-lExCalz'bznN v TO THE CLASS OF l926:-- Greetings and congratulations! To be sure this marks an important mile stone in your life. You have finished a task which you started four years ago, and you have done it well. Many of you will enter college. To those of you that do we bid God speed, and upon the completion of your career we welcome you, whole-heartedly, back to the NSmall City That Does Big Things.U To those of you who will not enter institutions of higher learning we bid you welcome to the commercial pursuits of our city, and further hope that you will strive continually toward making Van Wert a better place in which to live and do business. As the swift flying years will soon find you carrying the burdens of the already elderly men and women around you, may your watchword be honesty and integrity, your motto service above self, and may your heart be always bent toward co-operative effort. In co- operation and organization there is strength, strength capable of often times doing the impossible. Just as these factors are capable of winning athletic contestsg making possible this splendid civic edition of the Excalibur, etc., so are they responsible for the building of a city. My individual criticism of the High School and College graduate of today is the fact that very few really know what trade or profession they intend to follow at the time of graduation. May this not be true of a single member of the class of 1926. Choose your vocation wisely, know where you are going, then exert every effort toward that end. In my daily duties I come in contact with many transients. Scarcely a one has any objective in life, no trade or profession. When asked what they are qualified to do, their answer invariably is Wanythingn or neverything.n Answers of this nature mean very little in the present day of specialized work. As you the class of 1926 is being turned out of --- grinding mill of Van Wert High School accept our most gi- -re compliments, because we are fully aware of the i yi. NN hat within your power lies the future of our city. Very sincerely yours, X m xi COMMUN1 E ING Us Q , Qt l vc. fr V By , gf. I ecutive S cret y- X I we W 15 I Ct, qi -ei' g ,fl 0 1926 14
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