Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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in alrr Annual ilarraluurratr ESSENTIALS OF SUCCESS BY REV. H. SAMUEL FRTTSCH, D.D. Pastor First Congregational Church Ecc. 9:10: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in Sheol, whither thou goest. This is a tried and true prescription for success. It is natural and right for every human being to covet success. The normal mind glories in the successful completion of every attempted undertaking. To all self-respecting persons failure is repugnant and repellant. It is the privilege and the possibility, the duty and the destiny of every human life to be successful. Failure is unnatural and abnormal; the natural and normal experience is success. I count it peculiarly opportune that at this particular juncture of your lives, you young people should give serious attention to the essentials of success. Your presence here

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®1jp Annual 9 (Ealruiiar of (Cmmtu ' umni ' tit BACCALAUREATE SERMON Congregational Church, Sunday Evening, June 6, 1915 7:30 (Central) Prologue and March — Organ ---------- Rogers Invocation - -- -- -- - Rev. P. W. Hass Anthem, “ A.wake! Awake! Put on thy Strength ’ ’ ------- Case Scripture Reading -------- - Rev. W. V. Edwards Praver - Rev. S. F. Dimmock Offertory Solo, ‘ ' The Penitent” (Van De Water) ----- Miss Brintnall Sermon ---------- - Rev. H. S. Fritsch, D.D. Hymn No. 459 Benediction - -- -- -- -- -- - Rev. V. S. Goodale Postlude CLASS PLAY Princess Theatre, Tuesday Evening, June 8, 1915 7:30 (Central) THE MELTING POT Cast of Characters David Quixano ----- Joseph Seymour Mendel Quixano - -- -- -- -- -- - Glenn Weisz Baron Revendal - - -------- Branch Pierce Quincy Davenport, Jr. - -- -- -- -- -- Fred Bohley Herr Pappelmeister ---------- Emanuel Tintsman Yera Revendal ---------- Dorothy Bradway Baroness Revendal ---------- Genevieve Nichols Frau Quixano - -- -- -- -- -- - Doris Searles Kathleen O ’Reilly ----------- Anna Holcomb Stage Managers, Property Man: Harold Burnham, Karl Jenks, Helen Tubbs, James Thayer. Publicity Agents: Grace Hartman, Alfred Dannley Scenic Artist, Florence Leach Assistants, Mildred Pettit, Ruth Burkett COMMENCEMENT Congregational Church, Thursday Evening, June 10, 1915 7:30 (Central) Music Class President’s Address - - - Branch Pierce Class Prophecy ------- James Thayer Solo: a “On the Road to Mandalay’ -------- Oley Speaks Solo: b “ I Hear You Calling Me ” - -- -- -- -- Marshall Fred Bohley Class Statistics Louise Stan- Class Poem - . . - Dorothy Bradway, Helen Tubbs Class Will Joseph Seymour, Dana Whipple Class Valedictory - Edith A. Shepard Music Class Address, “ The Making of a Life ” Dr. Henry Churchill King, Pres. Oberlin College Presentation of Diplomas - - - - W. S. Edmund Benediction R ev . H. S. Fritsch

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©I ye Animal 11 tonight is testimony to your past success. It means that you have been successful in your studies and examinations, and have brought your high school course to a worthy comple- tion. You are to be highly congratulated on your past achievements. But you are not here tonight merely for the delicious sensation of listening to congrat- ulations on your past success, you are here for a more serious purpose. These are your commencement, not your completion, days. Although these graduating days inevitably cause you to look wistfully back over your happy high school career, yet today your faces front the future as never before, and more opportune and appropriate than our congrat- ulations on your past success are our wishes for the success of your future. But you already know from sad experience that it takes more than wishes to mate- rialize access. If good wishes would pass examinations, every scholar would always be marked .100, or A plus. “ If wishes were horses, beggars might ride,” is the old saying, but you have learned that it takes more than a “ pony ” to get successful grades. Your future success, young people, depends upon something more substantial than our wishes, sincere as they may be. Your future success is conditional on your own application of certain practical principles, on your own adoption of and adaption to certain eternal essentials. Surely we can not better occupy the time we are to be together tonight than by a discussion of these principles and essentials of success. I will present them as they are contained in the chosen text: ‘‘Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.” Four essentials of success does this ancient prescription present. I. The first essential is effort — “ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it.” I suppose it is true of success, as Shakespeare says of greatness, that some are born successful, some achieve success, and some have success thrust upon them. But by far the greatest proportion of successes are those of achievement. The others are the rare and seldom exceptions., Success is not the child of luck, but of pluck; not the result of acci- dent, but of effort. There is no royal road to success. Men are not carried to the sky- heights of success on flowery beds of ease. The price of success is work, labor, energy, effort ! It is one of the most deadly and dangerous fallacies which supposes that genius is essentia] to success. Genius, according to the popular notion, is that peculiar inborn quality which makes success easy and certain. It is that which people have in mind when they explain a person who is a failure in everything he undertakes, by saying, “ It simply is not in him to succeed,” meaning that success requires that a person have in him some peculiar quality of genius. To be sure, the person who succeeds must have genius in him — but it is the genius for work! Says Ruskin truly: “Whenever I hear of any young man starting out in the battle of life, and praised as being a man of promise, a man of genius, I always ask just one question, ‘ Does he work?’ ” That is the decisive question, “ Does he work? ” In my day I have seen several “ infant wonders ” and “ knee-pant prodigies ” for whom, on high school class day, the class prophet made wonderful predictions, but the prophecies never came true simply because the wonderful prodigy went out into the world believing himself to be a great genius to whom success would come as a matter of course. He had to learn by bitter experience that the stern Goddess of Success bestows her laurels, not upon those who have “ swelled heads,” but upon those whose muscles and joints are swollen with labor! Young people, never forget that the first essential of success is effort. Work wins! Effort is effective! Labor conquers all things! Perspiration is a mighty good substitute for inspiration! Remember Robert Collyer’s homely suggestion, “A man’s best friends