Owosso High School - Spic Yearbook (Owosso, MI)

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sl? st Miss MARY H. EMBREE Instructor in Music Ask we do more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past, For in your sweet dividing throat, She winters and keeps warm her note. Miss MA UD M ORRI CE Instructor in Drawing For she has skill to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice or add another hue Unto the rainbow ! Mr.iLEON J. CARR Instructor in Manual Training An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. Miss BLANCHE M. DU VALL Instructor in Penmanship That one is blest, Who does her best, And leaves the rest, Then does not worry. I I YU Miss FLORENCE M. HA YES Instructor in Domestic Science We may live without poetry, music and artg We may live without conscience and live without heart g We may live without friends, we may live without books 3 But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

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if A 1 -4 -'sfx704x's f '51 5 You will enter into the fields of literary professional business and 'KYQJF industrial activities You are going to be thrust more upon your own resources, and the success with which you shoulder your new duties will depend in large part upon the way in which you have trained yourselves to shoulder home and school responsibilities. The boy or girl who has acquired the habit of attending promptly to the calls of duty, and who has the staying qualities to work consistently at the task in hand until he or she completes it, has the promise of a successful career. In comparing the records of people who have gone out of school into the various walks of life, we find a surprising similarity in the degree of success which they gained in their school work and attained in the calling of their choice. And yet, this is not so strange, for the student who is not satisfied with grades which represent anything short of his very best effort will like- wise get the best literary, professional or business training possible. The student who counts on just passing his school work will be satisfied with mediocre results in whatever he makes his life work. The success of your efforts will depend upon the quantity and quality of the work which you can accomplish. Upon these two factors hang all the laws of efficiency. Mere quantity is the measure of success for men who do ordin- ary day labor. Even the best of us have a considerable amount of pure hack- work to dog but as we go up the scale of human activity, quality counts more and more. Men have in a few days developed ideas, formulated plans, written poems that were worth more to mankind than a life time of work whose value was estimated in terms of quantity. Capabilities of a peculiar character seem to exist in almost every one of us, and I believe that man's value to society de- pends upon his discovering and developing his special talent. In some cases warning might be necessary lest in your eagerness for success you might attempt and undertake too much. Judge of your own ability and powers of endurance, then select your work and adjust your pace accord- ingly. In times of emergency one may work intensely for many hours in the day, but in doing the work of a year or a lifetime one has to set a pace which he can keep up, that is, he must determine his point of maximum efficiency. Vcwf OU SENIORS must soon respond to the call of new and varied duties. , A -,G .... . . , . I I if lime 'I' xx'4- my I