Goshen High School - Crimson Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Life's Highways are Happy Ways, When They Lead the Way to Friendship One of the two said-being freely translated-Do not ask me to leave you to return to my own people, for I desire above everything else in the world to he with you. Though your life to you may seem dark, to me it is bright as the sun. Your friendship to me has bound our lives together with ties that are stronger than blood relation- ships and more abiding than the love of Father- land. So let me go with you anywhere. Let your people be my people, and your God shali be my God. This appeal is a part of an old story that is known to all readers of good literature. It is a living contradiction to all the old threadbare mother-in-law stories. This mother and widow, with her two sons, had gone out among stran- gers into a strange land. There the sons married foreign girls. VVe do not know how long these new associations were in forming, but the story tells us in context that the elder woman, by a life of devotion or by innate winsorneness, had bound the young heart of one of these girls to herself by cords that could not be broken hy the greatest trials of human experience. So the young girl returns with the elderly woman to the early home of the latter. ln the years that follow the friendship born in days of deep sorrow bears fruit to cheer the life of the one who showed herself friendly. All highways are pleasant ways if they lead to friendship. In the story of Ruth and Naomi the highway over which Naomi passed seemed anything but a pleasant way until the brightness of her own true friendship was reliected back from the life of Ruth, and made pleasant the highway of her own life. Two elderly women were working side by side in an organization in which both were active. The hands of one were small, soft, and white, while those of the other were large, irregular in contour and ornamented with scars, the badges of much serving. The two w'ere heard to carry on a very animated conversation in which the one with soft hands said, lVIary, do you recall that nutting party we had when you and I were girls at home and neighboes near the old Sugar Creek School? 'fYes, Belle, and to think that after all these years we should be sitting here giggling and gabbing like two high school girlsf, To the onlookers these ladies were Mrs. L. and hflrs. N. But to each other they were Belle and Mary. One had travelled much and had lived in the large city. The other had always lived near the old home center, but the friendship of their girihood had brightened the lives of both all along their highways of life, and they too said, 'fLife,s highways are happy ways when they lead the way to friendship. J. W. FOREMAN. .01 , ifff 139' . ..,..., . ,,,. . , My fy, . f E My . r ft gf, we f 5 .'? fZs m f zz: g Wir A 1 9 xr 1 'I fr ,Ny QQ i, in J, 1- y if wf f . 1 ' ay f nw iw Q3 Q f Q ii . , 1Q1 ?f, ,fJ.jff07 ' .iaiijmis ,aff :qw 5f,Wf,f.' , X si-:5.s,q,1,1g:.:-g 5 at ' any .Lf ag'ff,.,Wg-Qgaggsgeil-,, f ' ' is fa ' an , -f ' ,,.fff,n,ff5 45,14 li .i 4,5 w,,,ff . v. ..rV,,, Q Mig f,Q.5,5,,-,W ,,,f..,,.4,, .aff--.swf-,-fy H - f .sr ma- ...tr 1 to My .N V, f ,..s,i-'few' f- ww ,fffawf f 'S Q A f ,. ' 7 in

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THE SCHOOL BOARD The Board of Education of the Goshen City Schools is entitleo to no little amount of praise for the manner in which the school system has been conducted. The ethical methods are considered by authorities as among the best in the state. A school system is as much a business organization as is a factory, a bank, or any mercantile firm. Consequently, it must be operated by business executives on business policies. In choosing members for a board of this kind many requirements must be taken into consideration. Among these requirements are the essential qualities of honesty and uprightness as Well as those of farsightedness and sound reasoning. Then there are the qualities of practicability and conservativeness, which are indeed necessary in the solving of crucial problems Which often confront organizations of this type. The selection of the Goshen School Board is made with the above features in view. Mr. Orlin J. Schrock, assistant cashier of the Salem Bank 81 Trust Co., heads the boardg lVIr. Amasa G. Hoovens, president of the Goshen Lightning Rod Co., and president of the City National Bank, fills the office of treasurerg Mr. J. M. Farrell, secretary and general manager of the Goshen Sash 81 Door Co., acts in the capacity of secretary. Mr. John XV. Foreman, who is recognized throughout the state as one of its foremost educators,.and who has served in his position for the past nine years, .is superintendent of schools. These men have had years of business experience, and to them goes the credit for the success of the Goshen School System. W Page 7

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School Ways The Crimson is the annual publication setting forth a part of the story of the high school life of the members of the graduating class. This period of progress is depicted in picture and story, making the annual one of the cherished possessions ol each member of the class. The period of high school life is a journey along the educational highway. It is only a small portion of the entire route, but it is the most beautiful portion. The elementary school life is past and the post high school highway of life, with its responsibilities, its sorrows, its joys, its worries, and its sharp contact with realities, is in the future. The period of high school life Ends the indi- vidual entering a new period of physical, intel- lectual, and social development. The environ- ment, the activities, the whole organization of society presents a new and wonderful perspective to the high school pupil. ln fact the change in perspective is as much as though the individual were placed in a strange and new land. New discoveries, most wonderful and vital are made. The same discoveries that have been experienced by the passing generations, but always new to youth. New experiences are encountered, new social adjustments take place, new curiosities are aroused, and all these reactions to the stimuli are made with the youthful enthusiasm characteristic of people of high school age. The adjustments, changes and decisions made by the high school pupils may appear crude and ineffective to the adult, but to the youth they are perfect and final. What finer and happier experience is there for an adult than to make an adjustment that is perfect and final? So what unlimited and abundant happiness there is for youth who is daily meeting and making such adjustments? H The most important activity is that connected with the pursuit of academic school work. To a majority the pursuance of this work and its mastery brings pleasure and profit. The social activities, the mingling of boys and girls in the building and halls, in assemblies, in athletic contests is a pleasureable social adjustment. The purely social activities, such as class parties, club meetings and school parties are important events that make lasting impressions. The close association with some teachers, the participation in athletics, the competition furnished by debating and oratory, the participation in class plays, the band and other musical organizations, all these are the activities that give training and development to the high school boy or girl. And all these activities are participation with a return of pleasure and happiness to the individual. Thus the high school period in the life of youth is a portion of lifels highway, a highway daily unfolding new experiences, new visions, and surprises. The passage along this highway is unclouded. lt is accomplished with sunshine, laughter, and happiness. Truly may it be said, HHigh'ways are Happy Way's. PRINCIPAL O. L. WALTER. . w76:m35Z'3?i Nr.rfZ?K.SY9.tIKw3M241?ia4.i:,'Z.2lf.2'ZQ2?'1?2.. Page 9