When I graduated in 1962, I cut out and saved a list published by the Des Moines Register in the OVER THE COFFEE column put out by Harlan Miller.
50 HINTS
FOR THE 1962's GRAD"S
Wrapped in a $100 bill, these "secrets of Success" make a graduation gift at which few of 1962's high school or college grads will turn up a nose. I offer them mercifully in lieu of a lot of grad speeches I've dodged.
***********************for success hidden from you.
- Keep a diary to watch yourself mature.
- Remember: Good posture excels fancy clothes.
- Treat Dad & Mom as friends only a little older; listen to them! Pay attention. They're on your side.
- Save a little; $1,000 makes you freer.
- Read papers & magazines; editorials, articles, fiction.
- Adopt 4 indoor and outdoor hobbies.
- Be polite to all; to the rude, even if it hurts.
- Act as the equal of any man or woman alive.
- Play a musical instrument, if only a phonograph.
- To make the world listen, speak softly, enunciate clearly.
- Nobody else owns mystic secrets.
- Be extra polite driving a car, when your Ugly Monster inside tries to roar.
- Why drink liquor unless a doctor prescribes it.
- Cigarette money can pay your premiums on a $9,000 insurance policy.
- Don't shun an hour alone; a chance to think.
- Write down your own plans and rules.
- A good book intelligence surpass good looks or cl& weekly invigorates your brain.
- Begin to buy land young, or a suburban lot.
- Study dictionary & encyclopedia; full of gems.
- There 's no organized opposition. -------------to be continued
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