Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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THE BGHO VoL, I SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1910 No. 9 CLASS OF JUNE, 1910 This graduation, vour first public ap- pearance, is being watched with exceeding interest because you re present the type of men and women for which there is public peed, and because you are likely to be among the leaders of the next generation. You have shown by the seriousness with which you have performed your daily work that the training which you have received is one of great value. Your High School course has given you power to do things, and power to enjoy things. The courses in physics, chemistry, and mathematics have enabled you to know tne laws of natural forces, and therefore vecome able to control those forces and make them serve definite ends. In history and economics you have gained at least a certain power of prevision which will keep you from spending your efforts in useless and harmful directions. While in the courses in literature, music, and art you have opened up before you honorable and yermanent sources of happiness. Power to do things and power to enjoy things are then the rewards which you have obtained from your High School course. s you go from this school look for the yest that is around you and the best will rise up always to reward you. Let your faith in the triumph of right be as firm and as resolute as the courage and steadfastness of the Ancient Mariner, who, while battling with the angry seas, cried out from the stern of his vessel, “O God, Thou canst save me if Thou wilt, and if Thou wilt Thou canst destroy me: but whether or no, I will hold my rudder fast.” Charles IL, Searcy.

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JOHN RUED THE ECHO. EDNA RUTH CRANE SCOTT E. WEBB

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THE ECHO. TO THE CLASS OF JUNE, ’10 3y Miss O'Meara My Girls and Mv Boys :— Tomorrow has come! You all are gone! And | sit in the old schoolroom, looking at the rows of vacant chairs. Happy children! You are free! You went laugh- ing out the south door, whistling out the north door. What will you do with your freedom? I wonder. And there are others that wonder. You gone, | still sit looking at the empty chairs. JT wonder what I have taught you. Books? Perhaps. To read, to write, to speak gcod English? I have tried to teach vou these things. But neither you nor I know what [ have taught you, what you have learned. Only as you live, shall vou and I be able to tell that. There is only one thing in all this world that is worth learning. Some of you, perhaps, will re- member that John Grey, the schoolmaster, long ago on that day he bade a last good- bye to his little school in far-away Ken- tucky, told those he had taught and loved what that one thing is. “This is the last and the best thing I have to say to you. It sounds very plain and common, but I have nothing better to tell you because there is nothing better to tel! Thot is ” Be Good what I have tried to teach you. You have talked much, you have written much in my ciass-room, but that training will be of volue to you only so far as it will cause you to have the courage to cham- pion all that is right and to attack all that is wrong, wherever and whenever you may eee either. You have read much in my class-room but that reading has been of value only so far as it wil! cause vou to read what is worth reading, hereafter. But mere reading of what is good is of no value if nothing more than absorption results. Reading should suggest thoughts—thoughts should produce acts. It is action that counts in life. “By their deeds, ye shall know them.” There is nothing more useless to this world than the individual that is inactive through lack of effort. There is nothing more valuable io this world than the active man of the right sort. And remember that this world is, after all, a good world and a happy world. We hear much in these days of “the wickedness of this sintul world.” But do not think about the wicked things-—keep your thoughts on the good things, for those are the things to keep in mind; then there will de no room for the others. Do all you can io lift things upward, then there will be ro need to trample anything underfoot. Keep looking up toward the sun and the stars. [It is the bright sunlight that keeps the world alive and beautiful and happy. It is such a good thing to be happy, to carry a lieht heart and help the world to smile— even through its tears. To be happy; that means to be honest, to be kind, to be brave; that means getting and giving all that lite has worth getting and giving. We get out of life just what we put into it. 2) Have I taught you these things? Have [I helped you to put in the best that you may get out the best? Have I taught you hat you should get out the best not just for you—for yourself, but for others? When you went out the school-room doors into the wide world standing with open arms to greet you, the old school still stood vehind you. It will always stand behind you. You have passed beyond its portals— vou are graduates. But vou are still mem- vers of it as alumni. Do not forget that. Do not forget that it is the alunmni that h inust maintain the standard of a school. Be oval alumni. And year by year, as the alumni gather to add new classes to old ones, come to meet the old ones and to ereet the new ones. Be active in fostering a lovalty to such an association and strive to create for it a value such that those who come to tread the steps that you have trod,