Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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The SENIOR SICKLE 1922 SALUTATO RY ESTHER KRUEGER X N, EMBERS of the Alumni, school patrons, and friends, the class of '22 greets you and extends a hearty welcome to our class day T ll' exercises. We feel honored by your presence here tonight and encouraged by your kindly interest in us. ' The goal toward which we have been striving during our High GAT 2 1 all wg TIN ikiju 'lll limi' 1 ir, f.i,X' .X-UW, lx.. Ekes' x W as School years will, within a day, have been reached, and we shall then enter upon a larger field of life. This is, therefore, particularly and peculiarly our day and our hour. This is the last time, perhaps, that the President of '22 will preside over our class, for, in a few brief moments, he will hand over the gavel, the symbol of authority, to the President of '23. The privileges and pleasures which we have enjoyed as a class, will soon be but pleasant memories, for the time has come when we must gird our armor about us and go forth into the battle of life to win for ourselves a name and place in the world of commerce, of scholarship, or of politics. Our equipment is good and our armor bright, and we feel that, if we keep our face to the foe, we shall be victorious in the contest. But I must hasten for Time draws on a pace and soon all school bonds will be broken, except those ties of friendship which we have formed during our school life and which will always bind our class together. We shall return in future years, doubtless, as alumni. Then we will endeavor, in part, to review those lessons which we have learned in the class room and on the athletic field during our High School course. In the meantime, let us be cheerful and enjoy the last few hours of our High School life and make them the best and brightest of them all. During the exercises tonight, I would have you listen to the representatives we have chosen as they project before you the pictures of our past school life, and as they prophesy of our future fortunes. To these exercises the class of '22 wishes to bid its friends a most cordial 'fWelcome.

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'Che SENIOR SICKLE 1922 Class Day Program Given at the Jffethodisl Episcopal Church W ednesday, func 7, I 922 Selection .... Invocation .... Salutzitory ..... History .... Vocal Solo ..... Prophecy--M Poem ....... Piano Solo .... Orution .... Will ........ Vocal Solo .......... Presentation Of Gavel .... Acceptance of Gavel .... Vziledictory ......... Benediction .... HIGH SCHOOL URCHESTRA -----REV. F. L. TAYLOR ----ESTHER KRUEGEIK ----LEILAH KERII ---EUGENE HALL - - - - - -WALTERA XVEISS -----MARGARETTA HAIEER ------RUTH ASH ----CARL ANGELL ---ERNEST KAPNICK ---EDITH CHURCH ------FOREST COOK -----CHARLES CHURCH -----MARIE KRUEGER -------REV. EARL R. RICE Selection ---- ----- H IGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA

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The SENIOR SICKLE 1922 -VALEDICTORY By MARIE KRUEGER gf: 135 NOTHER year of our school life is finished. To some of us this day will mean the end of school life, while to others it only marks lifawel' '1 t th h' h d i' B h' 1 l ,,23.,34Q,5 , a mi es one on T e way to a lg er e uca ion. ut w ICICVGI' ?ES1f'f1I?Qij,i course we choose, we can all find abundant cause to remember if-,AV 'WSE -I' fgild gl Y our High School with gratitude. The friendships formed between teacher and classmates, the associations which cluster around our High School, can never be forgotten. They will go with us through life and form an important part in the individual experience of each one of us. After the burden and heat of the day, when the battle of life has been fought and won, it will give us the greatest pleasure, no doubt, to remember many trifiing incidents which now seem scarcely worth the telling. Then also this Class Day and the past school days with their trials and triumphs will be recalled with pride and pleasure. In leaving our High School, we cannot, however, forget the great debt of gratitude which we owe to our teachers for the training, both moral and intellectual, which we have received from them. The high ideals which we have been led to form in the classroom are safe guides for us to follow. If they do not always bring us material prosperity, they at least will bring us lasting happiness and tl1e joy of noble service. The value of these ideals will become more apparent to us as we go out into the world and assume the duties and responsibilities of active life, but we realize now that with- out them, success in life would be impossible. Appolonius of Tyana, tells us in his Travels that he saw 'ta youth, one of the blackest of the Indians, who had between his eyebrows a shining moon. Another youth named Memmon, the pupil of Herodes, the Sophist, had this moon when he was young, but as he approached to man's estate, it grew fainter and fainter, and finally vanished. The world should see on each graduate's brow, as a shining moon, when he leaves High School, the impress of a high ideal. He should be watchful lest his actions cause this moon to vanish, and, sadder than all, vanishing, leave no sense of loss. To some of us, our High School training and our ideals will represent our entire capital in Life, to us it will mean the difference between success and failure. To our parents who have aided and encouraged us, and to the school patrons who are responsible for the upkeep of the public schools, and who have placed the means of education within the reach of all, only honor and credit is due. They have encouraged us to keep on when it seemed to us that our life was especially hard and to go on was almost impossible. To the school ofiicers of the present year, who have supported us in our undertakings and have shown their hearty interest in us, we return our sincerest thanks. And now, fellow classmates, the time has come for the inevitable separation. May success and happiness be your lot and may you never lose sight of those ideals which alone can lead to lasting joy.