Julia Richman High School - Spotlight Yearbook (New York, NY)

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PUHEWUHD The Spotlight this term is, of course, devoted entirely to the Seniors. They are the editors, the copy, and the theme. Why then has another focal point been chosen? Stop for a moment and consider. You and you and you are seniors. That's fine but you can't be put in a pigeon-hole and left there. Each one of you is an individual personality. Each one of you has some tal- ent, some special ability to do one thing particularly well. It is this talent that makes you different from the next senior and makes the next senior different from you. Talent then has to be an intrinsic part of the Yearbook. c'But I have no talentf' you are saying. True you may not be talented in art, or music, or Writing, but there are other talents. Some are far greater and more useful than these. For instance, look about your house when you go home tonight. See if the rooms are in order and notice the dinner. Doesn7t someone in your family have a talent for making a home? ls it your mother, perhaps? Then again your talent may not as yet be discovered. Thomas Hardy was nearly fifty before he started writing. Just the other day I read of an old Woman, the operator of a news stand in Wall Street for ten years, who has recently tried her hand at sculpture. This old woman,s work has been seen by experts and is called excellent. She, at last, has discovered her talent. But for all our talents, discovered or not, there should be one rule. They should be used and developed. There is no more pitiful sight than that of a great talent Wasted or permitted to lie fallow and decay. Whether you have special ability in science or Writing, in languages or dancing, put it into practice. Remember, only you have been given this special power to do this one thing Well. Above everything else, put your talent to work and use it for some good purpose.

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Wfar and rumors of war! That seems to be the keynote of the busy world in which many of you are about to take an active part. However, in this country of ours the daily life of men, women and children goes on much the same as yesterday. Most of us will not be called onto play heroic, spectacular roles, but rather the quieter ones of routine duty. VVe here in Julia Richman greet you, the members of our family who are leaving us, and hope that the ideals of living which all of you have been taught and the skills of earning a living which those of you who are about to seek work have labored to acquire, may make your lives happier, more gracious and more useful. I A 1 Principal