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

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Salutatory EAR PARENTS, Members of the Board, Teachers, Fellow Students, and Friends: In behalf of the class of 1926, it is my privilege to extend a cordial welcome to you this evening. We feel happy and honored by your presence here, for it indicates to us your interest in our progress and welfare. As we appear before you tonight, our hearts are filled with conflicting emotions. Perhap s the most prominent of these is joy—joy because we feel that we have reached another mile-post in our education. In our childhood we doubtless looked forward to this as the supreme attainment to be reached, but now we see that in reality it is only a commencement. Although we may have completed the foundation of our educa¬ tional structure, we are determined to attain greater heights,—to keep on climbing, as our motto says. Our education began at home with our parents as our first teachers. Therefore we feel a special sense of indebtedness toward them tonight for the splendid opportunities they have placed within our reach. Whatever victories we have gained spiritually, and whatever progress we have made intellectually, for these, to you, dear parents, we owe a large debt of gratitude. We want you to know that your unselfish¬ ness and sacrifice are appreciated. We can think of only one way in which to repay you for this kindness, and that is to dedicate our lives to the Master’s service, which we know is your ideal and your constant prayer for us. Members of the Board, we wish to express our appreciation to you who have rendered such excellent service for our school, and for your wise choice in selecting such faithful, consecrated teachers on our faculty. We feel deeply indebted to you, dear teachers, for your encouragement. In all of our difficulties and perplexities you were ever ready to lend us a helping hand. Truly we have learned that the great¬ est influence in school life is that exerted by the right kind of teachers. Your Christian association and in¬ spiration have helped us much, and in the future its memory will continue to be a light and a guide to us. Fellow students, we have been glad for the priv¬ ilege of associating with Christian friends, with whom we may share our secrets and ambitions and ideals. It exerts a molding influence on every life to form friendships with other young people whose highest purpose in life is to carry this Third Angel’s Message to all the world in this generation. And we wish to thank you for the encouragement that you have been to us. And in the years to come, may it be said of the class of 1926 that we have been true to the principles that we have learned at Western Wash¬ ington Academy, and to the cause which it represents. —Ethel Walker , ’26. page twenty-eight

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Juniors The Class of ’27 are Juniors, this year. Seventy- five per cent of the class are boys and twenty-five per cent girls. This is rather unusual in a school where there are more girls than boys. This fact prob¬ ably accounts for the great amount of talent centered in the class. However, the presidential chair is oc¬ cupied by a girl, Fern Horsman, and the secretary is also a girl. That you may realize more fully how well quali¬ fied this class is to step into the vacated place of our “Noble Seniors,” I will enumerate some of our talents. Several of our number are earning their own ex¬ penses through school. Some of us are Sabbatl; School teachers in the Senior division. The leader of the Missionary Volunteer Society is a Junior. The speediest typist among the students is our president. Besides having the school cartoonist and the school saxaphonist in our class, the one who teaches the Practical Nursing class when Mr. Joers is away, and one of the two who take charge in the kitchen in the absence of Mr. Whitehouse, are all Juniors. The leaders of the two sides in the recent Rainier- echo campaign, and their assistants, were chosen from the Class of ’27. Those who assist our hard-working teachers in the correcting of General History, Spanish, (Continued on page 60.) page thirty