East Grand Rapids High School - Interlochen Yearbook (East Grand Rapids, MI)

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BOARD Ol EDUCATION DIAMONDS Years ago the chuldren nn South Africa used to play wnth prettv tone thev found on the hlllsndes Men occasnonallv polxshed partncularlv bright one thev lutkcd up wnth their feet and carried them a trlnltet ID thelr pocltets or tossed them about Then one dav a man wnth expert knowledge of precvou tone happened to see some of them He examined them closely 'md dl covered they were diamond 'Thus began the great dramond lndustry of South Afrrca ln lnfe we often toss away as pretty stone of lrttle value opportunme whlch are diamonds of priceless worth Tnme for xnstanee The golden hours whlch glxde so swiftly by How rrch they can be m experlence rn hne friend hlps nn mental growth MR BBN DE UN Yet how often we squander them rn tnflmg pa trme 1 though they were bauhle 1 president xnsrgnlflcance Thtsr what sehool rs for, young fnends to help you dr txnguxsh between the dmamonds and the pretty stones of life Your years tn chool have taught you some of the rmportant values whrch vou ought to seek In order to End happme s and usefulness Other diamonds and other prettv stones, you wlll dxscover later nn the hard school of experxence It IS 1 tragedy of lnfe that some of u dxscover too late that what we hold m our hand and thought were dnamonds are only prettv. stones The dlamonds are then beyond reach You young men and women have partlcular talent Think of them a pncele s dlamond to be polished and made beautiful and serviceable not a unimportant trmket to trxfle wlth Some of you have a leannng toward medlcme or lan or public service Some have a sclentlst s or a chemxst s mind Some have the abrllty to wnte, or pamt or design, or man age people or bu mes Develop those talents Gne them full cope Do not play wlth them rlhev are your partxcular diamonds All of u ln Ea t Grand Raplds are proud of our school property but we must not forget that the mea ure of 1 school s worthl not how line nts bulldmgs are but hovs hne and useful cmzen nts graduates become Our community 1 proud of you voung men and women We expect great thmg of you ln years to come We look for you to occupv pos: tlons of responslbllm ln government and lndustrv and the professtons Perhaps from East will come some research genrus who wrll dlscover at last a cure for cancer and win the undying gratltude of humamty Perhaps some greater en meer to harness the free energy of the world to serve the ways of man Some great statesman wrse enough to dl trrbute the boun tles of the fields and mines and factortes so that no one need suffer or be rn want We congratulate the lntzrlochen staff on its IDIIIZIIVC and energy rn revnvmg the annual school publlcatxon, and we bespeak for you a profitable school experrence and a wtsdom and dlscernment that wall enable you to select unerrmglw the cllamond of life President of the Board of Education I 'Ay Vxce President Secretary Treasurer Trustee 6 F7 A f I . F21 - - . Z - ' , . Z 5 . -c , . , ?' K' 1. ' ,,' ' as D j fs' ., M. . , ' 'j C . - . . I, 2 , Q rn f be x 1 I . j ,, Z' . -1 m ' D ' . Z --- , f ff. - F , .,,. , . ' . Ji K Y ' - I ' . . ' - , l . O I . . - U' . : :ff T - . . ' - , :U A L 'K 'l ' 1 v . ' P . . I , ' . TT! u. -4 . - , . - g. . . - F' ' .0 fn . ,11 ' V . l ' ' '. . . ' f1,' ' . . 'JU ' ' ' , r E A ' . , . . .J W . 2 a . -. . - . O , ' - I . W 2 M j' , - . . ,D ' , Z 4 ' ' . ' : ' . 5 if F: Q . M . . , , g r' ' - 'A . I - L, ' , - ' . rn . . , L - U ' . 1 . . 2 g if us' t ' 'l ' 1 .,, ff, 'T , .I ' ' . . U A X , ' . . U 'f ' lil . ' ' ' ' ' rf- A 'l 1 L UQ ' A '- Z w ' M- , . . ' -s gf f ,f , - . . , ,, Q - t E ,' . I . I v. ' I - . ' ' ' ' C3

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that m Mr Beadle East Hxgh School has had a super1or executlve They are proud of the progress whleh therr school has made under hxs direction SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS The East Grand Raprds students recognize the fact Supermtcndent f East Grand Raprds Schools MR WESLEY B BEADLF TO THE CLASS OF THIRTY FIVE l am mdeed happy to vvrlte for the lnlzrloelzzn taff of nmetcen thrrtv ine The progrc of the members of the class of nmeteen hundred thirty tive through the Fast Grand Rapid Publrc Schools ha been of deep mterest to me You entered the grades the same year that my connectuon vvrth the e schools begm md I have had opportumtv to watch your splendxd growth through sux years m the grades three years IH the umor Hugh School and three vear ln the Semor Hxgh School Trme swlftly flies We are celcbratmg nn Fast Grand Rapxds thus year the one hundredth anmversary of the establxshment of the flrst school for white chlldren ln the lower Grand River valley We thlnlc of one hundred vears 1 hung a long txme and yet have you members of thus year s Senior Cla nn the Fast Grand Rapid Hugh School ever stoppel to conslder the fact that your own school experlence covers nearlv one enghth of thus century penodl And none of you are very old yet You were born durmg the peruod of the World War Our country was then mvolved un that great struggle slxth of a centurv ago-sxx tlmes the length of the perrod elapsed smce then IS equal to the pernod elapsed snnce the locat mg of that Ftrst school ID thus school drstrxct Measured thu even the events of anclent 1nd medreval tlmes take on a new svgmficance and a conception of the contmulty of txme and of hlstory IS galned Truly our ovvn experiences nn school life have a place rn this scheme of things and the chool year blolts are the records thereof Dunng this one eighth of a century that ha elapsed vvhlle you have been rn school the major development of the educatlonal facllltles and organlzatlon of the schools ln th: school dxstrxct has taken place The same autumn you entered the grades the additional school site was acqumred Ten vear ago when you had been un school two vear the schools were first accredlted by the bnner IIX of Mxchlgan and the IN-o th Central -Xssocxatnon of Colleges and Secondary School Soon after that the new bunldmgs were erected anu last year the athletxc field was developed And thus the t y g e on You and l have seen rt have partlcnpated m nt and o Cla of Nmeteen Thlrty hve I salute vou ln the name of the flne commumtv vvhvch h1 nurtured you and of the fine te ther who hue taught you permit me to con r1tulate you Jag! , . . ff g g C r , 'I A ' .7 , . V i ' o X . - - 4 ' 1 - I S ' 1 . f-G v . .SS Q u ' ' '- . . ' s ' ' .s ' 3 . . . 1, ' V' S I y A , ' i. 1. i - I ' 'f X I' 1 Q 4? ' , , ' ' ss , s ' t but you do not remember nt. You only hear it talked about or you read about lt. And yet that World War occurred one- . . , S 1- - ' u Q . . . - . 1' S ' . , U . , . y ' ' . .' ' . .. S , '. ' . 4. S, , . I 5 I A A 5. ' ' , ' , ' . I' . ' ' . ' s or o s u U Q . y ' . . . , S , SS .. . 3. v , 1 G ' ' ' .s ' a' s ' . ' ' , ' g . ' . a