James Monroe High School - Monrovian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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Office of the Principal GRADUATION TIME: June, I932 Dear Friend: UnderTake noT whaT you cannoT Perform buf be Careful To keep your Promise. A young boy named George WashingTon wroTe ouf This precepf aImosT Two hundred years ago as parT of a charf by which he infended To sTeer his own life's course. Our environmenf differs greafly from ThaT in which George WashingTon grew up, buT life iTseIf goes on in The same way. The mariner of Two hun- dred years ago sailed in a ship far differenT from ThaT used Toda , buf The norTh sTar, The sun, and The compass by which he guided himself are The very same means ThaT The capfain of The Leviafhan uses. In This IasT message To you as a sTudenT of This school. I urge upon you To read The rules of conducf ThaT Washingfon laid down for his own guidance, and parficularly do I place before you The rule wiTh which I begin This leTTer. IT implies firsT of all ThaT you know yourself Thoroughly: ThaT you are honesf wiTh yourself: ThaT you do noT allow vain conceiT To fool you info Thinking ThaT you are greafer Than you are, buf also ThaT you do noT permiT false modesTy To hold you back from doing The big Things ThaT you know you can do. OT course The rule ThaT we are To be careful To keep our promises To oThers. has been preached To you for many years. I hope ThaT you have made iT parT of yourself. There is anofher phase of This rule wiTh which you may noT be familiar. WhaT abouT promises To ourself? Do you consider Them also as sacred? When you pledge yourself To a cerTain line of acTion. only of course afTer weighing The worTh-whileness of such course of acTion. are you as parTicuIar abouT keeping ThaT promise To your- self? JusT as you cannoT refain The respecf of ofhers To whom you have made a promise and failed To keep iT. iusf so you cannoT mainfain your self-respecf if you pledge yourself To a cerfain procedure and Then fail To live up To iT. To Thine own self be True And if musf follow as The nighT The day, Thou cansT noT Then be false To any man. Ivlay your fufure be mosT happy and successful. May your life be such. no maTTer how high or low The parT you have To play, ThaT The CiTy will feel iTseIf more Than repaid for whaf iT has generously expended upon you. Sincerely yours, r HENRY E. HEIN Principal 6

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In recogni+ion of her kind under- slranding, pa+ien+ e1CFor+s, and willing services, we dedicafe Jrhis book 'ro ANNE D. C S N ehweq 8