South High School - Warrior Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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gD'aretneII IME marches on! As to all men, there comes an interval when one must lay aside his daily vocation and retire to the en- forced obscurity of inaction or to the blissful haven of useful and delightful leisure, so one of these alternatives must happen to me. It is a difficult matter to say uFarewell to South High especially when one has been with it from its birth. There are only three of the original faculty left: Mr. Foster, Mr. Zinninger, and your humble servant. The first session began in September, 1911, with an enroll- ment of 365, exactly the number of days in the year. Looking back, it seems like yesterday. 1 thought then that I was youthful, and 1 still labor under that delusion. The fact of the matter is 1 was of middle age at that timefanxious and scheming and desiring and wishing this plan ripened and that hope fulfilled while every wave of forgotten Time brought me nearer and nearer to my present state. And here I am. The mirror tells the truth even though the affection of my friends pretends not to see it. Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Middle Age, but the sighs of youth are often only misplaced or excessive heart affections. 'To sigh yet feel no pain. To older people, deeper sorrows come. 1 have had my share, but to a large extent they have been mitigated by the pleasures of my life at South High. 1 have enjoyed teaching. I like young life. The smiles of the boys and girls have lightened my heart many a time. I only hope that in doing my duty, as 1 saw it, I have not placed a lasting shadow upon any soul. The association with my colleagues on the faculty has been a joy never to be forgotten. 1 know that I shall miss them. That the Old School may live long and prosper is the fondest wish of HERBERT L. JONES -0426 5 Eau.-

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GLIJB Brinripal anh ilais Message fmfllil annual publication of South High is the record of the cher- ished happenings of the three best years of your life preserved for all time by picture and story. It is a kind of memory land, the journey through which becomes more enjoyable as the scene is colored by the mellowing effect of distance. Vlfith each passing year, your annual becomes more and more valuable to you as the iridescence of memory and reminiscence blend in a rainbow of beautiful colors lengthened and adorned by the bright sunlight of present success. For you, high school represents the first active unit of endeavor in your life. lt is the time when you dream dreams and see visions that eventually are destined to become realities if only you are practical enough to interpret them as signs pointing the way to successful accomplishment. Through the shimmering mists where you now stand, you see stretching away before you the shining pathway to success, dazzlingly brilliant in its promise. That success, however, is yours only if you strive for it. The architectural plans drawn today upon the dreams and visions of yesterday are not sufficient unto them- selves alone. They must be scaled to fit your inherent capacity to work, then to bring them to fruition, you must exhaust every atom of energy of which you stand possessed. Your rainbow of dreams must be planned with vision and fashioned by hard work. ln your struggle onward and upward, it will be well for you to keep ever firmly fixed in your mind this precept-keep genuine honesty as your guiding rule of action, for honesty is the keystone holding aloft the span of arching rainbow dreams that show the certain way to greater success. George Washington, one of the greatest successes the world has ever known, once said, Nl hope I shall always possess firm- ness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles-the character of an honest man. So let it be with you. Our parting wish for you is that you may enjoy health and happi- ness and a full measure of success in the years that lie aheadg and our fondest hope for ourselves is that you will come back to us out of your future successes so that our lives may be enriched by your friendship. ROBERT L. FLEMING -..sg 7 13..-