Forest Avenue High School - Forester Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Page Twelve DHRING, DOING. SHHRIN G a hundred inventions were made in their day, there will be a thousand new ones tomorrow. You can be one of those long-range thinkers, and I dare you not to give up until you shall have produced at least one creative idea, until you shall have given the world your masterpiece in creative thinking. I-Iow important is your personality! I dare you to develop a personality that will be magnetic. I challenge you to make your personality attract other people. I know that personality is more or less intangible, but I also know that it is real and a tremendous force in one's life. I realize that personality is more or less illusive in its nature, but you can develop it so as to become magnetic and inspiring. What are some of the characteristics of the great personalities you have known? For one thing, the people who haven magnetic personalities are sympathetic. They can put themselves in your shoes. They understand you in your ambitions to get ahead in life. Those who inspires others are also thought- ful. They never forget their fellow Crusaders at their elbows. Thoughtful persons give themselves away, and their valuable possessions multiply when they II.. are shared. 'A p it But my friend, hidden down in every human, being is some of the Divine. To say it as another has said, there is a little bit of God in every human being. By nature man has the capacity for spiritual life, and unless it is developed the body, mind, and personality cannot function at their best. One must be born again, born from above. Old things must be left out of our lives, and all things must become new. This new creature in Christ decides for right when he is confronted by temptation. He is at all times fair, honest, just, and trustworthy, because he has the Spirit of Christ in, him. As long as you are true to your trust from above and faithful to your fellow men, that long will you love your home, your school, your church, your city, your state, and your nation and be loyal to the government. With your life thus positionized it becomes richer, fuller, larger, and better as you shape each experience into a new and finer experience. F or you now, I trust, the completion of one good deed will be only the beginning of another worthy undertaking. I hope you will do one good deed after another and say nothing about it to anyone. That is the kind of daring, doing, sharing life that I am challenging you to live. I want to close this little message to you with a quotation from Dr. Fosdick in The Meaning of Service. The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clear and cool, from I-Ierman and the roots of the Cedars of Lebanon. The Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, for the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. IT GETS TO GIVE. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the lordan plain. But the Dead Sea, with the same water, makes horror of it, for the Dead Sea has no outlet. IT GETS TO KEEP, and that is the difference between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. That is likewise the radical dif- ference between a selfish and an unselfish man-the former gets to keep, while the latter gets to give. We all do want life's enriching blessings, we ought to want them, they are divine benedictions. But some men get to give, and they are like Galilee, while some men get to keep, and they are the brackish water that covers Sodom and Gomorrah. --WYLIE A. PARKER.

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DOING, DHRING, SHHRING I should like to be personal with you, and as direct as if we were engaging in conversation with each other. Look at those three words again, for there is much power in the life that dares, does, and shares. Such a life is one of adven- ture, and there are tremendous hidden possibilities and responsibilities in it. If you will make this secret power your very own, you can never be the same person again. lt will extend your horizon, broaden your outlook, and discover in you new capacities for living and growing. lt will produce such a light in you that others will search you out to receive light and warmth. I would have you remember always that you have only one life to live, and what are you going to do with this life? I hope you Will resolve every day to live as if this were your last day on earth, that you will dare to be your best and do your best, that you will give a portion of yourself away as you remember that you get to give. I want you to desire those things that are of permanent value, and to develop and use your talents for the glory of I-lim who gave them to you. William H. Danforth says in his little book I DARE YoU, Our least valuable possessions are those which, when divided, are diminished, while our most valuable possessions are those which, when shared, multiply, those which are actually increased by sharing. As you read this little message, I want you to keep in mind that your life is four-sided, and that you have not one but four lives to live. You have a body, a brain, a heart, and a soul to develop, which is to say you have a tour-fold opportunity to grow. What a golden opportunity to use these wonderful gifts you have as you launch out on another lap of the way. You are to enjoy physi- cal adventures, mental adventures, social adventures, and spiritual adventures, all at once. The more you pour out of your life, the more you have to release, the more you share with others, the more you have for yourself, and the more you give, the more you get. You agree with me that health is essential to individual success. Health is the foundation of a nation's progress. A hollow chest and a pair of droop- ing shoulders will never get you to the top of the ladder of achievement. About face! Muscles strong! Chest up! Head erect! I do not know any secret to health except just plain common sense. I challenge you to exercise every' day, and to attack this problem of health in the right attitude. Walk a mile a day, drink eight glasses of water every day, and get eight hours of regular sleep every twenty-four hours. You will succeed or fail individually in your quest fort physi- cal fitness. Nobody else can do this for you. I leave this thought with you: Physical strength is the backbone of success and happiness in every walk of life. Get health and keep it. I remind you that your brain is one of your big assets. I beg you to set your mind free for big things in life, and to use it for all ther power it can. give you. Think, think, think! The big prizes are for the people who think, for the people who dare to think hard, to think often and intelligently, and. tot think creatively. I have never seen a time when there has been such, ag demand for ideas. The Edisons and the Marconis were the long-range thinkers of yesterday, but where 5 Page Eleven

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BOHRD OF EDUCHTION DAVID W. CARTER, IR., M.D. ...... President MRS. W. P. ZUMWALDT . . . . VicePresident C O M M I T T E E S Finance Buildings and Sites Gabe P. Allen L. O. Donald L. O. Donald Gabe P. Allen Dan D. Rogers Supply Mrs. W. P. Zurnwalt L. O. Donald Fred D. Danford Rules Dan D. Rogers Mrs. W. P. Zumwalt Mrs. W. A. Leeper N. R. CROZIER L. V. STOCKARD Superintendent Assistant Superintend oi Schools oi Schools Fred D. Danford Lunch Rooms Mrs. W. A. Leeper Dan D. Rogers Mrs. W. P. Zumwalt Welfare Fred D. Danford Mrs. W. A. Leeper Gabe P. Allen IULIUS DORSEY ent District Superintendent of High Schools l A l Page Thirteen