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

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WESTERN WASHINGTON ACADEMY 1928 Class Night Program Processional.. Mildred Boyer Invocation .Prof. C. A. Shull Salutatory.Blanche Pitts Ladies’ Quartette.Selected Jeannette Goff, Pauline Drake, Genevieve Stabler, Doris Libby President’s Address.Merle Smith Class History.Bettie Carter, Delta Hulse Reading: In the Desert of Waiting”.Johnston Wilma Johnson Cornet Solo: Heimweh”.Jungmann Louis Gilbert Class Poem. Doris Libby Presentation of Gift. . Donald Crow Two-Piano Duet: Diana”.Selected Lorna Miller, Pauline Drake, Fern Zachrison, Bettie Carter Valedictory .Gertrude Manfull Class Song Entire Class Words by Genevieve Stabler Music by Bettie Carter Page Seventeen

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1928 THE MAGNET FERNE LaVERNE ZACHRISON Blaine High School ’24-’26 Golden Gate Academy ’26-’27 W. W. A. ’28 Winsome and. cheerful ever, Kind and thoughtful, helpful, clever — She’s a girl to love .’’ JOYCE EMELINE ANDREW Brownsville High School ’24-’25 W. W. A. ’26-’28 Sober, but not seriously sober; Quiet but never idle. GERALDINE F. THRELKELD Whatcom High School ’24-’25 W. W. A. ’27-’28 Modest, quiet, and of gentle grace. In the world of music she’ll find her place.’ VIVIAN VIOLET GILBERTS Duluth School ’24-’26 W. W. A. ’27-’28 Secy. Sabbath School ’28 Quietly noble, modestly mild. But we liked her best as she smiled. ESTHER BERTHA RAYNER W. W. A. ’24-’27-’28 Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.’’ Page Sixteen

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1928 THE MAGNET President ' s Address W ’E , the class of 1928, welcome you this evening. We are glad to have you with us upon this memorable night of our lives. Tonight we feel that our attainment would be an empty experience if it were not for the prayers of you that love us and have worked for us. We realize that, in a way, we are the recompense for your labors, sacrifices, prayers and tears. What we are is not so much because of our work as it is the direct result of your planning a way for us to advance. Western Washington Academy stands to us as God’s great crucible. It is the melting pot in which our lives are fused together in one great purpose, the salva¬ tion of souls. We come with our prides and our petty ambition, with half-formed ideas of the meaning of life and its ultimate goal, but in the fires of the melting pot the dross is burned away and the pure metal is molded to accomplish the work for which the Master designed it. The four years that we have been here have been happy ones. So long as time shall last, the friends that we have learned to love here will not be forgotten. We feel happy and sad tonight. Happy because our work here is completed and an¬ other mile post has been reached; sad because we are leaving this school and all for which it stands. Parents, words cannot express our appreciation to you this evening. All that we have attained thus far we owe to you. It is you who have encouraged us. It is you who have sacrificed for us. It is you who have held high ideals and aims before us. You have sent us to this school; now we have completed our course. Classmates, you have added much cheer and happiness to our stay here. Our school days here have been joy-ladened; together we have been striving for scholas¬ tic attainments. Now we are going to leave with you the words of the wise man— Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.” We have chosen our motto OTHERS” because we believe that our Divine Pattern had just such a motto as this. All truly great men have shown in their lives that the one great aim in life has been to help others. Lincoln is remembered as the one who freed the slaves—he worked for others. Washington fought for others. Moses helped the children of Israel out of Egypt—he prayed for others. Luther spent a lifetime spreading the Bible’s truth and light to others. Paul’s was a life of service—for others. Just so with us, we feel that a life in service for others is the life that counts. There is always something sad and solemn in partings. They remind us that this world is not for eternity but for a short time. We should not feel sad or downcast though for the future is radiant with His promises to keep and protect us. Tonight the class of ’28, is determined to live faithfully so that we may meet again in Heaven. God grant that we all may work and pray together that this third angel’s message may be speedily proclaimed to all the earth, and that in an unbroken number we may meet again in the Earth made new—not only the members of this class-but OTHERS.” Merle Smith Page Eighteen