Carthage High School - Carthaginian Yearbook (Carthage, MO)

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! lx--xnxexnxexnx-exu Eihp cllgffhggfnign rx -ll lI':t'!I'- ex: To the Alumni: In behalf ol' every one here enrolled let me assure you of our great love and pride in the traditions that you have given Alma Mater, and of our solemn ambition to be worthy of them. Sincerely yours, G. R. DEATHERAGE, Principal of High School. Let us retrace the path that our feet have trodden these twelve years since that day of yesteryear when the class that was our class :cat proudly marshalled on the stage awaiting the hour of hours. Let us stretch out a hand in friendly sympathy and greeting to this, the latest class, soon to fill those same seats and feel these same thrills. Years may come and years may go, but the proud Seniors are with us still. Faces change and buildings moulder, but the Spirit of C. H. S. so tenderly cherished in the hearts of her seventeen-hundred graduates lives forever. Greetings from the class of 1910. LOUISE HALLIBURTON, President, Alumni Association. The soft light of memory backward is cast, Revealing the treasures and joys of the past. Thus sang the class of 1903 on its graduation night, in the old opera house. This soft light of memory certainly has been cast backward many times by many people, during thf week while the records of the sixteen hundred graduates of Carthage High School have been gathered into one great alumni directory. One cannot fail to be impressed with the bigness of the school, its far-reaching influences, and the achievments of its sons and daughters, It brings the feeling that one of the things worth while in life is to be able to say of Carthage High School: Alma Mater, Here's to you! SUSAN M'COY, '03, Optop, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, April S, 1922. Since my last lame greeting' to the Carthaginian I've seen a Lon- don summer as dry-atmospherically speaking-as Mr. Volstead's lawg a France of woeful wastes and magnificent recuperative quali- tiesg the Alps which annually are crossed in every well regulated Commcncementg Rome with its glowing impressiveness and Monte Carlo with its radiant beautyg Ford-less Veniceg bustling Brussels, and even warmed my cheeks at the high-set fireside of Vesuvius- not to mention a large assortment of other places and experiences. But-and this is the most interesting part of my pilgrimage- when I beheld the sun-up countenances of two Carthaginians-Mr. and Mrs. Sewall-in the Cecil in London, I knew that home-folk are the finest sights to be seen abroad. And the old Carthage days came back-trooping' from the open gates of memory like mummers on parade. The days of White and Doddg of the one-mule-power trolley and the Saturday night band concerts 3 of Grant Pauley and the Democratic PAGE I 59