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

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 i3g==3MAROON and white Valedictory We students who stand tonight between a happy past and an unknown future should not think of this graduation as being the end but the commencement of our lives. Our future stands out l efore us as a vast area of darkness; and although we have not the genius to foresee what it will be, we do know that a large measure of it dej lends on the foundation we have built for ourselves in our High School years. This thought is true not only for one hut true for all. We have all finished the course that has been given us, and are ready to start together for a step forward along the pathway of life. So far we have come together, hand in hand, and we have l)een looking for- ward to this time of graduating as a glad one, forgetting that it was going to mean I a time of parting. Now we are suddenly forced to remember this feature, and in spite of our triumph we are sad. One thought we have for consolation is that we have reached the successful end of our four years by living up to our class motto, “United We Conquer.” In these days of struggle and toil, of success and failure, of competition and strife, it is well for young people to have good companions they can work with on a task and come out conquerors in the end. So it has been with our class. Working and striving along together, we have at last reached our goal. But now that we have gained some of the good things of life, should we appropriate them all to our- selves or should we generously and wisely help those who are less fortunate? Should not our lives lie centered now in a greater and a more far reaching end than self elevation? This is a question that rests with us all tonight as we are aliout to step forth into the arena of the world’s progress to make a place for our- selves among our fellow-men. Dear friends, we who are passing out of High School life into more active citizenship, feel that we have a place in national life. We feel that each one of us has a work to do in helping our country become 1 letter and nobler. We know that we alone cannot make the world go right, but each one of us shall endeavor to “do iwith cheerful heart the work that God appoints.” We expect great things of our- selves and hope that you too feel our possibilities—and will not lie disappointed. To our parents, friends, and the Board of Education, we. the class of '30. extend our thanks for the privileges and possibilities that have lieen afforded to give us our training and education. We sincerely hope that in the years to come we may prove to you that your ambition to turn us out to the world as real men and women has not been in vain. We also wish to show our gratitude to our teachers who have untiringly led us through our past four years of training. We realize that they have put forth every effort within their power to fit us for our future lives. 1C lassmates, let us resolve that we shall make of ourselves such men and wo- men in the world that our high school shall lie glad to claim us as its own. Let us, as we separate, go forth with the determination that we will succeed. Let us show the world, as we step out into its field of endeavor, that we are students worthy to lie called Americans. As we bid each other farewell, let us remember the words of Emerson: Keep your eyes on the goal, lad. Never despair or drop; Be sure that your path leads upward; There is always room at the top. Harriett Hogue 1,CZ TJGI----IEt===IEr- • 3EI IBcftofr1930$» El—--glEr ■ irr = n=—ir r [Page Twenty-threeJ

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. Class Will Ye, the Class of 1930, in seventeen separate and distinct parts, lieing altout to pass out of this sphere of education, in full possession of crammed minds and over-worked memories, do publish this last will and testament, hereby making void all wills heretofore made. We do therefore dispose of the same said estate in the following manner: Article: To our friends, faculty and fellow students, we bestow our sincere approval, admiration, gratitude, and appreciation for their unsurpassed efforts in our cause. Article: We also bequeath to Eau Claire High School as a whole, all of the varied talents of our several memljers. These are to become the possessions of' the school on condition that they shall ever l e cherished and constantly used. To Mr. Taft, our Superintendent, teacher, friend and advisor, the whole- hearted friendship and gratitude of the Class of 1930. To Mr. Lee, we grant the remaining ink of our fountain pens. To Mr. Jerome. Geneva Bowers leaves her wooden horse??????? To Harold Frost. Lewis Rogers leaves his desire to hear and see everything. To Fames Bookwalter, Vere Smallidge leaves his much treasured volume on “How to Catch a Mosquito in the Moonlight.” To Irving Paustain, Harriet Hogue leaves her ability as Art Editor. (Pro- vided he doesn’t ruin Raphael’s reputation.) To Bob Birkholm. Donald Trowbridge wills his “crowning glory.” To Helen Sommers, Ruth Taylor wills some! of her pep. To Bernard Teichman, we will the position as center on the basketball team held now by various members of the Senior Class. To Helen Bishop, we will the singular possession of Harold Rose. To Caroline Classman, Elizabeth Burton leaves her position as Snapshot Editor. To Harry Lutz, Kenneth Briney leaves his baby carriage. To Irene Puterbaugh, Jane Mosher leaves her non-chalance towards the opposite sex. To Lois Ferguson, Gertrude Pokorny leaves her personal recipe on “How to Keep a Cool Head.” To Donald Clup]x-r and Kendall Ferguson, we leave the remaining gas from our cars after the High School picnic. To Margaret Puterbaugh. Margaret Schram leaves the right to make sugges- tions. and an alarm clock for Easter morning. To Tom Ferry. Wesley Grant leaves the right to print signs, etc. (for the E. C. H. S. next year.) To the Junior girls. Berneice Mitchell leaves a permanent curl, to save hair curling expenses in the future years. To Mitchell Booth. Robert Rose leaves his natural sense of modestv which we hope will be used. To Ix-e Shindeldecker. Alfons wills his ability to “play innocent.” Signed, sealed and published by the above named class of 1930, as and for their last will and testament in the presence of us. who have heretofore subscribed our names and witnesses, in the presence of the said testators and of each other. Sifjiu'd. Senior Class of 1930 Witness: Margaret Schram R. A. Taylor 1-ni---—i i —J3I — J3E (Haec Twenty-two!

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33C aMAROON ,ND WHITE 33P Salutatory “Come what come may. time and the hour run through the roughest day, and so the hour toward which we as a class have been looking since our first days at the Eau Claire High School has arrived. Our first thoughts are of gratitude to you who have made possible our days here together and helped us to overcome har- riers which seemed to bar our way. We can liest express our gratitude with the one word. “Welcome, which, no matter how interpreted, means we are glad that you are here. Tonight as we look ahead, we are overcome with a sense of dread, a dread of the future. ( ur days si ent here together have lieen filled with happy moments, and we have formed friendships, many of which we shall continue through life. But what does the future hold for us? We all of us have plans which we hope to carry out. but each is like a traveller who has crossed the foothills and reached the foot of a mountain with roads leading in all directions. His journey has l een smooth with very few bogs, from which he was quickly and readily assisted, along the way. Xow he has reached a cross-road and the road he chooses to continue his journey shall determine his destination. So with us. we have reached a crossroad at the foot of a mountain and the road we take will determine whether our plans are to lie fulfilled or not. There are roads leading up which are rough and filled with obstacles to hinder our progress. Other roads are much smoother and have very few obstacles to hinder us. Few of us will take the rough, inaccessible roads. Many would rather take a road leading off to one side, which is much smoother, and hope that it will lead upward farther on the way. These crossroads with many roads leading away are deceiving. They show the roads for short distances; after these distances are travelled, the hard and rough road becomes barely passable. The education we received at Eau Claire High School will greatly aid us in choosing the right road, and with your assistance we hope to become worthy of the care ar.d efforts you bestowed upon us during our school career. We have al- ways looked toward this event as a destination, but we find it to be but a journey. We hope that you welcome us among you on this journey, our entrance into the world of usefulness. Again, let me welcome you to this, our graduation from Eau Claire High School. Alfons Wierzbolowicz Jav: Has anyone commented on the way you drive? Vere: Yes, one fellow made a brief re- mark-twenty dollars and costs? 7ir--...-T-Tv =-,-ar==va J 930 -fi ifi ' ■--lirt=iF:r==ar:t [Page Twenty-four]