St Benedict High School - Benedictum Yearbook (Highland Park, MI)

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Page ffty-two t XCN 1 'fx ey og , y. g ICHIGA Xywhgfil 0 T TT' at if - ii OU it i , TUDE T es?bL.1-' Of the millions who have studied in Michigan, Thomas A. Edison is the most famous. Yet the man who did so much for humanity never had more than a few years of formal education. Forced to discontinue school, young Tom Edison worked on the Grand Trunk railroad between Port Huron and Detroit. Fortunately for the world, his train had a daily layover of nearly five hours in Detroit. For Thomas A. Edison, high school and college were an ancient build- ing, the Young Men's Society Library, on Jefferson Avenue, a few doors east of Woodward. Between THE DETROI Y x P MH runs, he buried himself in its books, devouring them, not by subject or author, but by shelf and section. Throughout his life, this desire to learn was characteristic of Mr. Edison. At eighty, he was as diligent as he had been at eighteen. While few of us have his thoroughness and capacity for concentration, all of us can profit by his example. For Mr. Edison's life and works are clear-cut evidence that education need never stop with graduation or with the end of formal schooling. Despite the excellence of our high schools and colleges, that is as true in our day as it was in his. T EDI 0 co. 1117 ii' Q Q 4' 4' 9 O Mg- A 4' :: pgs' ' Q g if , ' i' TE V

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and now... ,B X XX Y That's the way it is-always it seems so far away . . . The Future. Then suddenly it's here today. Graduation. A new start on new things. For a girl it's a little like- well . . . a little like being in the clouds, without any solid and accustomed ground. It means the adventure of building all over again, building on the foundation that years of school have meant. We know how it is, because every year so many girl J graduates find their place with Michigan Bell and l carve out a real place in the world of business with us. They find it a happy place to make a natural transition. Here at Michigan Bell you are almost certain to find some of your friends, and the kind of young men and women with whom you'll like to make new friends. Among all the pleasant things about telephone work, there are many sound business advantages-a variety of jobs, high starting wages along with a gradual learning processg regular and frequent wage increases, opportunities for advancementg understanding super- visorsg paid vacations, and numerous others. If you're a girl soon to finish school, and are thinking of entering business life, we of Michigan Bell would like to have you visit us prior to graduation so we can tell you all about our work. MICHIGAN BEl.I. TELEPHONE COMPANY W Page fiffy-0112

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V HARRIGAN 6' REID COMPANY Heating and Plumbing Engineers Sheet Metal Work CAdilIac 0243-0244 1345-1365 Bagley Avenue, Detroit, Michigan V Page fifty-th