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

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 Mira Hoadley, as Juliet, Teaching social etiquette, Poses on the stage in friendly role With Juanita. As stenog Certainly does make you jog. She assists her father selling coal. Our class President, now hark! Is none else than Lois Clark, Why ’tis so we do not stop to ask. Mathematics suits her taste, Although Latin is no waste So she says as she stays at her task. Oh! I ’most forgot myself, Not because I’m such an elf, But because my memory often fails. I've been with them through four years. With their laughter and their tears, With the class of ’20 hoisted sails. Now you have our class complete, Nine young people, bright and neat. Ready for work along so many lines. If we have not judged aright, Do not tell us so tonight. We will heed you more some other time. —L. B. Kendall. —L. M. Clark. Twenty-one

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Class Poem When the Seniors of Eau Claire, Having climbed the winding stair. Bringing them to graduation day. Find that they must try to tell All about themselves, then, well— We can hardly know what we will say. Now a hist’ry can't portray Scenes from all the by gone days. Working, playing things that we’ve enjoyed. And a prophecy just bears Messages of future airs— Nothing that in school we have employed. So a poem seems to be Just the thing we’d like to see, Show the doings of our lucky nine. As chaperon Miss Kortering Thro’ two years of blundering Led us safely to the presenr time. Maid of France is Ruth LaPlant, She is good in speaker’s art, Representing us upon the stage. School work is her lesser fear. College is her aim next year. Where she’ll surely keep up with the age. When it comes to telling jokes (Real for sure ones, not just pokes. At mistakes that one of us has lent I. Then Ruth Merrill is right there, For in that none else compare. Certainly she's an excellent student. Arvon heads the library. Keeping others always busy. Also Business Manager is he. In athletics he must hold His own with several Juniors bold. To preserve our Senior dignity. Coral Miner on whose hands Much of the annual art depends. She can draw ’most anything she sees. In commercial she is true. And in Mathematics, too. She’s accomplished much on trying keys. Lucile Kelsey, with her laugh, Followed us straight up the path ’Til we’ve come to a branching of the way. She’s a language student good. Physics does not suit her mood. Teaching school will sometime bring her pay. Twenty

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Valedictory “ l'he Trail of Democracy’’ LOIS CLARK 1 hrough all history the one great ideal of the human race has been democracy. All people, regardless of nationality or place of abode, have worked toward this ideal— a democracy, not of government alone, but of social, intellectual and religious equality as well. Progress toward this ideal has been very unsteady, sometimes so slow that no marked advancement could be noticed for a century or more, and sometimes so rapid that every few years seemed to bring forth something previously thought im- possible. Nevertheless the principles and truths governing the thoughts and actions of men have been and are still being unearthed. And it seems always to be when they are most needed and the minds and hearts of men are best able to use them safely and intelligently that these principles are worked out. In earliest times tyranny ruled supreme. One individual, regardless of his char- acter and mental ability, has, by his tyrannical ability to make people fear him, or by his inheritance of a powerful position, held complete control over thousands or even millions of his fellow men, oftentimes many of whom have been his superiors, mentally, morally and physically. Then came a time when these men demanded rights of their own. Their demands seemed trivial enough and to keep his subjects from revolt many a ruler allowed them to settle questions of minor importance for themselves. But truly “Great oaks from little acorns grow,” for encouraged by these small successes, un- consciously and unnoticed by their rulers, they gradually developed greater ability, thereby showing themselves ready and capable of handling more important problems. Thus the whole system changed, so gradually that few noticed, but so decidedly that a jealous ruler, finally realizing that a change had taken place, and wishing to regain his former absolute authority, found himself facing a difficult task. In our own country it has been the same as elsewhere. History has proven that for us. The Separatists of England, having found religious freedom in America, were willing to endure great hardships rather than return to their former subjection to the church of England. The English government, having once allowed Virginia a General Assembly, found that it could not permanently take that right from her. In Massachusetts Bay colony, for a long time only stockholders in the Massachusetts Bay Company were allowed to attend General Court, the legislative body of the colony. But by the “Watertown Protest” and other remonstrances on the part of the people, all this was changed and representation given to all freeholders. Since then many equally important changes have come about, in the government of the world. In the past few centuries great progress has also been made along social and re- ligious lines. Not very many years ago people were compelled to worship after the manner prescribed by their rulers. They could not choose for themselves the church they would attend, but must obey the commands of whatever church was sanctioned by their king. Today everyone has the opportunity of making his own choice in his religion as in other things. Everyone that has read or heard anything about life in India knows that in that country the people are divided into castes, and that there is no intercourse whatever Twenty-two