Sault Ste Marie High School - Northern Light Yearbook (Sault Ste Marie, MI)

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THE KEYNOTE 1939 The Senior' Edition of the Keynote, bi-weekly publication of Sault Ste. Marie High School, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, is published zmnually in magazine form. EDITORIAL STAFF Cofliditors , , Avice Rye, LeRoy Kolin Associate Editor . ,. , .. . , . .. . . , ..., . Muriel Gullis Sports , George Hanna, Bob Reilly, Stanley Moloney Writers Bob NValker, Kathleen McCormick, Ennis Steffens, Gwen Wise, JoAnn Skouroukos, 'Dorothy Keeffe, June Perkins. Betty Planck, Jack Dean, Doris Peterson. Georgette XVellner. .lack Hunt, Virginia Barclay, .lim Sylvester. Photographer. , .. . . ,. , .. , ,. . Leonard Sheldrake Artists . ., , Shirley Atkins. Roger Herrington BUSINESS STAFF Manager , ,,., . . Victor Harrison Advertising Solicitors Irene Burtt, Gecile Menard, Pota Poulakos, John Traige. Francis Sayer, Arthur Laucks. ADVISERS Editorial . . .. . .. ,.., . . . .. ,. Kathryn Falls Business .. Gerald T. Butler C, The World of Tomorrow: A Challenge On June I4 approximately one hundred fifty of us will receive otir diplomas. a recognition of four years in high school, To some of us this achievement is a stepping stone towards a goal, to others it represents four years of pleasant association and good times: to still others it stands for a period of wasted time. All of us, however, are looking forward to the same thing, the world of tomorrow. What will it be? A small percentage of the class has worked in these four years toward further education. These few contem- plate more advanced study in colleges, training schools, and universities: and so their problem of tomorrow's world may be postponed for awhile. A number of us cannot pursue education beyond high school, yet we have a genuine determination to get ahead and to succeed in life. This group, in future years, will derive as much as possible from their work: they will give service. It is they who will be leaders in their community, who will bend every effort toward making a better society, socially and economically. Many of us will leave school with one idea, to get a job, any kind of a job. A majority will find that job, and in it they will remain. In these four years of school- ing they worked without regard for the future: thus they will work tomorrow. Lacking the necessary motivation to spur them on to do better things, they will still be in the Page one same spot thirty years from now, married. comfortable perhaps. but with little to look back upon and still less to look forward to. There are those of us, too many of us, who will carry into the world of tomorrow the same disregard for author- ity that we have shown during these four years. Unless we change, we will become society's outcasts, lawbreakers, undesirable citizens, petty criminals, even major offenders. That some of us will spend our world of tomorrow in confinement in prisons or disciplinary institutions is de- plorable. This, then, is the class of 1939. citizens of a world that teems with opportunity, a world that offers its wealth to any ambitious and resourceful individual. At no time in history have chances for advancement been so numerous, so challenging. That world out there demands men with ideas: it asks for intelligence, originality, leadership, charac- ter. That universe into which we step is one in which competition is keen, where intellect is needed to solve the ever-increasing complexities life offers, where justice is swift. where success does not depend on chances or luck. Equipped with whatever qualifications we have made for ourselves in these years just past, we pause, knowing that the world of tomorrow, like that of yesterday and today, will be exactly what we make it. we