Morris High School - Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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GERTRUDE WYNKOOP GECRGE T. MQQUILLAND THOMAS BATES LUELLA G. SMITH CAROLINE D. HALL HELEN M. STORY JULIUS STRAUSS HELEN A. EINN

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THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Nature, in her everfwinding, neverfending cycle, once again rolls around and brings back her birds and flowers. Morris, in her ceaseless educational process, once again produces a graduating class. Precedent, in its uninterrupted course, again decrees that the Senior President write an address. Past messages have dealt with what we have taken away with us from Morris. This message purports to deal with what we can give to her. Every graduating class has within its number the greatest proportionate potentiality, probably, that may be found anywhere in the world. The thought suggested is too apparent to need any useless explanation. This -class has within it the makings of all that goes to make good and true men and women, as well as cofoperative and successful citizens. It is for us to realize these potentialities. V One hears the saying: The gift is twice blessed, it blesses him who gives and him who receives. The same applies now. When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction that one can get in life is that of a deed well doneffor others. Thus the double blessing. Likewise do we give double blessing in doing something which will make Morris proud to say That is a Graduate of mine. Education is more than a process of mere bookflearning. The modern world is daily becoming a more concerted group of community workers. And this is but rightfit is daily becoming a group of people with common interests. Consequently, it is our duty, as members of a progressive gen' eration, to keep apace with this movement. Let our motto be Broad mindednessf' The world is bigger than you or I, bigger than any group feeling. If advance is to be made, it is to be made by maintaining an open mind. If we are to amount to anything, it will only be by persistent applif cation, by maintaining high ideals, by broadfmindedness, by achievement to capacity and by service to ourselves through service to others, in short, by being fair with ourselves. ' It would not be amiss to inject at this point a few words of grateful appreciation to the greatest moulders of character and the greatest forces for good that have ever existed--our teachers and parents. lt is not nec' essary to repeat what has oft been said before: 'LWe are both grateful and and thankful, we are ready to give and do our best. But the way we 'intend to give our thanks is by doing the deeds confronting us with the joy of doing the work and we intend to do our best by meeting each new situation with an open and flexible mind. CARL E. SCHIFFER. Sixteen