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

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fVlr. Stellwagenls Message DEAR SOLDAN Boys AND GIRLS: How great is our privilege of living and working with you! You are so important in what you may be and may do for human betterment and human progress that joy is ours in the hope that we may be helpful to you on your way to the accomplishment of the glory that may be yours. Meeting you in individual conferences, in various groups, in the school assemf blies, we are overwhelmed by the thought of your splendid potentialities for right' eousness, for achievement, for usefulness. How earnestly, at all times, do we hope that your eyes may be opened to see the beauty and loveliness of noble character and of worthy living, and to catch the vision of the great dignity of splendid achievement in workmanship and of high usefulness to society that your life may be! How deeply do we want you to open your minds and think on these matters and to decide so to live! May you in your very souls decree to go ever and irrevocably onward and upward to the utmost peaks of glorious being and doing and serving! For such greatness and glory, careful, prayerful attention must be given to our attitudes as to ourselves and as to all others. We all remember the great words of Stephen Vincent Benet in his expression PRAYER. That statement is so adequate that we may well have part of it again before us. ts Yet most of all grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years-a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds. We are all of us children of earth-grant us that simple knowledge. If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed. If they hun' ger, we hunger. If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure. Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peace, that he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom, and security, an equal chance to do his best, not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in the faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make. Amen. To keep moving towards the goal of highest worthiness and greatest usefulness in our lives, we need to be ever watchful of ourselves, ever rigidly in control of our' TI-IE SCRIP MGH,

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Herbert P. Stellwaggen Principal

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NINE TI-IE SCRIP selves. It is so very easy to put the insignificant and crude and unworthy in the place of rightness in merryfmaking, so easy to put selfishness where welfare of others should be our concern, so easy to let laziness and indifference displace zeal and high endeavor, so easy to forget to put first things first, so easy to lose the great vision! How impor- tant it is, therefore, that we keep ourselves ever in line, ever faithful to our worthiest selves, ever earnestly at work on the highest purposes of which we are capable, ever true to the glorious vision of living nobly and serving greatly! It's a matter of minute' byfminute vigilance and of dayfbyfday high effort. Will you join me in liking very much the lines of Samuel Ellsworth Kiser's TODAY? This day is mine-my own! The sun Looks o'er the world's red rim at meg The countless days before this one All dawned that this great day could be: The aeons that have passed were all Required to bring this glorious day To let my moving shadow fall Across the level way. 9 tv. The past-the long, long tapering past- But ope'd the way and cleared the scene For this day that has dawned at last! This greatest of all days! Between The dawn and night shall I but sway In idleness, or heartily Do something well to mark this day That I have lived to see? In this spirit, let us seek to use every day to take us forward in our growth in dignity and significance. Our earnest wish for you all, Soldan Boys and Girls, is that you become the men and women of the highest quality of which you are capable, so that your happiness and the general welfare may be served. We are proud of you, and we know that you can, if you will attend to it, move on and on up the heights of splendor of which we speak! We pray that you will devote yourselves earnestly and constantly to these beautiful ends! Sincerely yours, H. P. STELLWAGEN