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

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Herbert P. Stellwagen

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TI-IE SCRIP Dear Soldan Folks: A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving. In these words, Albert Einstein expresses the thought of a great man who appref ciates the privileges and the blessings that are his because other men have lived and worked, have struggled and sacrificed, have endured severe hardships and have fought against and conquered ditiiculties all but insurmountable, have remained true to visions of worthiness and service, have bled and died that others after them might have life and might have it more abundantly. He includes in his appreciation and gratitude those who are at work in the present as well as those who have contributed much in all the past. In the present, there are those who are adding beauty to the total of human happiness,-beauty in art, beauty in literature, beauty in music, those who are reveal- ing further reaches in character, citizenship, service, those who in science are opening up great new fields to knowledge, to industry, to human welfare, those in medicine who are finding daily new means of contributing to health and happinessg those in many other lines of endeavor who are making possible for us almost unbelievable progress. For all of this, we may well join with Einstein in understanding, appreciaf tion, gratitude, for all that thus from others becomes ours in opportunity, happiness, wellfbeing, and we may well, too, join with him in rededication of ourselves in grati- tude and work and service, by saying as he does, I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am receiving. Through all the long past, so very much has been dared, so very much has been given for others, so very much in many lines has been accomplished! All of this culf minates in the present, in this great day so richly ours! How very much we have for which to be grateful in a thousand iields for beauty and worthiness and attainment, for splendid opportunities of being nobler, of seeing more clearly, of working more devotedly and achieving more significantly! How much we need to give in return for all that has been done for us! How devotedly and eiiiciently we need to exert ourselves in attaining now and in preparation for greater and greater accomplishment and service as we go on along our way! Unless we value highly indeed all that has been done and is being done by others, unless we are willing to cherish and protect and guard what others have entrusted into our hands for safefkeeping, unless we want desperately to contribute the best that we can and think and do to that heritage which we shall eventually NINE