Velma Alma High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Velma, OK)

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HUHHICHHE5 A school, community, state, or nation can be little better than the people wants it to be. Without the co- operation of the teachers, students, patrons and school board, our school could not have made the progress it has in the past four yearsg from 80 pupils in High School to 156, from 15 units of credit to 21 units of credit, from 15 teachers to 15 teachers, from 3 busses to 5 busses. Especially do I wish to commend the School Board members who have given unselfish service to our school throughout the most trying years in the educational history of the State. Success is not necessarily the attainment of the high- est office in the land--farmers, oil field workers, carpen- ters are as essential--it is rather the filling of your job well. 1. 2. Only that success which results in good is valuable Not mere grades and credit but knowledge gained which is of practical use and in its scope uplift- ing morally, spiritually, physically and mentally. Education should teach obedience and humility. 5. The purpose of education is not a process of grind- ing out loafers, incopetent or misfits lit has its, we have oursj motive to so train youth that youth may be ambitious to be better w k zens and to give better service Some da we shall turn the y se pages 1 sadness--like the pages of history to a to a life ill run. If I have inspired one boy or girl or ers, better citi- to their nation. in happiness or work well done or to nobler things or greater achievements I feel that I have done more than the mere teaching of Arithmetic or Grammar. ??A?,,W.J IJDITT EIVE UP THE , , SHIP