North Andover High School - Knight Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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ALVAH GEORGE HAYES

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1938 YEAR BOOK YEAR BOOK STAFF Editor-in-Chirf Assistant Editor Sports Editors Humor Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Milton D. Howard Annette Silverstein H erbert E. Barwell Ralph Crompton, Jr. Freeman C. Hatch INDIVIDUAL WRITE-UP COMMITTEE Rose Aaronian Herbert E. Barwell Bernard S. Champion Caroline E. Chase Ralph Crompton, Jr. Edwin T. Cunningham Georgianna Curley Mary C. Dandeneau Frances V. Debrowski Russell F. Donnelly Peter Evangelos Veronica B. Fitzgerald Barbara E. Hainsworth Freeman C Hatch Milton D. Howard Eleanor G. Parker Dorothy D. Richardson Rita B Roche Myra P. Stillwell Dorothy Sutton Florence L. Vernile Elizabeth H. Walker John H. Welch BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Advertising Manager Ass’t Advertising Manager Peter Evangelos Edwin T. Cunningham Allen N. Towne

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ADDRESS TO THE SENIORS ACH year as I sit down to write a message to the seniors, I find my task becomes increasingly more difficult because of the uncertainties prevailing in our economic system. This year, you represent a small percent of roughly 1,250,000 boys and girls who will receive their high school diplomas in our forty eight states. The majority of these individuals will be¬ gin their search for work,—for jobs, which, at present, do not exist. It may be a year, it may be two, before you find your first real job. Please do not infer from this statement that I am trying to be too pessimistic. This message contains advice, but before advice can be given, the facts must be observed. In view of the present conditions, my first word of advice is for all of you to continue your education NOW if it is at all possible. There is an old adage in the stock market to the efifect that the wise man buys when all the others wish to sell. Like the wise man, you should continue your education while so many others are looking for work. Conditions will eventually improve and when they do, you will be in a preferred position for those openings for which your training has prepared you. My second bit of advice concerns those virtues which are required for any permanent success,—virtues which, unfortunately, all too many have come to look upon as old fashioned. They are (1) accuracy, (2) promptness, (3) in¬ tegrity, (4) acceptance of responsibility; and they will go out of date along with our multiplication table and our alphabet. Without strict adherence to them, it will be impossible for you to climb to any position of lasting success. In closing, may I remind you that the elevator to success has been out of order for many years, and the only means of ascent now, and in the future, will be by the way of the long and winding stairs. ALVAH G. HAYES