Moore High School - Lion Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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AVERY R. DOWNING Superintendent IN YOUR HANDS LIES THE SUCCESS OF TOMORROW Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Those words of President Kennedy express an important part of the work that you are doing now in your public school life - young Amer- icans ready, eager, and equipping yourselves to serve your country while at the same time fulfilling your own best potentialities. We ask that. you be conscious of your role, developing all that is best for tomorrow's great and wonderful America. I2

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L. V. McNAMEE Assistant Superintendent In the opinion of a great educational organization whose purpose is to give direction to school academic endeavors, the central purpose of schooling in our times is to teach students how to think. If this be true, how well, in your opinion, has this goal been met in your own life? Can you and do you exercise the powers of real thinking? In utilizing reasoning powers, what are the main issues of life? A prominent literary figure has said that young people should be able to answer at least three questions: Who am I? Where am I? Why am Ihere? These are basic questions. They are not easy ones. Think on them for awhile. Thinking is one of the hardest of tasks, but it will pay rich dividends in personal, Vocational, and civic experiences. There is room some place for the thinker. I3