Jesup Scott High School - Scottonian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Of Richard Langstaff-who this year became the second principal of Scott High School after serving faithfully 22 years as teacher, coach, and dean. It is our sincerest wish that he as leader of Scott may have a future as brilliant and successful as has been his past. OF the Faculty-who long have been wonderful as teachers and friends. May it ever be said of them that Never has so much been owed so few by so many. Of the Students-graduating into a world that promises an early peace and manifold opportunities-a world of happiness and good will. Of our Scott-may it rise to new heights and glories, and long reign as best of schools. And last-to the future of the United States, -that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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TO MR. DEMOREST: IEXCERPT FROM A FAREWELL ADDRESS I The baclcward loolc presents a pleasant picture. During the years you have achieved much. It is no mean achievement to have stayed as principal of the same school for nearly a third of a century. It is a greater achievement to have talcen a school at its inception and to have woven into its very warp and woof the ideals of your own character, to have created an idealism that has become traditional. For that thing which we call Scott spirit is the expression of your own character, of your integrity, your honesty, your nobility, of your love of people, and faith in humanity. But the greatest of all your achievements is that you have lived that all may love you. You have never been lcnown to do any- thing rude, thoughtless, or unlcind. Al- ways you were a gentleman. It well may be said of you, as it was of Marcus Brutus, Cl His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man. There is not a boy or girl who has passed under your tutelage but he has been the better for it. There is neither man nor woman, who has been associated with you, who bears you any malice. ln truth you can say, as that same Marcus Brutus said of GIVEN BY MISS CLARE HUMPHREYI his followers, l have found no man but he was true to me. As you turn the corner in that part of your journey that leads away from Scott, you do not go alone. The love, good wishes, and everlasting respect of all loyal Scott students, past and present, go with you. They accompany you in such abund- ance that they fairly wrap you round, they close in upon you until you become im- mersed in this ocean of love and good will. Your example of living a truly good life will long stand out as an ideal. You, Mr. Demorest, will always be remembered, and Scott will be proud of you forever. thirteen