Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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STUDENTS TEACHERS PRINCIPAL SUPERINTENDENT BOARD OF EDUCATION PEOPLE OF KENTON

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THE ECHO STAFF OF 1945 with Bill Rosenthall Barbara Brown as as Editor Business Manager and WV .5 Hope That you enjoy this book, and as years qo by We are sure that you will cherish it for the memories it recalls.

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eniom. Keep Your Eye on the Ball! At the close of this school year you will have completed your high school course. ln this you are to be congratulated. Benjamin l:'ranklin's advice to youth was, Empty your pocketbook into your head and it cannot be taken away from you. He who has learned a trade has an estate. Both maxims are as irue today as they were in Franklins time. As you travel along through the years, do everything possible to help maintain the American Way of Life. Set your standards high while a youth and live up to them. You can if you will. Your knowledge is no better than your information. Be a student. Try to keep well informed about your job as well as current events. Don't allow your temper to overeride your judgment. This one thing alone can wreck your life's profession and happiness. One tactless remark, which should have remained unsaid, may be the turning point. Don't get nervous or excited about every little thing that happens and fly into a tempera- mental tantrum. Who wants to be around a person like this? Keep calm and you will live longer and enjoy life much better. Use smile words instead of grouch words. Act friendly toward people instead of assuming the role of superiority. A successful life comes only by hard work, honesty, integrity in all your actions, and efficiency in your job. Always look ahead but profit by past mistakes. Progress instead of regress. Don't hog-tie your personal initiative. Be- lieve in yourself. Work to the limit of your capacity and you will be surprised at what you can accomplish. Don't waste seven evenings a week doing nothing. Remember that you travel lifes pathway but once. Keep out of the ruts and even away from the edges lest you fall in. Be alert. Take off your blinders and be on the lookout for modern progressive changes in your trade or pro- fession. Employers in war plants pay a bonus to war workers for original ideas and inven- tions in order to make industry more effi- cient. lf you become habit-bound and tradi- tion-ridden, some forward looking individual will likely come along and step into your shoes and leave you sitting in your rut. Don't be afraid of work. Get things done on time.. Turn bad luck into stepping stones of good luck. Better to be a thinker than a talker -but when you do talk, back it up with facts. Become an authority in your field. Too many people who fail, blame everything on their surroundings instead of their own personal mistakes or judgment. They fail to analyze themselves. Cn his death bed Cecil Rhodes, who ac- complished so much in Africa, said, So little done, so much left to do. Horace Mann, president of Antioch College, told his stu- dents in his last illness, Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for human- ity. You are now at the forks of the road ready to go down the highway of life. Now is the time to decide if your life shall be a failure or a success. Here's hoping it will be the latter. L. E. McKinley