Enid High School - Quill Yearbook (Enid, OK)

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To the student not far removed on either side from Graduation Day, Enid High School is the embodiment of all school sentiment, tradi- tions and ideals. The name, Enid High School, expresses the aggregate of all that goes to make up student life and it has a peculiar charm. As the years go by and school life becomes less a reality, and more and more an incident to the development of the life that follows, E. H. S. still holds a first place in the aff ' ections, because of that intangible something called spirit, which interprets the conception of life in E. H. S. The spirit of Enid High School stands for idealism. In fact, spirit- everywhere is idealistic. Every workman with the true ideal struggles to become the master of his art, and by his zeal he learns to step out of and above the common. Every art, every literature, every science has had master craftsmen, inspired by idealism and truth. Music has had its Mendelssohn and its Beethoven ; painting, its Rembrambt and its Raphael ; literature is Vergil, its Schiller, its Shakespeare and its Milton ; history, its Herodotus and its Gibbon ; science, its Darwin and its Pasteur. To know the master craftsmen and their work, is the purpose of life in Enid High School, and it is the purposeful spirit of E. H. S. produced in the student, that brings to him the light to see the master artist in his field. To each student who comes to E. H. S., there is a particular work; there is opportunity, if he has the ability to grasp it. If he is enterpris- ing and earnest, he will become imbued with the spirit which pervades the school, which will give him the inspiration and strength to reach out and up. In catching the spirit for himself he creates it for others. That student who studies to learn the true spirit of E. H. S., becomes an heir of all the past, and what each master has done with toil and hard- ship, is his abundantly. He who learns to know the spii ' it is victor, be- cause all victory is the outgrowth of spirit. When in the days to come, the spirit of E. H. S. is felt in the heart of every student, Enid High School will receive the gratitude due her from those who learned from her the ideal of service; and each worker, while giving his best, will live to the ideals of truth and honor which she has fostered. — Caroline Power.