Owosso High School - Spic Yearbook (Owosso, MI)

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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

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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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Many of you will be surprised to find that places of trust and honor are not awaiting you, and will be given you only after you have been tested and found equal to tasks assigned. You will have to compete with others who have received their training in the school of practical problems, and those who prove equal to the unexpected, be they graduates or non-graduates, will move to the front. However, experience has shown that in the various callings re- quiring thought, care and judgment, the high school graduate has had a decided advantage. More opportunities will be extended to you than to the unschooled for you have demonstrated your ability to pursue to a successful end a prescribed amount of work requiring four years. The mental training which you have had should prove a valuable tool for meeting the new and un- foreseen demands of life. You have had advantages and reached a standard which is met by less than two percent of the young people of this country. Do not however consider that your education is more than begun. You have but a part of the foundation upon which you must build your life struct- ure. Education is very much a give and take process, and you should count that day lost in which you have not learned something of value. All those with whom you come in contact may be numbered among your teachers. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to meet a person whose ex- perience and knowledge is not broader than your own in some line or other. Lend an attentive ear when others relate their experiences and carefully select and make your own such lessons as will make your lives more complete. This is an age of rapid changes, and the person who can look ahead and anticipate conditions and provide for them becomes a directing force and receives recognition. In my judgment this ability to foresee and prepare for the demands of the future counts more in the scale of success than anything else. This means that you must have minds willing and ready to receive and consider new ideas. People of fixed ideas rest content in the notion that they have the best possible solution for the various problems and lose many valu- able lessons in efficiency. In this practical and material age we have become accustomed to look for and expect marks of progress each year. Infact the best brains connected with every business or industry are used in experiment- ing and in improving processes and methods. So it behooves you to think ahead and choose for yourselves professions with a large future and then strive to become leaders in your professions. But make yourselves larger than your professions, for as citizens you have private and public services to perform. Have high ideals toward which you are constantly working. Elevating ideals are necessary to bring out the best there is in us, and success worthy of mention cannot be obtained short of our best efforts. Adapt yourselves to your environment so that as opportunities present themselves you may be in a position to make the most of them. In whatever vocation you choose you will be required to work with and for other people, and you will find that team work counts for just as much as it does in athletics. Make your life one of helpfulness and service to others, for in bringing others to a better realization of what a well rounded life is you have directly added to your own pleasures and you have also helped in a definite way to 1' if 'r rv N1