Pullman Technical High School - Annual Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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A MESSAGE TO THE GRADUATES A school, no matter how good, cannot GIVE its students information, skill, or wisdom. It can give only opportunity and aid. The students must do the work. While you have been at Pullman Tech., we have tried to help you acquire these and other desirable attainments like good habits, self-reliance, proper attitudes, and worthwhile interests. Each of you has benefited in proportion to your natural abilities plus your efforts. You are going out into a cold, hard world where you will be in competition with a million others like yourselves. To secure the good things of life you will have to be ambitious, industrious and smart. It has always been that way. For thousands of years young people have gone out into the world, courageous, ambitious, independent, asking no odds or favors from any one. They have carved their careers as best they could. Some have become great and have contributed greatly to the advancement of civilization and human happiness, but most of them have served in humble capacities, doing the best they could. My advice to high school graduates is to tackle their problems in the same independent and self- reliant way their predecessors have done. Do not expect someone else to shoulder your burdens and made life easy for you. Do not depend on Government or Society or any of their alphabetical agencies. Paddle your own canoe and paddle hard. livery successful man in America became successful this way. URBAN G. WTILLIS, Principal. BE AN INTEGER An integer is a whole, a unit, not a fraction. Your development thus far has been fairly sym- metrical, well balanced. Your highest aim should be to keep it so. The Y. M. C. A. employs the triangle, a stable figure, as its emblem, the sides being designated Body, Mind, S iritw. These three facets of your many -sided bein re uire rindin and constant . P . . S fl 5 E olishin to brin out their beauty and value. If you ne lect one, the refraction of your life is P g g . . S . imperfect, your influence is diminished. lt follows naturally that we should speak of one's integrity. Having the same root and basic meaning as integer, integrity has become associated more closely in our minds with tl1e spiritual and moral attributes of a person. Surely this facet needs polishing in these days of political chican- ery, official turpitude, and national faithlessness. Your worth to your employer will be measured in no less degree by your integrity, your dependability, your plain homespun honesty than by your manual skill or technical ability. To acquire and augment all these desirable characteristics of a well-rounded integrated person- ality will keep you very busy during the next halfcentury. Roll up your sleeves, get out the jeweler's rouge and chamoisl You are not graduating, you have arrived at your Commencement. WlLLI,ANl C. BRUBAKER. Page 9

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MR. HRUISAKICR, through his influence anal kinclly interest, has won the high esteem ol' the entire student body. llis guitlanvt- has ht-lpetl us to strive toward our suvvess and well-he-ing. ,lEANr:'rTE Di-3 Vines. Page S MR. WILLIS has tried so to prepare us that we may be successful in the tasks which now confront us. Wtv, the class ol' l94O, express our heartfelt appreciation for the tireless el'- forts he has put forth in aiding us to attain this goal. ,lui-xNie'i i'ic Dr: Vines.

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Page I0 The scholastic phase of school is the most important of the three cornered plan of modern education, lll as-much as the athletic and social aspects are merely a means ol' physical and character building. and ol' providing interest and diversion to the Curriculum. To be an efiicicnt pupil is a fairly' good estimate that one's latcr life will be as successful as his earlier. ll' a student would only' realize at the beginning ol' his schooling. how essential a sound education is and how much it can alter the course of his life, he would surely strive all the harder to reap as many' benefits from his opportunity as possible. ln present times when education is the by -word of all employment offices. the ambitious lad, who has garnered every single oat from his field of scholastieism, is well re- warded for the trouble he has gone to. On the other hand, the person who merely tagged along will probably find the road of life to be a vcry' bumpy' path. Editor.