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

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it ,I We it if f .1 4... ve A. .-r... A, - . A : .TQ , . Q.. Y O? w YEA 4.'.gguf V ! .J Vit hs- F: A, w ,f-N f-xl? PQ ,XXX 1 , . E 1'-4 , , , V, 'V' A ,X - J.,--xv Mr v V I 5 ,f as 1' -HY 'H' . A- ' vu' , ' xl lJ A W 1 ' I X. : , Ill 5' I . I . . n ' n s-I---in I f I . , .. .. A - . g- , QED and ISLACIQ A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots 'whose flower audi fruitage is the world. -EMEnsoN To the Senior Class of 1929 Each year of your school life has brought to you added difliculties and responsi- bilities to the end that most, if not all, of you are conscious of those inter-relationships and inter-dependencies which make possible the freedom and happiness of mankind. Life will test you to determine whether or not your school has fitted you for a society larger still-the World, in which you must now assume a deeper responsibility than has been your lot heretofore. If your roots are widely spread in the richness of those things which are our cultural heritage from the past-the ideals, the knowledge, and the relationships for which your Alma Mater stands, and if these things have become a part of your being-you need not fear whatever test may come. With your graduation will come commendations for your accomplishments and injunctions as to the manner in which to meet the new phases of life which lie before you. To such commendations I, perhaps, can add nothing. Indeed the greatest commendation you can receive on this earth is not comparable with your own con- sciousness of growth and purpose-coming as it must from obligations honestly met and work well done. You are your own best judge. And our mistakes,-of course we have made some-may they serve to make us broader, finer men and women. It is to be regretted that I do not know all of you with the same intimacy that I do some of you, for I am sure it would have multiplied the pleasure and inspiration which I have received from our association. Among your problems will be the development of the faculty of living and Work- ing with your fellowmen in an appreciative and co-operative manner. Then, too, you must learn to utilize your spare time in such a Way as to secure a maximum of happiness with none of the taint of cheapness or superficiality. Throughout your work and your play there must exist a purposiveness such as can only come through conscious. planning and effort. May your ideals be high but not narrow, your requirements of self, exacting, your courage unfaltering, your thinking liberal, and your tolerance great-more I could not wish for you. Your sincere friend, Principal of the High School. 1029 Page Twenty one