Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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2---2 S --:Lf--A-fqk, -ff -1-if 5-f rqj.-,ig - 15375-f Y cooperation with others, for each at the very moment of his attainment of full privilege and responsibility of citizenship, were in his promise of devotion to utmost effort for upbuilding in all ways. Service in the army was part of the obligation but it was only part of the pledge. One can imagine the young athletes, at any ceremony of dedication, with bodies lithe, beautiful, and well-trained, detennined to give their utmost in the Olympic Games, to win success for them- selves and their families, and to add to the glory of Athens. Others, too, were offering themselves to devoted effort each in his own field of greatest possibility :-perhaps a young Pericles dreaming of a gift to his beloved city in the realm of statesmanshipg a youthful Phidias beginning to plan glorious templesg a Praxiteles thinking of beauty to be portrayed in marble, a Sophocles longing to win fame in poetry and thus to bring added ornament to his cityg a Socrates, a Plato, or a Demosthenes with visions of achievement and service in teaching, in philosophy, or in oratoryg each desiring the utmost of worthiness of achievement for himself and for the city of his opportunity and his allegiance, in order that Athens might remain supreme and that its culture might increase. So still today, it is to youth that we look, with hope and with con- fidence, for devotion to the preservation and the upbuilding of all that is worthy in all our institutions. For them, we have the passion of thor- ough education and careful training, and from them we expect the best that they can give to society in their achievement, in their character, in their service. For our part, shall we at Soldan sometimes pause for an examina- tion of ourselves, our motives, our ideals? Shall we ask ourselves whether or not we are individually and collectively doing all we can in all right lines? Are we learning well enough how to strive both alone and with many for ideals and sacred things , never allowing selfish desires to obscure the vision of service? Shall we again and again renew our determination to transmit to those after us, the boons that we have received, and to give them from our hands greater, better and more beautiful than they came to us? This is our hope. Sincerely yours, Herbert P. Stellwagen. 9

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In Memory of Two beloved teachers, whose many years of faithful devotion to duty and of loyal service to Soldan won our admiration, whose appreciation of excellence in scholarly and cultural attain- ment inspired us, and whose kindly under- standing and friendly guidance endeared them to us Thomas Howard MacQueary William john Hall Their spirit forever lives in those high thoughts with which they enriched our lives.