Watervliet High School - Wasena Yearbook (Watervliet, MI)

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Zaafwiafg -1 S, SEATED left to rrght Ellrotr Spreen Presrdent James Colman Secretary V1rg1n1a Besemer Treasurer Alden Whrte Trustee Leonard Krall V1cePres1dent MRS MARTHA MALIN School Secretary Mrs Ma11n has worked in the Super rntendent s office srnce 1953 She does all the accountmg typlng and short hand. Her BSSISIBHCS 1S greatly appre elated by everyone

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0016 My last message for theWatervl1etH1gh SchoolAnnual 1960 Senrors of Watervl1et Hrgh School' what a day to be ahve I offer you congratulat1ons Great problems are yours to help answer There 15 one th1ng Wh1Ch goes far beyond the reach of log1c one thlng that 15 greater than all matenal attarnment and that 15 the nob1l1ty and dlglllty of human sp1r1t Every teacher worthy of the name must know that he must send out of h1s schoolroom young people w1th three acqurred purposes FIISI a l1m1tless cur1os1ty to know Second an 1mpulse to make h1S l1fe count MR DON ALDSON Thrrd some technique for Hndrng out what he must know Berng a schoolman I put what I have to say 1n four 1tems FIISI I should educate for DIRECTION The ma1n def1c1ency of young people IS that they are too late rn achrevrng a sense of d1rect1on They have not grven suffrcrent thought to the questron of havrng an a1m rn l1fe My second rtem IS COURAGE not specrfic bravery but the courage whrch enables one to make an adjustment to all the d1ff1cult crrcumstances of 11fe Educauon must meet head on the problem of secur1ty materral moral and spurt ual secur1ty Too many people today are almost abnormally preoccupled w1th the subject of soc1a1 or government secu r1ty It IS a fallacy for people to belteve that they can get sometlung for nothrng The darkest hour 1n any man s 11fe IS when he srts down to plan how to get money wrthout earn1ng II Horace Greely My thtrd pomt 1S IMAGINATION Imagrnatron IS the f1nest flower of educatron Imagrnatron has wr1tten the books pa1nted the PICIUICS and bu1lt the br1dges of the world even the B1g Mac Through rmagmatron we are educated enough to env1s1on a drfferent world To have a drfferent world we must have dxfferent people Makrng drfferent peo ple 1S a slow process It must work w1th unceasrng patrence on 1nd1v1duals 1n the Albert Schweltzer manner My fourth and f1nal rtem of course IS FAITH a renewed fa1th that lxfe has meanrng and purpose and d1rect1on The morel look about the more I am convrnced that those who bel1eve as General MacArthur has sa1d that from here on rt 15 a sp1r1tual problem are the only true real1sts left I say to you that all these thrngs must f1rst be seen by the eyes of men before they can be brought down upon the earth All th1s IS 1n the f1eld of educauon educat1on for d1rect1on for courage for 1mag1nat1on and for farth Thrs year brrngs an end to the very pleasant slxteen years of profess1onal cooperat1ve work and the sumulatrng asso CIBIIOH my w1fe and I have had w1th all the wonderful people who have attended or have been connected 1n anyway w1th the Watervlret school system The preparat1on of the superrntendent s messages for the School Annual has been exc1t1ng SXSICISC I have vrewed the assrgnment as a professronal opportunrty and a ser1ous respons1b1l1ty It has grven me the opportunrty to express whatl belreved Anyhow the productron of these messages has been a lot of fun as well as a little work And if a few readers have re exam1ned the1r own v1ews as a result of my efforts and even two or three have been strmulated to POSIIIVC actron rt has all been worthwlule And sol have come to the end of the l1ne Omar Khayyam gave us the t1meless words The movrng frnger wr1tes and havrng wr1t moves on So dol Good luck and goodbye Stncerely and cordrally Elery R Donaldson Superrntendent of Schools dfdd ' ' - . . I I . . . , . ' ' , . , . . . - I . , . n , - ' I I ' I , 1 I . . - I I ' I I I I . . I ' - I I . I .