Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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14 Annual Broken stairways where the feet Stumble as they climb. Build today, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure, Shall tomorrow find its place.” IV. In its closing clause our text links success with eternity: “ for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.” Our fourth essential of success, therefore, demands that we view our life’s work from the perspective of eternity. In the divine scheme of world evolution each particular generation has its own peculiar task, and only he can be said to be really successful who fits his individual work into the collective task of his generation. I wish to congratulate you young people on the terrific difficulty of the task of the generation to which you belong. Since the last class of this high school graduated, there has developed in this world a situation which a year ago we dreamed not of. The world war now being waged puts a new aspect upon everything. The social, political, religious, moral, intellectual and spiritual problems of this generation have been peculiarly affected by this war. A veteran of our Civil War said to me not long ago that the war in Europe will put America back in every way at least a hundred years, and 1 am afraid that he did not much overstate it. Altho the war is beyond our own borders, and we hope and pray that it will stay there, nevertheless when it is over, there will remain in our country for the next generation a mighty problem of reconstruction. Not only is there this particular lask of reconstruction thrust upon your generation, but tlieie are also the hoary and bearded evils with which every generation has wrestled, but which are still unconquered: “ The whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes.” Yes, young people, the generation to which you belong confronts some mighty prob- lems! God, in His wisdom, has honored your generation by giving to it tasks of peculiar difficulty. Never forget that although as an individual you may achieve material or social or professional success, your life can not be counted really successful unless you have contributed substantially to the accomplishment of your generation’s God-given task. It is essential to true success that you view your life-work from the perspective of eternity, which means that you fit your individual task into the collective task of your generation. l.et me close with my text’s note of urgency — “ Sheol, whither thou goest.” Sheol is soon and the task is so great ! The Laymen’s Missionary Movement has for its slogan, “ The world for Christ in this generation,” and as a subsidiary motto, “ This is the only generation that we can reach.” There is in this a universal truth. Young people, this is the only generation that you can reach, and if you are to leave this old world a little better than you found it, you must do it now! Now is the accepted time! Now is the only time ! “ To each man’s life there comes a time supreme; One day, one night, one morning, or one noon, One freighted hour, one moment opportune, One rift through which sublime fulfilments gleam, One space when fate goes tiding with the stream, One Once, in balance ’twixt Too Late, Too Soon, And ready for the passing instant’s boo n To tip in favor the uncertain beam. Ah, happy he who, knowing how to wait, Knows also how to watch and work and wrnit, On life’s broad deck alert, and at the prow To seize the passing moment, big with fate. From Opportunity’s extended hand, When the great clock of destiny strikes Now!

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Annual 16 LUCILE ISLA MAI ALLEN Glee Club, 12. “ Keenest powers to see and. hear, Seemed in her frame residing.” BEATRICE BLAKSLEE Glee Club, 12, 13, 14. “ Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where’er she goes.” EARL B. ARICK Glee Club, 12, 13, 14. Cadets, 14. Football, 13, 14. Baseball, 14, 15. MILDRED ARNOLD Glee Club, 15. “ To see her is to love her.” JULIA M. BAILEY Glee Club, 12, 13. “A soul that thinks no creature harm.” FRED O. BOHLEY Football, 11, 12, 13, 14. Football captain, 14. Baseball, 13, 14, 15. Cadets, 14. Glee Club, 12, 13, 14, 15. Class play, 15. “ He hath such friends as every one Should wish to have.” DOROTHY CAROLINE BRAD WAY Basketball, 15. Glee Club, 12, 13, 14, 15. Annual board, 14. Pianist, 15. Class poem, 15. Class play, 15. “ Not blither is the mountain roe.” BESSIE BREYLEY Glee Club, 15. Normal Student. “ Cloudless forever is her brow serene.”