Randolph High School - Vergisz Mein Nicht Yearbook (Randolph, OH)

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT who shows high above his fellow man must climb indeed high and be able to hold his position per- chance for years to draw the atten- tion of the world to himselfj This higher plane to which our system tends to raise all we think we may claim as fruits of our past labors in the field of education, and we should honor and reverence those of the past who gave us the common free school, where all, whatever their home surroundings may be, pass twelve years of their life and learn the principle of true democracy, that we are all equal, before the law of the Ohio peda- gogue and national government. And this knowledge, which is the corner-stone of our republic, fitting us to become citizens of the same, We may safely claim as another fruit of our labors we think the greatest of all, for out of it we see the acknowledgment of the princi- ple of the brotherhood of man which the Great Teacher taught during his ministry on earth. E. C. McKINNEY. Sf I if HAVING AN AIM IN LIFE By G. W. Brumbaugh There comes to every young per- son at some time or another a heart's desire to make a success in life. This desire in young people comes usually about the time they are entering manhood or woman- hood. It is a most worthy desire, and one that should be carefully fostered by parents and teachers. Every young person should have some definite aim in life, to make PROF. G. YV. BRUMBAUGH himself the most useful and most successful citizen that it is possible for him to be in the community in which he is to live. We hear much these days in edu- cational circles about vocational guidanceg especially is this applica- ble to the young people in our high schools and colleges. Vocational directors have been appointed in some of our cities whose sole duty is to confer with pupils and to ad- vise and help them to decide upon their life work. Wise guidance from those who are interested in their future welfare is invaluable to young people, and they should learn to appreciate the efforts of teachers and parents along this line. The writer of this article, as a pupil in the rural schools of Ran- dolph Township, early had an am- bition to become a teacher of boys and girls. With the encouragement , ,, ,4r.-an, , , ,,

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT that he received at home from his father and mother, this ambition was fostered and he set out to pre- pare himself for the work. He at- tended the first High School estab- lished in Randolph Township in the fall of 1881, and in the following April he began his work as a teacher, being yet a boy in his early teens. He further pursued profes- sional studies in a college. Later he became a High School teacher and Superintendent in his native township, and it is with no small degree of satisfaction that he has noted the growth and development of this High School to one of the best rural High Schools in the state. He is now completing his thirty-second year in the profession of teaching, twenty years of which have been spent with the boys and girls in the city of Dayton. The teacher's reward is not real- ized in dollars and cents, but in the satisfaction to some extent of be- lieving that he has helped some young lives by precept and example to a worthier and higher ambition to make a success in life. We wish to commend to the careful consid- eration of the young people now in Randolph Township High School the vocation of teaching. We be- lieve it is a God-given work, second only to the holy ministry of the Gospel. There is a tendency among too many of the boys in the country to leave the farm for what they think are the greater advantages and in- ducements offered by the city for success in life. With the rapid progress noted in recent years in rural education, especially in the teaching of agriculture in the schools, let us hope that more of the young men will choose farming as a life work. With the teaching of domestic science and domestic art to the girls in most of the best schools, there has come about a great change in the minds of our girls, and they are learning to ap- preciate that the' most successful life in the future for them may be realized as home-makers. Some of our young people do not fully appreciate the advantages that they have over those of their fathers and mothers, to prepare for life's work. Our advice to you is, to set up some aim, select some goal toward which you should strive to attain, and do your best to reach your ideal. Above all, learn to know that true Christian character is essential to the highest and tru- est success in any vocation in life. Many of the former students of Randolph Township High School are among the most successful business and professional men now in the city of Dayton and else- where, while many others are your fathers and mothers, who consti- tute the most successful and most sturdy people in the township at this time. Make every eEort to improve your time in school to the best ad- vantage, have a worthy aim in life, and the future will tell of the suc- cess you have attained. Dayton, O., April 1, 1916.