Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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10 .---. .,.O Q... 0' ' N 'st Eigqin D 'A' 'CQ : E g A- .gg ,fi 'll 0:5 E 'p,.,.-,gg ' : ,fit ' V Qfl. 1 www A qs.. :A 'E hvl game .E 1? uf' ' fx'lo k ' ' '.. 3 .I V lj V :fa ' aff.. A wmv 2. tk Loyalty to Your School Loyalty has always been ranked high in the list of human virtues. Since the beginning of the development of the human race, disloyalty has been frowned upon, and loyalty looked upon with the highest favor. How to give loyalty, and how to deserve and secure it from others constitute problems worthy of serious study. ' First of all, one must be loyal to himself before he is capable of manifesting loyalty to another, or to any cause or principle. It has been well said, To thine own self be true, and it will follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. Be true to yourself, to your best thoughts, to your loftiest emotions, to your noblest ambitions, to your moving, controlling life aim, and you can never fail in your loyalty to any principle, cause or institution to which you pledge loyalty. But, how can one be true to himself when no stable, abiding self-hood has been built up? For one cannot dream himself into a personality or self-hood, rather one must live, grow, develop, build himself into such. One can not be one thing today and another tomorrow, and by such means ever hope to build into a personality capable of giving loyalty or of receiving loyalty from another. One cannot be honest today and dishonest tomorrowg faithful today and unfaithful tomorrow: true today and untrue tomorrow and hope by any such means to build a stable, abiding self- hood capable of either giving or receiving loyalty. Again there is a marked difference of opinion as to what constitutes a mani- festation of loyalty. It is not by any means always the one who throws his hat the highest, or yells the loudest, or indulges in the most varied phases of outward mani- festations who holds at heart, or in the truest sense shows forth the deepest and most abiding spirit of loyalty. Who among you this year is the most loyal to your school? The most loyal of our student body are those who at all times have been found reliable and dependableg who have regularly met all assignments to the highest point of capabilityg who have willingly and gladly at all times listened to and been guided by the friendly advice and counsel of those in constituted authorityg and who have at all times been found on the side of the highest ideals and most lasting tenets of Woodward High School. Many of these, I am convinced, though not all I am sure. have been content to be found quietly pursuing the even tenors of their respective ways, neither attaining nor aspiring to prominence' in the public eye, though not by any means unnoticed or unappreciated on the part of the teaching force or the more serious minded, more appreciative of their fellow students. They are most loyal to our school who, among our students, manifest in daily conduct, both in school and out, the highest degree of appreciation of the privileges and opportunities extended to them by the patrons of this districtg who daily show forth the highest degree of reason, judgment, self-control, self-direction, poise, bal- ance, high idealism as a product of the training received from school contact and as- sociatitonsg who assume and hold, in the years that shall follow, such an attitude that will not only maintain the present high standards of your school, but will also help to make for higher, better and more lasting standards from year to year for those students who shall follow after you. J. W. TYLER.