Auburn Adventist Academy - Rainier Vista Yearbook (Auburn, WA)

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(Elass program Motto “Simplicity, Sincerity, and Service” Colors Nile Green and Salmon Pink Flower Sunburst Roses Aim “To Be Prepared” March Miss Virginia Romaine Invocation Prof. Hamilton Salutatorian ' s Address Edna Boddy Piano Solo Mae Purdy President ' s Address George Johnston Class Poem Marguerite Andrus Reading Lillian Drake Appreciation of Mother Esther Hanley Appreciation of Father Irene Dougan Priscilla Batchelder Cathryn Matthews ..Donald Green Curtis Hanna Margie Heaton Violin Solo Part I Class History Part II Class History Part III Class History Class Prophecy Quartet Verna Horsman, Edna Boddy Eugene Joergenson, Byron McKibben Class Will Eugene Joergenson Gift Jack Nelson Appreciation of the Schools . Dorothea Bemis Valedictory Vivian Nelson Class Song Class Seventeen

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Jack N. Nelson ' 23-’24—President of Junior Class. Circulation Manager of Visual. “You hear that boy laughing? You think he’s all fun; But the angels laugh, too, At the good he has done.” Cathryn Matthews Class Treasurer “And a little girl once kept so still, That she heard a fly on the window sill Whisper and say to a lady bird. She’s the stillest child I ever heard.” Dorothea Bemis Asst. Photo Editor of The Rainier- echo. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” Vivian Nelson Valedictorian ’24-’25—Class Poet. Asst. Editor of The Rainier- echo. Ex-Secretary of Sabbath School. “The mildest manners and the gentlest heart.” Eugene J. Joergenson ’23-’24—Vice-President of Junior Class. irman of Cultural Com¬ mittee. - 25—Ex-President of Students’ Association. princlier looking man never stept through a prince’s hall.” Subject to one credit. A a { (X. £4

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IJrcsiiUntt’s Ahhrcss Dear Parents, Board Members, Faculty, Fellow Students, and Friends: We, the class of 1925, welcome you this evening. We are glad to have you with us upon this memorable night of our lives. We are glad, too, that our four years of academic work has been completed, yet sadness accompanies our joys. We feel that we have successfully taken our first step in the preparation for life’s great work. As we view our lives at this place and behold the vast store of knowledge before us. we are impelled to give voice to the sentiments of the great scientist, Newton, who at the close of his life said that he seemed as a child on the o cean’s shore picking up a few pebbles while the great ocean of knowledge lay rolling before him. The years we have spent at W. W. A. have given us a new vision of life. Our thoughts are very well expressed in the words of Longfellow, “Life is real, life is earnest and the grave is not its goal.’’ To the Christian these words hold a deep significance, for life is a more vivid reality when Christ is brought into partnership. As one writer has well said, “Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it ascends toward heaven.’’ So we, the class of ’25, want our lives to freshen the lives of others. There is a definite object for which we are working. Our aims and ambitions do not fade into a mirage at the touch of death’s cold hand. Why? Because we are building for Eternity. We believe, as e xpressed by our motto, that “Simplicity. Sincerity and Service’’ are three essential attributes to the character of one who is truly successful in life. Let me call your attention for a moment to the full significance of these words: “Simplicity, Sincerity, and Service.’’ Someone has said, “The wisest man could ask no more of Fate than to be simple, modest, manly, and true.’’ Simplicity is the sure mark of real character. And what is character, you say? “Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity or as a clouded Eighteen