Puyallup High School - Viking Yearbook (Puyallup, WA)

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Sai Evelyn Haines Mr. Hansen Mi. llanauialtk Messaue A MESSAGE TO SENIORS AND TO THE STUDENT BODY: Everyone wants to succeed. The present generation has failed because of its wrong con- ception of success. lt is one's attitude that largely determines one's success or failure, not merely one's knowledge. lt is not only necessary to know what is best to do, but also it is just as important, and more, to want to do it, and eventually to do it. Our generation has fostered selfishness in each person. This selfishness has brought our present problem. We now see the fallacy resulting. Individual welfare and the welfare of society are really one. The two cannot be separated for successful results. Each person must be responsible to society. Society must uphold each person. We want a nation of socially responsible individuals. . lt is our hope that you will not only see the right way of living, but also that you will want to follow it, and eventually you will actually follow it. Mr. llansen's Messaqe TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR CLASS: Commencement time brings its pleasures, but it also brings its heartaches, lt isn't an easy matter to break away from the happy associations formed over a period of years. To me the graduating of a class is a personal loss. There are compensations, however. To have you come back and greet us from time to time, to hear of your ambitions and successes and to know that perhaps we played a part in that success, is our bonus. We hope that the instruction you have received while with us has given you a firm foundation for the tasks to come. Commencement is but the beginning. This will be worth remembering in the days to follow: Continue your education, learn to do your own thinking, do your best in every job, be cheerful and have faith. Best wishes to you all. hvclve

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School Boaid's Messaqe ln extending congratulations to you, the graduating class of l936, the Board of Directors, speaks for the whole community in wishing you success. Yours is the largest class ever to be graduated from the Puyallup l-ligh School, May your achievements be the greatest. Never has there been a greater need for service in world affairs by young people trained and dedicated for that service. May you have the faith to believe that things can be made better and the courage to do those things necessary to make them better. The people of this Community have shown taith and courage through many trying years in loyally supporting your school and giving you the tools with which you might work. We believe your greatest satisfaction will come from giving back to your community and to the world the best loyalty and service within the power of each of you to give. As a final statement we wish to leave this thought with you. lt is our hope that the members of this class will adopt the philosophy of the modern school-that the main objective of education is successful living. The following quotation from the book Successful Living ad- equately expresses this thought: UA great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which he attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a workva work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. lt is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic. mf M Mr. Forbes. Nlr. Jones. Supt, Hanawalt. Dr. Aylen llzirfiwri