Clinton High School - Clintonia Yearbook (Clinton, IL)

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Class 2 as program CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM MAY 29, 1918—2 o’clock Assembly. Cornet Solo, My Illinois” ...............Gordon Hull Salutatory ..............................Mareece Miller Piano Duct .............Beatrice Fisher andHelcn Benson Flay.......................“C. H. S. Alumni Home, 1950.” Mareece Miller Fay Lane Louise Davis Beatrice Fisher Cecil Vilcs William Draper Bennie Sessions Veta Todd Wilfred Brown Helen Phillips Clvde Bowers Ruth Phares Hnnouncement Presentation Speech .......................... Belle Kirby Senior Charge ....................................... Wiliam ISharkcy junior Response............................... Mabel Brown Valedictory ................................... Ruth Griffin Class Song ................................. Members of Class “Planting of the Ivy”...................... Wilfred Brown ‘ Old C. IT. S.” SENIOR CLASS SONG When high school days have passed away And we no longer here may stay, Our hearts will beat true, Old High, just for you. We’ll raise our voices loud and clear To sing a song of hearty cheer And love you as we used to do. Chorus Sen-iors, Scn-iors, We are the jolly Sen-iors. Great-est class of all the Gold-cn West. Alma Ma-ter nev-er will have one great-cr 10-18—Loved the best. PRESENTATION SPEECH (Belle Kirby) Friends of the Senior Class: This is an extraordinary year with extraordinary requirements of all of us. Many of the usual customs arc given up entirely or changed to fit the times. And so is the case with us. The Seniors felt that the money resulting from the Class play would be used to a better advantage and perhaps benefit more people if given to the Red Cross. We have given the money to that organization, that noble emblem of human mercy and sympathy, whose symbol is revered wherever it floats. In this great conflict bet wen Democracy and Autocracy it floats fearlessly in the shell-torn trenches, and breathes a breath of hope to the weary men of France, and Belgium. It stands for everything that is noble and sacred to true American hearts. We are leaving, as a record of our gift, this certificate. This will serve in after years to show that we were not neglcct-of our Alma Mater we have in our four years here learned so much to love. It is our wish that you rccongizc in our gift, not to the school, but to the Red Cross, an earnest desire to do the best it is in our power, as a class leaving this high school under the present conditions, to do. PAGE FIFTEEN

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CLASS DAY PAGE FOURTEEN

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5alutor (MAREECE MILLER) I am happy to greet so many this afternoon on behalf of my class. It is indeed a joyful time for us when we realize that we have so many appreciative friends. It is a time of gladness, yet a deeper and more serious thought creeps into it. For nearly fifty years commencements have been observed by the Clinton High School but it seems that this one is more significant than previous ones. To-day is a day of doing things. Every day we are measured by the standard of what we can do. Our own state, this year enjoying her hundredth anniversary, and our own country, participating in the world’s greatest war, is depending more and more upon the young people of the nation. Never before has there been such a demand for trained laborers. Upon the young people of the nation depends the future welfare of the United Stats. We who are in school will be the future leaders. We must keep up our standards and in such a crisis should even raise them. The world demands trained workers and so our schools arc advancing the idea of actual training with the rest of the curriculum. We no longer journey through our school life in a hit-or-miss fashion but we plan our destination and strive to reach that goal. Four years wc have worked to this end, commencement, not the various formalities alone but the true meaning of the completion of our work here, which is that we are prepared to help our nation in her time of need. We are now leaving to assume further duties for which we are prepared, because we know that the best way to accomplish things is to, “Learn to do by doing. Now my friends, again I wish, in the name of the 1918, centennial class of the Clinton High School, to welcome you. PAGE SIXTEEN