Ninth Avenue School - Tiger Yearbook (Hendersonville, NC)

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Principal’s Message On every hand men and women are quick to say that they long for success. We are ever sincere in wishing our friend success. We struggle and strive for success. You who are religious --pray for it, and you who are unreligious --woo it and entreat it with a devotion that transcends the fervency of prayer. The teachers instruct you, the editors urge you, you are told that no matter how fierce the battle, no matter what obstacles confront you, no matter how many suitors throng the gates, you can, through courage and presistance, fortitude and thrift, attain the coveted goal. The great passion of the human mind is to succeed, to get on in the world to win the things worthwhile, and to write one ' s name imperishably upon the bronze tablet of history. It is a laudable ambition, but for its accomplishment are re¬ quired certain qualities of mind and heart, with out which the best efforts will leave no more impression upon the world than a pebble cast into the sea or words written upon the sand. If we would really be concerned about success we must not think of self but rather of service. The pursuit of material success solves nothing in the world worth solving. It is a cult which deceives and demoralizes and ruins, which blinds men to their actual situation in life and which evades or ignores the real solution of proverty. Instead of fostering brotherhood and co¬ operation, the natural tendency of social man, it ferments stife. It dooms the multitude to stumble about in privation and ignorance, led by a false light. By joining hands for a common purpose you might achieve a material success in which all would share-one which would be the enduring of a higher success, a success of the social instincts and feelings, a success of moral and intellectual endeavor. By striving for individual gain, you but wreck your own and other ' s opportunities. In the stife for worldly success you waste energies that would enrich the world. You rob yourself and all men. This form of success is not Victory; it is too often defeat and impoverishment. It is the sacrifice of what is best in man for an empty prize. It means the hardening of the social feelings, the extingushment of the spirit of brotherhood, the clouding and darkening of the social vision by which a people live and become great. He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration, whose memory is a benediction. J. R. Wright, Principal 10

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Library Give me the room whose a book. nook is dedicated to 4

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SENIORS The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on . . .