Edison High School - Edisonian Yearbook (Lake Station, IN)

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Congratulations to the graduates at Commencement Season ! Truly, this is for you a beginning of a new era in your life, bringing with it new opportunities, new responsibil ities, new interests, new friends, new joys, and new sorrows. Your education does not end with graduation from high school ; it will con- tinue throughout life. Some of you will continue your education at institutions of higher learning, but most of the mem- bers of the class will seek employment. The immediate objective of your employ- ment is the pay you will receive, but the more remote is your success in life. Charles M. Schwab once said, “The best investment a young man starting out can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies to work, just plain hard work.’’ Work is the foundation stone of success. Be enthusiastic in your work. Every man is enthusiastic at times; one man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life. Be ambi- tious to succeed, devoting all your energies to achieving your goals, making sure of a greater goal ahead each time you attain your immediate objective, for ambition is like a torrent — it can never rest or look back. “Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and some absurdities crept in, but forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old non- sense. ’ ’ — Emerson. The great aim of man’s creation is the development of a grand and noble character — and a great and good character is, by its very nature, the product of the discipline of self. Cyrus once said, “Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.” Good character cannot be developed without the exercise of good common sense. Strength of character is shown in the honesty, humility, mercy, kindness, reliability, patience, hope, and charity evidenced by the truly noble. I wish you the best of success and the greatest happiness for each day of your life. Virgil I. Bailey Superintendent of Schools Virgil I. Bailey Superintendent The 1952 Edison ian 7

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Melvin Anderson, Jr. President George Garber Secretary Fred L. Kitchel Treasurer BOARD OF EDUCATION Clara Donovan School Clerk Newana Rush Principal ' s Office Clerk 6 The l!K)Z Edisonian

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The time of graduation is an impor- tant occasion in the lives of the members of the Class of ’52. It is a time when everyone of you is looking to the future. Some are thinking of college days while others are planning to secure jobs imme- diately in industry, stores, offices, etc. If there is any one thing I hope you have learned more than others during tin- four years spent here, it is that work is the most honorable thing in life. A life work along useful lines is a successful life no matter what degree of fame or fortune is the final result. There is nothing more repulsive than to see a young man spend his days in seeking his own idle pleasures without adding one thing mental or material to this great bustling and needy world. A poet has given us a beautiful thought along this line of thinking : “If the goal is worth possessing, it is worth the price in pain; If you have a dream worth holding, it’s worth struggling to attain; For the joys that last the longest, as the distant bends are turned, Are not the easy splendors, but the joys which you have earned. “If you’d reach the mountain’s summit, you must have the will to climb ; If you’d rise to fame and glory, you must work and bide your time; For the victory that’s sweetest when life’s full returns are in Is the one that tried your patience and took all your strength to win.” In whatever endeavor you take up, may you ever remember the thought the poet has so ably ex- pressed in these few lines of the poem. With this thought goes my best wishes for success to each member of the Class of ’52. Claude P. Roos Principal Claude P. Roos Principal Each person who starts out in life hopes that the path will be smooth, the hills easy, the sun not too hot nor the winds of winter very cold. In other words, we dread the hardening and toughening process which nature seems to need to make sturdy men and women. 8 The 19a2 Edisonian