Macomber Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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PRINCIPAL F. M. Dannenfelser X , f - fi- , , Q f . If Y , 1. ' . ff A TO VOCA TIONAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES - GREETINGS UU, as a Vocational High School graduate, should have a philosophy of life. You must do some hard thinking about yourself and the reason for your being in this world. You should have a clear picture in your own mind what life is about. You should have a plan. You should know where you want to go and what you want to achieve in this life, then you must work out the way or method by which you can fulfill your expectations and desires. Some think we are on this earth just to have a good time, and they spend most of their time chasing around seeking pleasure, trying to be happy by satisfying their physical desires. Others think the world owes them a living and they expect to collect it by doing as little work as possible. Many others think it is a merry-go-round, a revolving door, leading nowhere. What's the use, they ask, Hyou can't get anywhere anyhow. ' ' By this attitude they are licked before they start -these are the weak -they lack imagination, interest, enthusiasm, tire, drive, push, or punch-they are the mushrooms of life-growing up over night and perishing just as fast. The leaders, those with imagination, initiative, industry, and action say that life is an opportunity, a chance to show what we're made of, and that life gives us a chance to accomplish something of value so that we may be of service to ourselves and our fellow man. Life is a struggle, and you, who recognize it as such and prepare for it, achieve the greatest success and attain the greatest heights. Because life is a struggle, you must prepare for it. You have made a brief start by graduating from this practical high school. This should give you an advantage in helping you to get a job in the business and industrial world. You have skill and technical knowledge,

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PROPOSED NEW VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Covering the entire block bounded by 15th, 16th, Monroe, and Washington Streets the new Vocational High School is intended to serve the entire city as a training center for boys desiring to enter the skilled trades. Mr. Cotter, Director of Industrial Arts and Vo- cational Education, who has made an intensive study of similar buildings in other cities, believes Toledo's building and curriculum will be the most outstanding in the country. The friends of Vocational Education who have waited and planned many years for this step forward in education in Toledo will find the money invested in Vocational Education returned with high dividends to the citizens of Toledo in the form of trained and competent tradesmen, who will contribute to the industrial growth of the city. '

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in your chosen field of endeavor, with which to face the world. These should give you confidence and self respect. You have just started, for education is a continuous process, it never stops-it starts at birth and ends at the grave. If you want to attain a position of leadership, you must continue to read and to study, if you do not, you will soon he left far in the rear by those who make this effort to keep up to date. Don't lose sight of the fact that skill and technical knowledge are only a few of the require- ments of the job. Your ability to sell yourself to your employer is just as important. Your attitude toward your employer, your work, and your fellow worker will do much to determine how far you will go in life. Don't forget that loyalty and cooperation to those for whom you work and with whom you associate will do much to create their confidence in you. Doing outstanding work is the best way to call attention to yourself. Boosting the fellow ahead of you to a higher job, to make room for you, is the only way to win promotion. Continual knocking and criticizing is a sure way to place yourself out on the street looking for another job. Some individuals are so stupid that they spend their own time and energy knocking the organization of which they are a part. They are really criticizing themselves and their work, because they are a part of that organization. Having a happy, contented countenance and thinking of the welfare of others will do much to speed you on your way to success in both social and business life. You should develop the fine art of getting along well with others. VVatch your health--study your own body, your physical make-up and find out how and why it functions as it does. This is a decided asset for without health you cannot do your work well or enjoy any other pleasurable activities. During the first twenty years of your life you build up-never again will you have so much energy and stamina. From twenty to forty, or there-abouts, you stand still, that is, you surely will not have any more speed or strength or well being than during these years. From forty to sixty years you start to go back, to decline in physical well-being. From twenty to fifty are your most productive years. Develop yourself into a man or woman of outstanding mental ability. Be an expert in some one field of work-no other single thing will give you so much in personal satisfaction. Study your- self and human nature until you understand yourself and your fellow man. This will help you attain emotional stability. It will keep you from becoming temperamental and emoting at home and in places where you are employed. By this, l mean, you will learn to control yourself and others because you will have a better understanding of human nature. You will not become self-centered, self-conscious, or selfish--you will not lose your temper and blame others for your mistakes-you will not be as critical of others but will realize it is easier to criticize than to create. To attain the fine success you so much desire, know and do some one type of work super- latively well, be an expert at something, take care of your health so that you have physical well being and stamina, develop a pleasing personality and strength of character, work well with others, develop the Hne art of getting along well with your fellow man, develop your ability to think analytically and logically. Learn to concentrate and stick to a job until you carry it through to completion. Have it said of you that you are dependable, that you do your job right and on time. Be loyal, cooperative, and keep criticism for yourself instead of others. Be clean, honorable and strong, and you cannot fail. My desire for every Vocational graduate of 1937 is a successful life career-a useful, happy, peaceful, and contented life. F. M. Dannenfelser Prinfzjval