The crowd and share iTs pleasures. Four years ago. we were ToTal sTrangers To one anoTher. We came in small groups Trom This elemenTary school and ThaT. Today, we are an organized class-a class wiTh uniTy oT spiriT! ForTunaTely, ThaT unified spiriT has noT meanT unified characTer. Our characTers are alike only in ThaT They have been aTTecTed greaTly by Those of our classmaTes. ConsTanT associaTion wiTh varied Types of people has acquainTed us wiTh The ways QT The world and iTs inhabiTanTs. These relaTions wiTh oThers have also impressed upon and developed wiThin us The finer sTandards oT characTer. The Tireless eTTorTs oT our Teachers have embodied wiThin us such desirable TraiTs as responsibiliTy, eTTiciency, and iniTiaTive. WiTh This record OT progress behind us. we may conTidenTly look 'forward To new and beTTer living in The TuTure Tor which we have been so carefully prepared. DOUGLAS DI LLEN BECK EdiTor-in-chief. 8