Riverside Brookfield High School - Rouser Yearbook (Riverside, IL)

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The Road May Be Long and Hard- The cultivation of a flexible and adaptable mind is in this day and age essential to success. Changes of Fortune bring changes in conditions which, if they are not to produce discouragement and stagnation, must be offset by some new vision, coupled with the willingness to go on under difiiculties. There are many, who when they find the accustomed avenues blocked or difficult to traverse, resign themselves to what they call a tough break and shruggingly admit that itls not worth while to push on if one can no longer take the usual smooth and pleasant road. The goal to be achieved means nothing to such persons. They are like the little boy who won't play if he cannot have his own way. But that is just where he who is possessed of that valuable asset, flexibility and adaptability of mind, scores to win. It is he who turns failure into success and makes a stepping-stone to greater heights of every obstacle up the Hill-of-Difficulty. For such as he there is no time for whining or self pity, sulking or lamentation. Young people everywhere this year have had first lessons in a highly stimulating liberal arts course in social science, minimum essentials of which involve making one dollar serve for two. Whether they make a passing grade or not depends on their record in the classrooms of Adversity. Adverse circumstances might have brought about the suspension of the Annual for this year had the members of the Class of ,32 been without the ability to adapt them- selves to the necessity of making the best of a bad situation. If hard-times teaches nothing more than the value of cultivating an open mind, and trimming one's course to meet the winds of ill-fortune, it will have provided a wholesome educationg and while it may not be so welcome as a long lost brother is nevertheless worthy of respectful attention. -GRACE C. TYLER Fozrrfmu

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MR. GEORGE A. HUGHES MRS. E. M. COLLIS MR. JOHN D. CLANCY Pl'f'SiIIt'llf MRS. C. T. WATSON MR. Enw. M. TRONE

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To the Class of 1932-Greetings Today you graduate from R-B. It is the day for which you have long hoped. Con- gratulations will be showered upon you by friends. They are well deserved. I join with them. May joy be with you today. Tomorrow you will meet a great change. You will meet uncertainties. You will feel depressed that the world does not take you to itself and make a place for you. But never fear-the world needs you. It reaches out its hand to welcome every boy and girl who approaches it with wisdom and courage. It is waiting today to learn what you have to offer. May you go to whatever you have chosen with joy, with courage, with enthusiasm. Let me rejoice with you and bid you Godspeed through those fruitful years which are yours to enjoy. -Rhue E. Green Looking Forward To-day brings its own duties, pleasures and interests, but always there is to-morrow with its budget of requirements and fulfillments. The past is scanned for the aid it gives in planning to meet the future. School administrators are constantly seeking to provide that which will be of most value to the students. All thoughts are directed to the end of the years devoted to study, and all inquiry is centered upon the extent to which an education enables the graduate to live well, to enjoy richly and to do successfully. Are the students asking themselves how to derive the greatest profit from the opportunities before them? -Eula Brown Ififteen