Shrum, Margaret - 1925

The Editing Staff

Editor-in-Chief

 ~ Jeannette Red and Blue, High School Year Book Vol. V, Number 1, 1925, Page 14

 

 

Editorial--- “Rainbows”

Margaret Shrum

Every High School student has heard about the “pot of gold” which imagination has created as being at the front of the rainbow.  Some of us have read stories of the adventures of boys and girls, who were trying to reach the rainbow in order to get that gold.  But, have any of them reached it?  Few, if any, have, even in fiction.  They were not ambitious and persevering enough to keep on among the hardships they had to endure.

“What is a rainbow?” is the question which often enters our mind.  This question is prompted mostly because we see them only when the sun shines during a shower.  It is simply the sun's reflection upon hundreds of tiny raindrops; a sunray becomes bent as it enters a drop of rain and thus disperses into many colors.  It is a natural spectrum, the sun impersonating the artist and the raindrops, the paints; the sun rays act as brushes which the artist uses to mix the paints.

Just as it takes so many tiny raindrops to complete a beautiful rainbow, so it takes a great many things to make a complete and joyous success; just as the adventurer has many disappointments on his way to seek the “pot of gold”, so each of us has many disappointments on the road to success.

Upon graduating, the members of the Senior Class will go out into the world to attain success.  But to attain that success they must have the determination of will to keep on toward their goal; they must consider their misfortunes and hardships as elements which will tend to strengthen their characters and increase their knowledge of the world and its treatment of mankind.  They must learn that all these things are as necessary to complete their success, as the raindrops are to create the rainbow.

Every high school student has some ambition to reach some definite goal.  That goal should contain the word, success!  The Seniors have reached, upon graduation, the first turn in the road to success.  Probably some of them thought they would reach the rainbow at the first curve, but as the boy in the story learned, it was still far away.  Every graduate should resume the journey until he reaches the end.  Many will do so by doing commercial work; “a few may fall by the wayside,” because the journey was too tiresome and disappointing, even for obtaining a reward at the end.

I take this opportunity to say to every high school student, whether he is a Freshman or a Senior, that unless he works patiently and earnestly toward his goal he will not reach his rainbow which to him is-- success!  He will lose, like those adventurers of story fame.  So let us all become earnest  travellers <sic> on the road to success , where, when we reach the end a truly great reward awaits us.
 ~ Jeannette Red and Blue, High School Year Book Vol. V, Number 1, 1925, Page 15