Fenger Academy High School - Courier Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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To the Seniors, 1949: Dear Young People: Three things arc certain in life — death, taxes, change. The latter is demonstrable in our agriculture, industry, education, and social relations. Kaleidoscopic changes call for kaleidoscopic adjustments. We have made them. This law of change, and our adjustment to that change, is God's way of revealing to us the wonders of His universe. Thus, my message to you in this Courier is that you will ever be aware of the certainly of change; that you will continue to develop the habit of looking for change, the ability to analyze that which you will encounter through life and, above all, that you will learn the simple lesson of adjustment to that change. It is my sincere hope that Fenger has given you the ideals for meeting the changing society in which you find yourselves. I wish you well. In the future, as this Courier recaptures the memories of your dearest days, we shall watch your progress and happiness in this changing world. Principal, oln Seneij Sincerely you' JOHN E. SENEY 19

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We walk amid the currents of actions left undone, The germs of deeds that wither before they see the sun. For every sentence uttered, a million more are dumb, Men's lives are chains of chances, and History their sum. Napoleon at Gotha When I reflect how IittIe I have done, And add to that how Iittle I have seen, Then furthermore how little I have won Of joy, or good, how little known, or been, I long for other Iife more fuII, more keen, And yearn change with such as weII have run- Wishing-Jean Ingelow I've comforted here and I've succored there. I've faced my foes, and I've backed my friends, I've blundered, and sometimes made amends. I've prayed for light and I've known despair. Now I look before, as I look behind, come storm, come shine, whatever befaII, with a grateful heart and a constant mind, For the end I know is the best of aII. William Ernest Henley 18

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Education is by no means limited to preparing for life because even tho many of our educational activities do strive to prepare us for more effective later life, countless others of these activities do lead us to pursue a better and more useful life today. Try to find time each day to gain some new ideas and knowledge, to learn some new skill or to add perfection to some old skill, to practice better ways of doing and finer ways of thinking and acting, to train yourself to select what is good and wholesome, and above all, try to find the desire and the ability to use these things now to improve yourself and the place in which you find yourself. Remember always: life is long but we live it iust a minute at a time. ,fi ,Q JQAW