Roosevelt High School - Wy Hi Yearbook (Wyandotte, MI)

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We Work, We Play, We Plan If all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, all play and no work should make Jack a particularly sharp youth. Such does not hold true, however. For success, there must be a proper mixture of the ingredients of work and play and then heated with the fires of planning. Youth feels lost in a quagmire of uncertainty, yes, even of despondency, yet never has there been such an opportunity for making this world a haven for harmonious and happy living. To many a teenager the future appears to be one of hopeless warfare and mental strife without hopes for escape. That attitude is defeatest and cannot produce a future to look forward to with any degree of desire. Hope for the future lies in avoidance of the mistakes of the past. The highway of future progress must be built by the youth of today. To serve the best purpose, the highway must lead through the hamlets of responsibility, efficiency, integrity, dependability, courtesy, economy, and goodcitizenship if it is to connect the great terminals of freedom, peace, prosperity, and happiness. American youths of past generations have also been faced with seemingly insur- mountable problems. Present greatness of this nation was not gained through a defeatest attitude, but with a rolling up of the sleeves and attacking the problems at hand. This is no time to look at the future through dark colored glasses, for the America- yes, the world - of the future is on the drafting board of youth. Never has opportunity been spelled with larger letters. Science, medicine, music, art, literature, law, engineering, transportation, communication, government and the humanities offer fertile and extensive fields for cultivation by those with ambition, courage, skill and determination. In the face of such opportunity there are false prophets who hold out the false panacea of security - a security without planning on the part of the individual and without too much work. There is no such thing as true security. No mortal mind is great enough to vision the future. Youth of today is admonished not to exchange freedom, independence and opportunity for the gold brick so glowingly but dishonestly described as security. The best security and the only honest kind comes when youth grasps the opportunities offered and cultivates the fertile fields with the implements that have brought greatness to this nation. It comes when youth fights for its rights, yet does not shun its responsibilities. Work, Play, Plan. This triumvirate spells the future greatness of America and of the world. James E. Ostrum

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We Work We Play, We Plan

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1 Harold Stoner, Miss Betty Murray, Thomas Allman, Miss Mildred Mielke, secretary, Charles Thomas, president, Supt. M. F. Egdorf, Harold Jacobson, Henry Belaski and Joseph Marr. Thanks To The School Board We of the Senior Class wish to express our appreciation to the School Board for the many things they have done for us during our four years in Roosevelt High. We have found them to be willing listeners to our problems and suggestions. They have done every thing under their power to make our school a better one. We thank you heartily. I