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

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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

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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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Fon rieen Miss RACHEL FooTE OUR DEHN Miss Foote, our dean, is one of the outstanding personalities of Forest. Miss Foote isan example oi what We all Wish to obtain: fairness, education, culture. She sets the standard for the students of Forest to follow, and her standard is a worthy citadel toward which to Work.