Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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Perseverance Steer your course with steadfast sureness. Ever looking for the best; Keep the narrow path before you, With true courage meet each test. To accomplish without trying, Should not ever be your hope. For success takes every effort. Those there are whom you must cope. For each one a place is waiting. In this ivorld so harsh and wide; Failure, if it be accepted Means to be swept with the tide. ■ Choose a motto and so keep it That its guidance will be sure To ordain a certain future. Win the end by what is pure. —Norman Yerk.es, ’25.

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WEEKS, LAWRENCE have no secret of success but hard ivork. Business Manager, Hi-Life. ’24 Glee Club Football. ’22. ’23 Basketball. ’22-’23 Track. ’23-’24 WOLFER. MARJORIE “Our happy-go-lucky, innocent girl with smiling face and shining curls.’' WOOD.' CARRIE “Site's Oh! so quiet, and seems to shy. But wait till she graduates, then see her,, she'll fly.” Orchestra WITTKOPP. DOROTHY “Let thy striving be with loving, Let thy life consist in deeds.” WRIGHT. DORIS “A cheerful spirit sweetens toil.” 1 YINGER. DEMPSTER “A story goes further than an argument and a joke captures more than a speech.” Adv. and Sales Manager, Hi-Life Debate. ’24 Baseball. ’23-’24 Page Twenty

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As I sit here building castles in the air for the future, my mind wanders back to a morning in September in one thousand nine hundred and twenty, when a group of awkward children with a where-do-ws-go expression on their faces, wandered around dear old G. H. S. Yes. you're right: we were Freshmen. We soon grew accustomed to our places, however, and started on our career by having a regular class meeting and electing June Ranney as best suited to guide our wobbling footsteps for that year. Our first venture into the social world was the Freshman-Sophomore party in November, which left nothing to be desired1. The “kiddies. as our superior beings called us, impersonated the faculty, revealing many unknown things to them. Our baby year was completed by a picnic at Baldwin Lake when we all felt rather dignified to think we would soon be Sophomores. We started our second year by trying to prove to our insignificant friends ( ?) the Freshmen, that we were real Sophomores in spirit as well as in activities. That tear we chose Basil Byrne as our class president. The annual Freshman-Sophomore party in December certainly was a success from the beginning to the end. The Sophomores showed their generosity by allowing the Freshmen to exhibit their skill in the way of entertainment. The vaudeville that evening was greeted by shouts of laughter from everybody, as something new and original. Before school closed we proved to the Freshmen that they had at last won our staunch friendship and we buried the hatchet by having the usual Freshman-Sophomore picnic on June 10 at Osmun's pavilion. When we came back in September we were a little more serious and willing to work harder; for wasn't that goal just around the next bend for which we had been working since our kindergarten days? Perhaps we realized that the happiest four years of our lives were half gone and that we still had a lot to accomplish. For our president we elected Ole Olsen, along with other capable class officers. In order to start the social ball rolling, the Juniors and Seniors decided to have a masquerade in November. Did we have a good time? Ask anyone who was there and hear the enthusiastic answer. We continued on our way as Juniors, happy in doing the best work possible. We closed the school year by a Junior-Senior picnic at Baldwin Lake. We were all elated by the thought that we would soon be SENIORS. With a jerk my mind comes back to the present and I realize that we have at last entered that year of all years. That goal is at last in sight for which we have been striving so long and faithfully. We elected Lyle Price for our class president along with our old stand-by. Kathryn McIntyre, as secretary-treasurer, who has held the same office during the four years. In order to start this glorious vear successfully the Juniors and Seniors held their annual party in December. Perhaps the number was not as large as it should have been but what was lacking in quantity was made up in quality. Everyone is working hard on the Annual to make it a bigger and better success than ever before. Now. as we pass out of the doors of dear old G. II. S. for the last time, as nearly one thousand have passed before us. kt us take the advice of Philip Brooks, who said. The old year is fast slipping back behind us. We cannot stav it if we would. We must go on and leave our past. Let us go forth nobly-. Let us go as those whom greater thoughts and greater deeds await beyond. —Margaret King. '24. PiiKf Twenty-two