Northern High School - Viking Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Mr. Tanis, Principal To the Graduates of the Class of June, 1939: Since you first entered Northern High School three years ago, it has been our constant endeavor to treat you as individuals and as human beings. Although some of you may have had identical programs while here, it was merely a coincidence, as we have tried to arrange your work so that each one was given those studies best fitted to your needs. The possibility of your association with members of the faculty, which has been reduced from 120 teachers to 80 teachers,has been greatly re- stricted. Although we cannot fully compensate for this loss, we have given you a special consultation period each day, so that any of you could have become better acquainted with any of your teachers. We hope that when you go out into the world you will continue to develop as individuals and not as members of a group. The enjoyable daily contacts here with your fellow students, representing about thirty different nationalities, must have developed in you a spirit of tolerance. You have worked amicably together here during the last three years, I hope that you maintain the same friendly relations with your fellows during the rest of your lives. Each of you has equal opportunity to de- velop to the limit of your ability. The future of this country depends upon the ability, the industry, the loyalty, and the cooperation of its citizens. We look to your generation to supply this need. Sincerely yours, J. E. Tanis. . 49147 8

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In a contest neither the participants nor the spectators are satis- fied With a forfeit. The spirit of DOING the right thing is uppermost in the minds of playersg the desire to SEE the right thing DONE oc- cupies the minds of the onlookers. To the onlooking world Detroit symbolizes the will to do and to do fairly. But by Detroit one does not understand merely a geograph- ical subdivision, -rather he thinks of the people therein. The con- clusion for each of us is plain: if Detroit is to be progressively dynamic, the doer must not only have the will to do, but must also will to do in fairness to his fellow beings. For we can ALL be happy life-actors only if EACH has the urge to be individually helpful. A happy community results solely from the happiness of all the individuals, for all the individuals, by all the individuals. Your part in this plan is self-evident: do not fear to follow it, but follow it in all its three phases. A. L. McGrath. C1.L.m54..o1fi. Mr. McGrath. Assistant- Principal 9