Owosso High School - Spic Yearbook (Owosso, MI)

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make our Republic what it should be. Our form of government depends upon the intelligence and good judgment of the average citizen. Keep in mind that scholarship is not an end, it is a means to an end. The end is life-ability to do and to enjoy. The question asked at the present time is not, how much do you know, but what can you do. Information without ability to apply and use is of little value. lt would give me great pleasure to see every member of this senior class make good, and your success will help to win greater recognition and respect at home and away from home for your Alma Mater. Sincerely, M. G. JONES, Prin. Wikia -- A --77 ., '- 'xg' CM-4.5! ',iH4'QfIi7'- . .Q-gislgi-154, 1g..g:Q3' .f:'Ll!fG' ti? it r i 1 1

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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

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