Cincinnati High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Cincinnati, AR)

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Mary jane Slnlth Class Secretary jane was bornjannary 26, 1930, at Cincinnati, Arkansas. She entered grade school at Blue jacket, Okla., in 1935, and later removed to Cin- cinnati in 1938, where she in now a senior in the Cincinnati High School. She is an active xnemhor - inthe 4-H Club and has served as an officer for thelast four years. jane is secretary of the senior class, and valedictorian in the dass of tnrieeen. Throughout msn school she has been a leading paly- er in our basketball team. She is very popular and we are sure she lege which she is planning to enter after her graduation here. Her Valedictory The time has conme for us, the graduating class of 1947, of the Cincinnati School, to facethe fact that we are going on, and leaving for all tirne these fam- iliar halls, these teachers whom we have learned to love, and our own classmen companions whom we will never again be associated in just the same way. The thought of parting, brings us feelings of sadness and gladness. We are sad when we remeniber that this chapter in Life's Book is ended and we are turn- ing our faces toward new scenes and new associations. We shall always hold in rnind tenderly and gratefully all these years have meant to us, all they have brought us, all they have taught us. Never can we get away from the influence of these years, and in saying farewell to you, our instruc- tors and leaders, we say it with deep gratitude and stirring emotion. We hope that we shall go forth and do you honor inthe years to come. We hope that you will never have reason to he disappointed inthe course wefollow nor the results we gain. We desire earnestly to make use of what you have done for us as a foundation for the building of lives and service of which you, our instructors, will indeed be proud. We know your interest will follow us wherever we go. We thank you for all you have done for us. We thank you for all you have tried to do, and as we move up and the next class inline takes our palces, we would bespeak from them cordial, con- scientious and continued co-oper ation on their part, for all you, will, we know so willingly do for thern. As we say good-bye mists come to our eyes, and we are not ashamed of the mist- iness, nor the emotion it betrays. We are going on. We would not stay--nor would you have us, and yet the old tiesypull. We do not want to break thern, but rather to lengthen and strengthen thenx instead. The very fact that we are going on speaks eloquently of how well you, our teachers, have done your work and how fine has been the spirit of this school. It gives as joy that we have succeeded incompleting the course of study prescribed for us here, and that we are ready for the nextstep of our journey up the heights of knowledge. We are glad that we are going forward, for we know that we must make room for those who come after ns. We are glad that further privileges await us. We are glad that we have measured up, in some degree at least, to the expectation and hopes of our parexds who have coveted the best for us, and been ready to sacrifice countless times that we, the childrm of their love and ' care, might enter the Promised Land. We thank you for the visions you have given us of what life may be made to meaf You may think that we, in our youth, have taken such as our due and taken it thought- lessly all too often, but in this hour we would assure you that the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts, and that all too frequently what is in our hearts coznes not to our lips to find expression in words. Once more we are glad, oh, so glad, that we can take the memory of these years with us 1' Like seeds which will grow and come into gorgeous and fruitful maturity in time to come. In bidding you farewell we, the Class of 194-7, of this dear old school, d.o it with a tear, a sigh, and smile. will be a success in Springfield Col-