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

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F? 'i1J.:f?'R FL:I 'i 3 ? 'F1 52 1'2'51 'T f'f Ni ' r 1 1 4, ..- .'-Q .H QR --r 'tfqift fp EWU P' :.., Ing- 'I I 's W- E ll E ID 8.113 E L. A. C' Pi God Speed to Our Seniors Knowledge is Power -so ran the motto suspended in mid-air at the early High School Commencement exercises. It is to be regretted that in our own day there are hosts upon hosts still believing in the fallacy of that motto, even though the world is full of High School and College graduates who are walking encyclo- pedias, but recognized failures, because their knowledge is cold and lifeless. There is each year, however, an increasing number of people who are coming to realize that 'Experience' is the great vital factor in Education. It is to be hoped that in another decade or two, there may come to our vast army of American High School boys and girls, an all-pervading group consciousness, that to make a High School diploma a priceless possession requires untold actual and vicarious living. Living of such nature that the content matter of courses pursued is related to real life problems and life situations,-related so deeply, so sincerely, and so genuinely real, that the facts of History, Mathematics, Science, English and Literature become living power, incarnate, so that its possessor, sensing and feeling the deep convictions of school experience, becomes a man among men, exercising mag- netic power,-power that is foreign to a life of memory and cold knowledge, but that is acquired through genuine and sincere living. Therefore, in the light of the foregoing, my message to the graduating class would run as follows: Here is hoping that you have made the subject matter of your High School courses a part of your very selvesg that you have in a large measure lived and relived actually and vicariously, but withal genuinely, everything that could be brought within the limitations of your own life experiences. And here is hoping further, that you have come to realize that out of it all there flows not. only the issues, but the power of life itself. May you ever have to face genuinely realchallenging problems, so that out of your effort towards mastering them you may continuously draw out whatever promise of manhood or womanhood there lies within you 3 and thus unfolding, ripen in your sunset days into the very noble men and women that your Alma Mater confidently expects you to be. Your sincere friend and counselor, Superintendent of Schools. logos- Page Nineteen