Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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12 T H E K Y O T E GLASS DAY, 1908 SALUTATORY ADD HESS % Fellow Students and Classmates: Perhaps you have heard great speeches. Perhaps poor ones. It remains to be seen whether mine is great or poor. You are to lx my judges. My speech is the first and the shortest, not that I am the first in my class,—nor am I the shortest. My classmates like to talk so well and have so much to say that it would be eminently improper for me, being first on the program, to speak long. It is difficult for me to express my feelings. Within a few short hours our days here as students of the Hillings High will be ended. Tomorrow we shall receive our diplomas—Dlplomm—Perhaps that does not signify much to all of you but it does to us, the class of '08. We have not earned them by play, al- though we have spent many a happy hour within these four walls. At this time our lives separate. We go forth together but perhaps some of us shall never meet again. We all have ambitions and ideals or we would not be here now. We have all built air-castles: no doubt many of these will be shattered but where there is youth there is always hope. Oh! wise was he who placed that small treasure in Pandora's box. Our ambitions point in different di- rections. In following them we shall drift apart like the seeds of the earthly plants that are blown about by sweeping winds. Some of us will succeed and may none fail. We leave a small token of remembrance not that we shall be remembered by the Hillings High as individuals but that it may remember that there was a Senior class of ’08. May we Seniors in after life when we are weighed down with cares, our faces filled with wrinkles and our heads covered with gray hair, pause at times in the hurry of our busy lives and dwell upon the school days of the Hillings High— Upon the four years' lessons, Upon each well-worn book, Upon the many scoldings That so gracefully we took! Upon basketball and foot'ball games Which we beheld with joy— Upon the teams whose play brought cheers From every girl and boy. Upon the Music period And the many songs we’ve sung Upon our Inward quakings When the bell for class has rung. Upon the many teachers. Kind in every way, Who aided in our studies, And even in our play. And now in future struggles I fear we’ll oft confess That life would be far pleasanter Were'we back In B. H. S. —Flossie Parkinson, 08.

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Sbls annual Is BcDlcatcb to (Sconjc Ebwarb Snell Hy faithful, tireless energy, a name For our respected High School he has won. He led us on to fast approaching fame, And now his work with us is almost done. Hut the bright impress stamped on every mind Left by a well-remembered leader’s toil (an hardly fail to bear fruit of a kind Or fructify on such receptive soil. And we for whom lie planned will not forget That though he treads another walk in life He holds some thought for our advancement yet A hope that we may conquer in the strife. And he may be assured that in his call, A way that may be interspersed with showers, The l est success is wished him by us all As truly as he ever hoped for ours.

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THE KYOTE 13 PRESIDEXT'S J I)DRESS Fellow Students, Friends, and Patrons of the Billings High School: As President of the class of 1008, I extend to each and every one of you a most hearty welcome. We are glad to see so many here to witness this faithful frag- ment of '08 pay a last tribute to these lie loved walls. We can not hope in the space of a few hours to tell you what these last four years have meant to us. I)o not expect it of ns. Those of you present who have been through it all: through the struggles, the good times, the days of hcaped-up lessons, the days of care-free picnics; through all the ups and downs, and especially those of of Senior year—-will, I am sure, have hut to call upon memory to appreciate our feelings and what lies behind them. To those of you whose Class I)av is in the future, I can only say, “May you come to it safely and with as much joy bv the way as is compatible with the gaining of knowledge and the ideals your instructors hold up to you.” Is the high school not like a large family? Do we not as brothers and sisters, 1909, 1910, 1911, toil along shoulder to shoulder? But all families are eventually separated and it is time for 1908 to make a final bow. It is hard to realize that we must leave. We have gone almost unheedingly along an appointed path and now we must enter upon some road of our own choosing. Today, Alumni, we bring to you not a large band but one full of an energy and perseverance sufficient to make up for any lack in mere numbers. This you cannot help but appreciate when you have listened to my classmates, for whom I now make room. Once more—a most hearty welcome! —Will McKenzie. '08. CLASS HISTORY OF “IMS'' We meet today to celebrate the end of school days and to hail the begin- ning of serious life. We naturally have more interest for the future than fur the past, yet it would never do for the brilliant achievements of the class of “1008 to go unrecorded. M'is a difficult task under any circumstances, to write a class history, hut when one attempts to do justice to such an extraordinary class as “1908'’ one approaches the subject with fear and trembling. At first it might seem strange to some that I, who only became a niembei of the class the last semester, should lx; chosen “Class Historian,'9 hut when you consider the matter, I am sure you will agree it is not odd but right, for me to chronicle the deeds of “1908. Is it not a fact that many of the great histories are written, not by the men who lived in the period described, but by men who lived long ages after? Is not John Fiske's history of New England far more widely read than that of W illiam Bradford? Seldom is the historian person- ally acquainted with the men lie describes, nor is he a participant in the events he pictures hut he draws his knowledge from research, based upon study, ma- terial relics, and observations. Is it not likewise then fitting, that the history of 1908' should lie written by an observer rather than a participant? It was in the twentieth century, fourth year, during the second year of the