Eau Claire High School - Beaver Tales Yearbook (Eau Claire, MI)

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Miss Georgiana Kortering who has been with us the last year of our High School life, we affectionately dedicate this number.

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EDITORIAL The ‘‘Maroon and White” appears for the second time in the history of the school. Education is the primal force that lies at the bottom of every venture and is an exponent of strength in the world today. ‘‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” and its truth is verified in every department of school life, for it is the very life of every life. There is where we first saw the light of the larger life; there is where our youthful days were spent. We can vividly recall the old school house with its ancient furniture, and the day when it met its fate and lay in ruins; but the spirit remains. In speaking of the past, there has always seemed to be a de- cided division between the faculty and the students and, for some unaccountable reason, the proper understanding did not exist be- tween these two factors. Now this is all changed. Co-opera- tion is the connecting and binding link requisite for our success in High School Life. The Class of ’19 is one of the largest that has ever graduated from Eau Claire. Though we are leaving now, we will enter much higher stages of securing “Ideas” and they are the giant power of business. But, wherever we may go, we will follow that successful motto: “Impossible is Un-American.” In every heart is a secret chamber where the walls are covered with the drapery and memorials of the past. Musing over the days of youth is a dangerous mental dissipation. So we have brought into this Annual photographs of every student and teach- er who have so willingly helped us through our battles and stood shoulder to shoulder through our thickest of school vicissitudes. So, in the future when we shall turn its pages, our memory will bring us back to old Eau Claire High. And so if we shall have been able to project into the future something which will reflect in our paths that spirit of buoyancy and good cheer which ever attended us here, this Annual will have served its purpose. EDWARD W. BAKEMAN, ’19

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 SUPERINTENDENT’S ADDRESS To the Seniors of igig: All nature proclaims a never ending suc- cession of generations, a countless repeti- tion of seasons. Vegetation blooms and spends its energy yearly in preparation for the seed and its all-important life possess- ing germ. Men construct, raze to earth, and reconstruct full in the faith of the frui- tion of their labors. Why all this outlay of time and pains? Surely, not for the mere appeasing of temporary needs and appetites, but in the hope cf a great tomorrow, the management of which must need be transmitted to other hands than those of the present laborers. In this hope fortunes are accumulated and fortunes invested; life- times are spent; the greatest feats in finance, science and mechan- ics are accomplished. No monument to these endeavors can be erected so adequate as an appreciative beneficiary, who will press on in the spirit of the age. To these ends schools are built, equipped, manned and operated. This community has offered you its best and in behalf of the school, I will say that it has no regrets from the way in which you have availed yourselves of its offer. But with its blessing you carry away an obligation. In you it must realize its greatest hopes. With you we have peopled the world of our ideal. This ideal is the ideal of the practical twentieth century. In it efficiency is the cardinal virtue. The world will little care who you are but it will demand most loudly “What can you do?” To meet this you will need a sound body, a clear, analytical mind and training to make them both obey your will. The twentieth century is now demanding honesty in a more unalloyed form than ever before. Your methods must bear no suspicion of duplicity nor cunning. The eighth and ninth commandments shall be en- forced vigorously and thoroughly. But above all, your doings must not only be many and accurately performed but they must be colored and tempered by that altruism of character that comes only from the spirit of the Man of Gallilee. R. A. HICKOK