Medina High School - Mirror Yearbook (Medina, NY)

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, Greetings RIE-NDS, at last you hold it, our cherished work, in your l1ands! All the year this Mirror has been our care, our hope. At last, you hold it, completed, and awaiting your judgment. We are pleading that you may not judge too harshly. Remember that it contains our very best, that each page is dear to us for tl1e memories that it calls up of the past year. Remember also that we have in- corporated into its- pages all our cherished desires, our highest ideals. Is it not worthy, if it contains just one worthy thought, one worthy ideal? This does not mean that we resent criticism. We expect it and await it as something due us. VVe have tried to harken' to the criticisms that those who went before us received, and in this way to make our book more nearly perfect. Are we not in some measure successful, if we have perfected it just a little? Are we not in some measure success- ful, if we have left a model, worthy in part at least, for those who follow us? But what is the real hope with which we have edited this Mirror ? It is that you may retain an exact reflection of this year, the last one if you are about to graduate, one of the most outstanding if you have not yet neared the completion of your high school course, or if you are one of the teachers in our school or one of our most valued friends out- side, that by means of this Mirror you may retain whatever of worth or of the ideal you have gained during this past year. Are we not success-ful, if we have accomplished, in some part, our purpose? However, do not think for a moment that we take to ourselves credit for whatever of worth there is in this book. All, all is due to those who have eo-operated with us either by contributing voluntarily and gladly their work to be printed or by offering us valuable sugges- tions and criticisms, and to those business men of Medina who have made this book possible by their financial aid. So now, dear friends, in judging, remember our purpose, to portray faithfully the annals of the Court of our Alma Mater, Medina High School, during the school year 1925-26. --The Editors. 0thers One of the ideals of our Senior Class is the word, Others How many of us really think of what this word actually signifies? Are we considerate of other people? Do we disappoint others? If we were only more thoughtful, we would not hurt and disappoint others' so often as we do. We should think how we feel when others hurt and Page 'Pwenty-four

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'- NHS .- disappoint us. At such times, we find it hard to smiley we think that the world has gone against us. Do hurts pay? No, they do not in any way. Then, why do we hurt other people? VVhy not make friends with others? We all 11eed somebody to do something for us. We need to have somebody to think about, somebody to fill our thoughts and to inspire our deeds. We, who think of others, we, who have time for our friends, shall be by far the happier. Let us all be doing something for others. Life, in any measure of abundance, is to live and to give. --Marjorie Ward. Books By this time we have all learned, that there are very wonderful and interesting things to be found in books. We can read what others are doing and thinking miles away, and what others did and thought years ago. The reading of books is, indeed, a great pleasure to both the young and the old, and we, the students of this age, ought to feel es- pecially grateful for the advantages that we now have. However, people have not always had books to read. There was once a time when people 11ever knew of such a thing as a book. The smaller children would often gather around some old man in the village, and would listen to his words of wisdom. These children often heard about history and stories of tl1e gods, but they were not given such a great opportunity as are the children of today. The people of ancient times didn't even know how to write. The only way that they had of representing things was by signs. Never- theless, a book could not be written by these signs, because they were very awkward, and many people could not read them. After many centuries, however, printing was invented. Then the people were able to print books, magazines and papers, which could easily be read. Many hundreds of books are now printed every year. Think of how much good and how much pleasure we get from books. We can read books about the lives of the people who lived centuries before us. There are also books that contain pathetic stories, dis- cussions and many other forms of literature. How thankful we ought to be for books, and how glad that we can read them. Books are worth far more to us than treasures of gold and silver. Let us students, the heirs of the ages, from now on place greater value on our books and give them their due consideration. -Margaret Gallagher. Pa gc 'Pwenty-fivc A