Naugatuck High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Naugatuck, CT)

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PROCEDENTES THE EDITORIAL Life is not meant to be cruelg nor is it cruel. It only appears so to that kind of outlook on life which views actions and incidents illiberally. How- ever unconscious such an attitude may be, human nature, at its best, delights in pessimism. Now and then even the person who has least occasion to worry finds in his disposition the tendency to consider problems with mis- giving. To regard the world as evil is to err. What ever sorrow, illness, or disaster we find on this earth is a trial of strength. We know that we mature only through stern and constant endeavor. ln this free land, one is not born to shun hardship or dire responsibility. With these it is the way of the world to expose the flaws and defects of its denizens. In this way the strength, power, and restraint of the individual are proved. If we are endued with the resolute will necessary in this competitive world, we shall not fail. An assured, well-ordered, industrious mind will sustain us throughout every vicissitude as life varies between happiness and sorrow. For life in this present day atmosphere is being beseiged by hazardous machines and people. Nations go hungry in this wordly depres- sion. An assured mind must sustain us. A liberal mind will sustain us in prosperity and assuage the humiliations that embitter adversity. Anguish of the spirit, like ills of the flesh, can not exceed the measure set by nature, and few are the actual ills that even approach that measure. Thus, the mind vested on this earth in the imperturbable calm of its pristine abode, may look forth in peace upon the troublous periphery of flesh. That soul is not worthy of its nature, nor does that heart deserve fulfilment that can not abide without discomforture and persevere un- blenching. Had Aeneas in those years of numerous temptations and har- bourless seas weakened in travail, should he ever have founded Rome? -that imperishable abode of the human spirit even now after untold cen- turies of unimaginable desolation. The soul of Aeneas was firm. With a similar rigid attitude, you and I peer into the future. Worry that may approach us will best be over-powered by the application of these same principles. In the years of study guided by a liberal education, a solid foundation has been established in our youth. A foundation upon which honor is built high above petty anguish. If during sickness in the on-coming years, recovery of health seems far distant, remember, this is a trial of strength! If desperation over- comes us for want of employment, firmness is necessary. If there be others, weaklings with an irresolute will, they will proclaim, What happens is meant to happen. A fatalism not to be cultivated, the theory of a sophist. Things do not merely happen, they are caused. The drowsy and the lazy abide by this motto merely to avoid excess travail. The malicious advocate this theory so to inveigle the simple. ' Hardship is known to us all. Suffering has been endured. With an assured knowledge of righteousness and a lofty background in education, we have been educated so as to persevere unblenching toward our wordly objective, sustained by our spiritual life, without which we should founder. M. ALDINE ENGELHARDT Page Tlvenfy Three

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PROCEDENTES E rl MQ! AVWV Q JOHN M- SUTHERLAND- Jr- FLORENCE SWEENEY RODNEY VARDON V 5UlUfGl0fiUf1 Chairman of Clubs Assistant Editor Assistant Editor M. ALDINE ENGELHARDT Valcdictorian Editor-in-Chief LEROY NOYES MARY PENROSE ALBERT KARALIS Sports Editor Staff Artist Sports Editor Page Twenty Two

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PROCEDENTES LEONARD MARCHLEWSKI RUTH FITZPATRICK EDWARD NGBLE Chairman of Adveriising Essayigl ViCe.Pfe5iC1e,,l Staff Arlisl EDWARD GERBER, jr. President Adverlising Commillee BETTY BRENNAN TRACY BREEN REGINA KELLY Most Popular Cirl Photographs Social Editor Advertising Commiilee Page Twenty Four