Middletown High School - Optimist Yearbook (Middletown, OH)

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R. W. SOLOMON SUPERINTENDENT . ' B. A., OHIO NORTHERN PH. B., UNIVERSITY or CHICAGO As you near the close of your High School days, it might be well to take a brief inventory of the wealth gained through these eventful years. You have no doubt had many happy experiences as well as somedisappointments. Now as you face the sterner realities of life, you should Iind yourselves better equipped to meet the tests which lie just before you. You should also realize that your preparation is not complete but be happy in the thought that you have at least made a good beginning. Our well wishes go with you as you continue lifeis eventful voyage. R. W. SOLOMON WADE E. MILLER PRINCIPAL B. A., HEIDELBERG A., 01.110 -STATE Centuries of history teach us that man usually feels before he thinks. Actions today are impelled by what we feel, more than by what we think. We are directed through life by our emotions, fired by the spark of an ideal. It is the wheel of experience, controlled by the brakes of Wisdom. The emotions generate the power, and the intellect directs and controls it. Emotion is the master, intellect the servant. Schools have always been active in developing the servant. In recent years a challenge has been presented, a more important matter, that of developing the master, the emotions. In our school we are meeting this challenge with our ultra-curricular activities. Athletics, Dramatics, Music, Fine Arts, Social and Religious Activities are the best media for this training. For this reason, it is our desire that each student participate in some activity outside of the regular class. The preparation of this book itself is such a training. Intellect, action, conduct, character follow in turn. We congratulate the makers of this book on its excellence. That, however, is only the visible evidence of the excellence of the training which they have received. In like manner, we salute and congratulate those who have participated in all our activities this year, not only because of the excellent results achieved, but also because of the unusually excellent training of the emotions received in that activity. May life continue to bring each reader such rare opportunity for the development of both the master and the servant. WADE E. MILLER

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Kathleen Banker B. A., Western MATHEMATICS An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. Helen Barkley B. S. in Ed., Miami HISTORY She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. Eugene 0. Barr A. B., Antioch, M. A., Ohio State PRINTING Wit is the flower of the imagination. Isabel Blair A. B., Mount Holyoke ' ENGLISH Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Minnie Chalfin A. B., John B. Stetson HISTORY AND ENGLISH Firmness is great, persistency is greater. l Ten I aaa 1 9 3 5 vnu: I 77 DD 77 C I' -I 'C CC K CC FAC Fay Clark B. A., B. S. in Ed., Ohio State SPANISH AND BIOLOGY, There is no wisdom like franknessf' Thelma M. Clevenger B. A., Ohio Wesleyan FRENCH AND CREATIVE WRITING A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Herman J. Copp B. S. in Ed., Miami ' MUSIC The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. Harold Draut B. S., Denison, M. A., Columbia CHEMISTRY Patience is the necessary ingredient of genius. Mabel E. Eldridge B. S. in Ed., Miami ENGLISH Gentle in manner, firm in reality.