Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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THE RED MR. DANA NISWENDER Mr. Niswender is one of our new teachers this year. He received his Ph. B. degree at Kenyon College. He is taking post-graduate work at Ohio State University. He spent the past three years at Canal Fulton, Ohio, where he was principal. He teaches American History, English Literature, Economics, American Government and Sociology. He is Faculty Advisor of the Delta Delta and Literary Critic of the Annual. Mr. Nis- wender is well liked by all his students and we can ex- pect great things from him in the future. AND BLACK 130111-75- Mlss lx vrnmx AILNIXI x Alisa Mumma is one o our loca teachers of note. She obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Vniversity. She has taken post graduate work at Columbia. She taught three years at Tontogany, Ohio, before coming here. She teaches Sophomore English and one class of Freshman English. She has quite a little teaching experience and is thus enabled to make her subject very interesting. Wle are proud of having produced such a,teacl1er and wish her the best of luck in her chosen line of work. 4 t NIR. JoN,x'1'11.xx B. LADD Mr. Ladd is a product of one of the neighboring cities. Bowling Green. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State Normal College with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education. He majored in French and is. therefore, very able to teach that subject. He intends to go abroad this summer and study at the University of Lille at Boulogne, France. YVe hope that Mr. Ladd will return next year. .31.

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22 THE RED AND BLACK FOR 192 Message to Graduating Class EAR FRIENDS-Members of the Class of 1927. Over the gateway of an ancient school in England is carved this motto: Man- ners Makyeth Man. I would like to change this motto to read Admirations Makyeth Man. It is an extreme statement but deeply true. We live by our admirations. If those who have the guidance of youth could control their admirations, they could con- trol their character. I talk to a young man or a young woman l am not so impressed with what they my or what they do as I am by the person or thing they admire and the passion which they evince for their admirations. You are in the process of becoming the man or woman whom you hope to be and the man or woman will be determined largely by your admirations for certain deep things of life. There are certain great fundamental sanctions of life to which we must give our unfailing loyalty for they are sanctions which are eternal in their values. I trust l may help you in this message to realize something of the importance of having worthwhile objects of admiration in your lives. May I suggest three-truth, beauty and goodness which if made the objects of sincere, loyal devotion will make your life commanding and your influence supreme. It was Lincoln's devotion to truth and goodness that caused him to tower over our great land like a Collosus. What is it makes the Lincoln memorial near Washington one of the sacred shrines of America? It is not its beautiful, white marble columns, it is not its pure classic architecture. No, it's the inherent greatness of the man which our nation recognizes and honors. His integrity and leadership represent all that we hope democracy Will sometime be. Pick up the great shell, the Gettysburg Speech, and listen to the echoes of great ideals that are deathless. There is a legend in ancient My- thology that Hector took his little son Astyanax out to the gate of Troy and said, Oh, gods, make my son greater than his father. Thus showing his faith in the deep things of life. It is a great thing to find something bigger than you are, and it is a great thing to believe in it. The road to the summit lies over that hill and you will never attain to what you can be or ever achieve what you hope until you climb. The poet Keats, with his imperishable dreams of beauty, the beauty that is more than surface deep-life- deep-Well illustrates the influence of the power of devotion to the admiration of beauty. His was a life built about a great passion for beauty in nature, life, music, art and literature. Over a century ago there was a group of Oxford men of brains, personality and power who studied the Greek Testament so profoundly that there came out of it a commanding passion to go up and down England persuading men to a life of good- ness which changed the whole English nation and likewise affected even America. The great leader of this movement was John Wesley. I trust that you with your dauntless, eager youth, boundless resources, fine idealism will build your life around some supreme admiration. Light your hopes for a new dawn, ask for the torch and gird your loins for the great calls of this new time with its manifold opportunities. I cannot chart for you the skill necessary for the work or vocation which you will enter. I can only point out to you a few of the unfailing guides that will insure the richest experience, and the .23.