Warren Easton High School - Eagle Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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 - r CHORAL GROUP JO ANN BURGARD, SYLVIA SELLEN DONALD KENT

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I open this message with a touch of regret, for my first year as Principal of the Warren Easton High School has drawn to a close without my getting to know personally each of the graduates of our 1957 class. However, if 1 am allowed the privilege, I would like to offer this message to the senior class of 1957 as a dedicated theme for all Easton graduates. Debates have been raging for many years as to whether or not the most important factor in our educational lives is brains or capacity. Here at Warren Easton it has always been capacity and capacity it always will remain. In order that we understand the difference between both, brains is a gift and capacity is acquired. Capacity represents human efforts and not merely something which came by inheritance. In a democracy such as ours, one should not be honored or praised because of his inheritance, but should be honored because of his sincere efforts toward using to full advantage all of his God- given qualities. Nothing useful or helpful has come from brains alone. They come from the concentration of effort, the development of skill from the qualities which we sum up in the one word—capacity. To you—Seniors and Graduates of 1957—carry this message with you and your years at Warren Easton will have been the most productive of any. HARRY T. GARLAND