New Castle Chrysler High School - Rosennial Yearbook (New Castle, IN)

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Y Page Seventeen To .fleniou of l942: In a few days you will be classed with the privileged minority, the high school graduates. That day will not mark the close of a period of your life, but a beginning-the commencement of real life and real responsibilities. As high school graduates you will be expected to be a little different. You will be expected to possess a little more information, to have a little better manners, to be better poised, to think a little more soundly, and to have your horizon lifted just a little higher. Your experience in high school will have built into you higher aspirations, higher ideals, deeper appreciations, and more wholesome attitudes. It will be easy to go back into the crowd and be lost in it. It will be easy to float with the cur' rent or to be driven by the wind. But you will not permit this to happen to you, for your four years of study, research, and laboratory work have taught you to think independently, to judge objectively, and to reason methodically. These are marks of dis' tinction of the high school graduate. But you have only started to grow. You have just completed the foundation for your life strucf ture. Some of you will perhaps feel that after these long years of preparation it is time for an intellec- tual holiday - that you deserve a rest. That is the danger! It will be easy to slip into careless, lazy, indifferent, easy-going thinking. Let me suggest that you continue to cultivate and practice self' discipline in thinking. Establish as a part of your' self the desire for continued study, observation and search for truth. Life then to you will be one interesting challenge after another. Determine to do something constructive each day. Make up your mind to be actively interested in your community's welfare-shoulder early responsibilities of citizen' ship. Cordially yours, J. R. MITCHELL

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Out .qujaetintendent .Ypeab I learned in the hills of Switzerland QCountyj a long time ago that the individual who was fair, square, and symf pathetic, who worked hard, and had a fair sense of humor realf ized much more out of life than any other person I had ever ohserved. Since that time, I have concluded that friendliness should he added to the important traits of my ideal man from Switzerland. You will he remembered longer hecause of your friendly smile, pleasant greeting, and cheerful attitude toward life than for any other qualifications I know. Apparently a few people are born with these traits. The great majority of use --that includes you and mefmust carefully and deliheratelyfover many months and years- '- plant and cultivate these characteristics. We must practice them for a long time if we want them to hecome a part of our general makefupfour character. For what you are to hef come you are practicing now. High school is a good place to develop within yourself some of the characteristics you admire in others. There are so many opportunities to put into practice your resolutions. Try it sometime for a week, and then repeat it for another week. You will be surprised at the results. BoARD or EDUCATION George M. Field, President joseph G. Bmwis, Secretary Karl C. Vogel, Treasiwev' Page Sixteen

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'U' 72am Wan te So varicd is thc scopc of thc curricf ulum in our school that wc travcl from thc cxactitudcs of scicntiiic rcscarch to thc tripping of thc light fantastic' - from the intricacics of thc machinc shop to thc tragedy and humor of drama. Each studcnt has an opportunity to lind a ficld for thc dcvclopmcnt of his inf tcrvsts and talents. Whctlici' it hc in cooking, drafting, music, or athletics, thc tcachcr stands cvcr rcady to guide him in his training for futurc lifc. The studcnt must lcarn to adapt him' sclf to each pcriod of thc husy school day. Hc must forget ycstcrday's day' drcams and dcvotc his full attcntion to thc idcas and information hc is rcccivf ing today. Tomorrow may hc too latc