Ogden High School - Classicum Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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w. KARL HOPKINS - Superintendent 1

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EDUCATION AND SUCCESS l HERE never was a time in the history of the world when it was so true as it is now that Knowledge is Power. No matter what a person's work, he can do it better if he is well informed. As a lawyer, a doc- tor, a teacher or a stenographer, his success will rest as much upon his all arounclnessn as it will upon his technical finish. To know something about everything as well as everything about something should be the aim of every high school pupil. Education means intellectual background. It means accumulated power and force in any- thing and everything zi person undertakes. It strengthens his influence. It makes of him a Hu- man Being, alive, vibrant, radiating. Many a man has risen in the business world or in the political world only to be humiliated because in youth he has neglected to acquire that education which alone would qualify him to mingle on terms of equality with well-informed people. No living person has ever been sorry that he secured a high school or a college education. It may not be possible for every graduate from the Ogden High School to obtain a College degree, but the only things that will prevent him from acquiring useful knowledge, or an edu- cation, are laziness, self-indulgence, weakness, and procrastination. Remember -that the best part of your education can be earned from hard study during the Hrst ten years after leaving high school or college. D0n't graduate-and quit. SUPT. W. KARL HOPKINS 12' 1 K I

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TO THE GRADUATES Dear Seniors: In these closing days of our high school career, I would ask you always to remenmber tht we are all, essentially and fundamentally idealists. Our souls are forever reaching out for the better things of life. Always beyond us is something that we rightly crave. We hunger for truth, for beauty, for righteousness, for the better things beyond. And we do this, too, I think, without any particular credit to ourselves. VVe do it not so much because of our intellects nor our will, but because of our souls' needs. Emerson- said that when God wishes to carry an argument with mankind, He plants the seed in the instincts. Instiuctively we are ever reaching out for our ideals. That we seem never to attain them sometimes distrubs us, sometimes our souls are teased by such lines as these: Brother Tree: Why do you reach and reach? do you dream some day to touch the sky? Brother Stream: Why do you run and run? do you dream some day to fill the sea? Brother Bird: Why do you sing and sing? do you dream ...... Young Man: Why do you talk and talk and talk? But after all this discontent is natural and necessary, unless a man's reach is beyond his grasp, what is a heaven for? We should be much less satisfied if we could at once reach the things for which we are longing, arrive at the destination at which we are aiming. The1'e is, we believe, a divine discontent, divine, because God wills it. So, students, if your high school training has increased your divine discontent, if it has help- ed you to feel more strongly that there is something beyond you, something to strive for, some worthwhile accomplishments yet to achieve, it has not been in vain: you have arrived at com- mencement. But I would warn you and advise you that in all your hunger, all your striving, all your long- ing, not to permit yourselves at any time to become discouraged, pessimistic, sordid. Maintain always the joy, the hope, the faith, the optimism that you now have. Let not age blight these, nor hardships wither them. Maintain, a all cost, the courage and enthusiasms of youth. Sincerely, Principal A. M. Maluum, 1141