Oceanside High School - Spindrift Yearbook (Oceanside, NY)

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STOCKHOLDERS The preparation of any product for delivery to the consumer requires the services of an untold number of individuals, whether it be tin cans, soap, rides on a bus, electric power, or good will, understanding, initiative, or devotion to duty. When a consumer pays for what he receives, he is in effect, paying an army of servants who are unseen and unknown. Parents and teachers and administrators and boards of education and taxpayers all recognize the crying need in this world for our product. They have faith in our ability to produce, and our ability to produce depends upon their faith. They realize that the preparation of our product requires the co-operation of thousands of individuals. In every conceivable way, efforts are continuously being lent toward the improvement of our product before it leaves our Plant. At times, inferior material is presented to our manufacturers with instructions todowhat is possible to make it into a product with sufficient qualities to send forth into the world. Unfortunately, some of this inferior material does not stand up once it is in the world. It is discarded along the way because of some weak trait that has pulled it down into the everlasting depths of failure. The raw material and the Plant’s objectives did not blend well enough to enable the finished product to endure the situations on hand. Mingled among the various types of raw material will also be found the extreme opposite. Before going through any of the processes, this material already shines with definite promising gleams, l ittle has to be done to this type in order to have it emerge as a smooth and well-done, finished product. Let us doff our hats to our parents, to the voters, to the taxpayers. They know that the process is slow and that our supply never quite meets the demand. 10