Fergus County High School - Fergus Yearbook (Lewistown, MT)

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C. H. SCHERF Principal Wc t ffrintiparg Jflessage To the Grad uating Glass of Fergus, 1926: Our friendship, yours and mine, has been brief, but I feel kindly and sincere. The pleasure and the privilege of being associated with you for a year, to both you and to me a very important year, is one that I hope neither of us will forget. The wish and the hope of being of service to Fergus has been mutual. My feeling is that your zeal for the success of our mutual enterprise will be no less than mine. While you go to other fields and I stay here with Fergus, I feel sure that we all will have m our hearts the future success and growth of our school. In this parting I wish to leave with you one thought that I hope will be helpful. “Be yourself! Temptations to imitate, to mimic, to follow the crowd, will be innumerable and strong. Remember that you have a life to live and a life to build. You will have to be the architect of this building if you wish it to be yours. Strength of character does not come from leaning or from following. It comes from leading — be the captain of your own ship. It is easy to drift—hard to set one’s course and stay by it. If you would truly succeed, however, you must be original, sincere, self-reliant, sometimes unbending. I do not mean by this that I would have you unsocial or anti-social; you must live m a world made up of many elements and you must adapt yourself. However, you must maintain your individuality in spite of outward circumstances; do not be swayed against your better judgment, against your better self; be fearless in being yourself. Be loyal to the better traditions of Fergus — do not forget us — we will not forget you. C. H. SCHERF, Principal.

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