The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-02
COOP STUDENTS
HEAR SPEAKERS
w. w. Shepard, Of Philadel-
phia And Boston, And
McFarlane Speak
RY GLENWARD BLOMME

DEPARTMENT of New Hanover High
school continued its schedule of
guest speakers from various walks
of life and from different classes
of trades and business during the
past week with W. w. Shepard of
PHILADELPHIA and Boston speaking
on the topic: Personality" and
George McFarlane of Macs Auto
Parts Co., giving the students a
most interesting talk about some
of the things a business nan U.s.
ually expects of his employees.
Mr.. Shepard, appearing before
the class on Tuesday, based his
talk on the judgment of the Chi
nese of character and personality
by your culture and refinement
based on the moral and aesthetic.
Much Of our personality de-
ponds on what w say and just how
we say it," said Mr.. Shepard. He
continued, The first thing that
we did when we were born was to-
use Jul voices-and cry. We had
a cry for hunger-another for pain
-another cry was raised in anger
Our mothers could tell the diff
ference in our cries"
I'VE then found that we had
other assets: lips, tongue. Then,
we began to use them, as well as
our other physical assets, and
during our first year we walked
and made more complicated sounds
with our voices. During the Sec
ond year we started to talk and
thus accomplished an. intellectual
feat of which we were very proud.
1t was then your task to collect
words and you began to ask nu-
merous questions, such as: What
is this? What is that? etc. Some
Of us collect a great many words
while others collect only a few
words.
If you wrap your answer to
school questions in fine, attractive
Words-you get a better grade
than if you deal in shabby words.
Campaigns are won with words
more than deeds. International
battles are won with words. These
words are a most important part
of your personality.
Your face is what you meet
the public with and what you think
and feel is expressed en- your face.
That makes it an important matter
to control your feelings and to
think worthwhile things
The greatest part of your Der
sor&iity is your psychology. Your
psychology is divided into three
major classifcations: Intellect
sensibilities and will. Your intel
lect involves:-Reason, judgment,
imagination, memory, perception
or sight, hearing, smell, touch and
taste. Your sensibilities involve:
-Appetites, emotions, desires-such
as: wealth, power, pleasure and
knowledge. Your will involves:-
Habit in the individual and Gus
tom in society,""
perception, M Of the divisions
of your intellect has a wide range.
From taste, when we must place
something in our months in order
to know the reaction, to sight
where we behold the faTtherest
star billions of miles away"
Some folks say that your per-
sonality is displayed in your hand
writing. This may or may not be
true, but if it is then we can say
that personality shows in: Our
voices, our signatures, u finger
prints, our faces and u psyche
logies.'
1T is easy to tear things apart,
but difficult to put them back to-
gether in a that will in
sure their workability. To do any
task correctly and consclentlously
is to build your personality. 1t is
important that we develop our IN
~tellect, controlling the sensibilities
and being aware of exercising the
will in a wholesome manner.
Mr.. Shepard is 81 years OF age
and spends his winters in Florida.
He stopped in Wilmington to spend
a few days because of natural at
fractions and wherever he goes he
offers his services to schools. His
aim is to lead a useful life as long
as possible and to pass on to others
what he has learned.
Mr.. McFarlane stressed the need
of accuracy and good workman
ship in any trade or profession. He
insisted that a piece of work, no
matter how small, be done we'll.
He is of the opinion that the aver
age business man is now seeing
the need of a sound apprentice
training system and that in the
future there will be no period of
laxity in training young people for
definite employment, as has exist
ed in the past II or IA years.
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