Glenwood High School - TNT Yearbook (Glenwood, IA)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION DR. XVILLIAM M. PLIMPTON - - - - PRESIDENT WILLIAM C. RATHKE - SECRETARY ROY L. HANEY -------- TREASURER STEPHEN M. CRISWELL, TRUIE B. VVORKMAN, EARL R. HERRICK, NVILBUR B. BROXVER. CHARLES H. CHEYNEY, JOSEPH D. IRONMONGER

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MESSAGE TO SENIOR CLASS Class of 1923: The exercises of the approaching Commencement terminate your relations as stu- dents in the school. Here some of you have spent the years from early childhood until the present. Here all of you have passed that most important period of life when the character of the man or woman of after-years takes form from the chaotic elements of childhood. Many of your number it was my pleasure to greet upon your entrance into this world. Indeed I mention this fact with pardonable pride. Some of you I have watched with growing interest since your first assignment to classes in the primary department, but my twelve years of school board service must seem a short period of time when compared with your corresponding twelve years as pupils in our school. As you stand at the threshold of your graduation and my duties terminate as an official of the Board, it is my pleasant privilege to bid you God speed on your entry upon the broader field that is to be the scene of your life successes or failures. As children you were received as a sacred trust to be prepared for that life work to which you are now looking forward so eagerly. Throughout all these years that we have been so pleasantly associated, you have pursued your studies with an earnestness that bespeaks high hopes for your future. You will not make the common mistake of believing yourselves to be wise by virtue of the knowledge you have obtained in our schools, a mistake that will lead inevitably to humiliation and pain. Your harvest has not yet commenced. You have only looked upon the fields of golden grain. Your hands have only grasped the sickle bright and keen. When the command comes for you to go forward with the other reapers you will have need of all the ability acquired through these years of preparation. Some branches you have studied for the absolute value of the knowledge they con- taing others for the purpose of cultivating your reasoning powersg and still others that there might be awakened in your hearts a desire for that broader culture, that higher life that so vividly exemplifies the truth that man was, in the fullest sense of the word, created in the image of his Maker. The struggle for existence is yearly becoming more desperate and the individual who is not thoroughly equipped by education is soon apt to find himself hopelessly drift- ing into the dependent classg in other words, the way to promotion is open to those who are thoroughly prepared by education and training, while it is forever barred to the ignorant and indifferent. My message to you is: Use your acquired knowledge intelligentlyg make it count as you engage in the activities of life. Remember, now and always, that life is no idle dream but a solemn reality based upon Eternity, and encompassed only by Eternity. In wishing you unlimited success I assure you that I express the sentiment of the entire School Board. Sincerely yours, W. M. Plimpton, Retiring President t