Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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THE MED'N'AN X- yi 1 sl In the fourth place we must be Industrious. No one achieves success without I lots of hard work. It's easy enough to think that we will work hard and be indusf X5 l 1 'E trious once we are out in the world, but not only must we have the foundation for lx future success that comes from hard work in school, but also the habit of industry. Il Many people have found to their cost that they let things slide too long, and opporf 'S tunity passed them by. If we are to be successful we must cultivate the habit of I lgp industry now. P. T. Barnum, the great showman, said, Stick to your business and T you may be sure that your business will stick to you. It is this directing your whole mind and energies at one point that brings success. lf Last of all, we must have SelffReliance. Emerson, in his famous essay on Self' ax T Reliance says, 'LTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string! If we want to inspire the trust and confidence of others, we must believe in ourselves, not with 1' ...., . . . . l I' an arrogant, overbearing conceit, but with a quiet confidence in our own abilities. X. X- S , We must rely upon our own powers. It has often been said that if you think failure, is you will be a failure, and if you think success, you will be a success. To a certain it extent this is true. We must cultivate selffconfidence and selffreliance if we are to achieve. The man who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions is the one . Tl who succeeds. To quote Emerson again, What I do is all that concern me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve L for the whole distinction between greatness and rneannessf' I Let us then strive to set a worthy stamp upon ourselvesg a stamp of distinction, 'S by cultivating Loyalty, Responsibility, Industry, and SelffReliance. It is thus that lf we will build character that will be a real cornerstone to success. 'sl L May we always remember that, Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, our faithful shadows that walk by Us still. TL is . . , Lx sv Looking Ahead W ith the Class of 33 F ll TL lg . By Earl Clement -F ' . l L The question of what the future holds in store for us is one that can not be Q Q answered with a very large degree of accuracy. Even though predictions have some Il 'X information can be obtained as to what will prevail in the next few years, during X bg our progress toward maturity. X c ll They are our observations of present trends and the opinions and reports of lg people who have studied the past and present day conditions. E l These sources appear to justify the conclusions that we are entering a period which S ll will bring a decided change in our political, social, and economic life and which all will generate new possibilities, new fields, and new problems. 5 iff The Class of '33 can look forward to a world which offers not only opporf L tunities but also opportunities that are new and challenging. X' xx ig l L' .Hlrifziflziviz-'ZFWWFrWWzJWL:.WWr-4WFWJWEQZEMTJWFWLQZTJIEVFW IL Seventeen

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ff-ff ffsff ffdWdMdW T H E M E D I N I A N FJf1fff X 5 N . 1 Valed1ctory S The Motto of the Class of 1933 is CHARACTER IS 'THE CORNERSTONE OF SUCCESS. I By Dorothy Koehler ST 'For four years we have been trying to live up to it, but have we ever, in all that time, stopped to think what that motto really means? I tried to analyze it, and failing, turned to the dictionary for help. I looked for character first and found Q that it was derived from a Greek word meaning stamp, or, a mark originally used .X as a symbol of ownership. Going farther I found that character was the sum of X the distinctive qualities by which a person is recognized in distinction from others, 5. the sum of traits that make up a person's moral and mental being. 1 I stopped to think, what stamp have we set upon ourselves? For years our parents, teachers, and friends have tried to build in us those mental and moral traits -5 that are best and highest. As we go out into the world, we continually alter, either adding to, or subtracting from, the stamp that distinguishes us from others. What QT then are the mental and moral traits that we should cultivate if we are to lay our lx cornerstones of Success firmly and securely? What qualities must we build in our' X selves if the stamp of ownership we bear within ourselves is to be distinctive? Q Perhaps the first and most important quality we need is Loyalty, for it is so far' Q reaching in its implications. Our loyalty must be of the active, not the passive kind. I We must be faithful and constant to our families, our school, our work, and our x5 friends. We must be willing to give ourselves in their services. It is not enough, for instance, to be loyal to your school, or your job, in words. You must be willing Qt to show that loyalty actively by doing something for your school, by giving the best Q of yourself to your job. Another quality we need to develop is Responsibility. If we are to succeed 'Q in anything from the most trivial to the most important task, we must be dependable. A promise given should be so sacred to us that we would never think of breaking it. If we accept a task nothing should prevent us from accomplishing it. The teacher Q or the employer ought never to have to give the matter another thought. If we are I to be successful, we must be responsible and dependable, the kind of a person of whom it is said, You can always count on him. If he says he'll do it, he will. A third quality we should have is Honesty. This should apply not only to our acts but to our speech as well. We should be absolutely truthful in everything we say. No one ought to be able to say of us, Oh well, you always have to take what she says with a grain of salt. We should be honest in our thoughts, too, as well ,Rf X 'x N TL as in our acts and in our speech. If we are to lay a firm cornerstone to success we S must learn to look ourselves straight in the eye, so to speak, and tell ourselves the K truth. We mustn't kid ourselves along. If we have done a job poorly we must admit it if we are to avoid making the same mistakes again. If, as the poet Says, lx we are to rise on our dead selves to higher things, we must learn to be honest in N our thoughts. lg X .J .ff -..fffjf .ffiflfa ff-fAf-ff.f .ff'.f',f 'ff IM'-ff .ff ff flll ff Sixteen - '

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THE MEDINIAN iff'-H115 I What then will be the nature of this challenge which will offer new opportunif ties? Present social trends furnish our best clews for the answer to this question. A commission appointed during Mr. Hoover's administration recently completed a survey of social trends. It is true that the report of this commission seemed in general to be quite pessimistic. However, there are three conclusions which can be drawn from this report that are quite encouraging to a group of students graduating this year. These are, that people are beginning to realize the necessity of facing reality, that there is a trend from passive to active amusement, and that people are becoming less materialistic. When people actually face reality instead of backing away from it they im' mediately become cognizant of the problems confronting them, the solutions of which demand a change from present conditions. Facing reality is the first step in such a change. However, the mere recognition of the need for a change is not sufficient, action is the next requirement. A change from passive to active amusement is certainly a step in the right direction for one's attitude and behavior toward play is a good index of his attitude and behavior toward work. Nevertheless not action alone but action guided by the highest ideals, can secure a change for the better. Dethroning the God of Materialism promises this guidance, because it will result in directing men's activities toward things of a more benevolent nature. His interests will become more unselfish and his pursuit of cultural activities will be greatly inf creased. If these charcateristics continue to develop, the Class of '33 can expect a change for the better. Even though, up to this point, changes have been considered ,the fact remains that there are certain human qualities that have been tried and found worthy. The only change needed in connection with these is the placing of greater emphasis upon them. It is to be hoped that the Class of '33 will play an active part in the shifting of this emphasis. In the opinion of progressive educators it is the purpose of an education to teach students to recognize and appreciate the qualities, to instill in them a respect and an adherence to the best traditions of the past, and to place more emphasis on how to live rather than on how to make a living. 'They feel that the best things in the past and present will continue to be good in the future and will furnish a foundation fupon which to build a greater tomorrow. This, I am glad to say is the basis for the educaf tional program at M. H. S. The Class of '33 can look forward to a future which will contain the things which are everlastingly good and which will retain the best qualities of the past and present. With what equipment is the Class of '33 starting out in life? From the past it has inherited a country founded on democratic principles with its best traditions. From the present it has received an educational foundation. It has a future which promises a change for the better, a coninuance of the best things we have today, and the greatest of all things challenging new opportunity. Eighteen . , . X X. i X. NX Cxw I 'X X x X T Q I lil xx N. ! in lg X . X 1 -X v xx L Tl S L 1 1 K ,..'. F ,fif L D DL H N XfE'flf'-ff-f ff ff- X 1