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

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GOING TO COLLEGE The problem of whether or not to go to college is one which confronts every student during his years in high school. It really should not be a problem to most pupils. The question should be: “Where Shall I go to College?” When you realize that only about one per cent of the people in our country have graduated from college and that out of that group come about ninety per cent of the men who are mentioned in “Who’s Who,” it can readily be seen that a college education is a great help in making for success. Beside the purely monetary viewpoint, there are other, and in my opinion, much more important reasons for going to college. One of the best of these is the ability to live more completely. Under this head comes the ability to enjoy life more and to render a greater service in the community of which you are a part. Friendships formed in college are the most lasting of all and surely the ones that tend to inspire one most. These college friendships are the friendships of people with common interests in life and common knowledge. Probably all of us have had friends who no longer seem to mean anything to us, largely because they are not interested in the things in which we are interested. College friendships are not of this type. They are between kindred spirits and formed in maturity. The fund of information that one accumulates at college helps one to enjoy his reading more. Many references in every day reading are “Greek” to the uneducated. Not so to the well-developed college man or woman. Every phrase has a wealth of meaning and association connected with it that opens worlds to the imagination of the educated man. From the standpoint of service to our fellow men, a college education is a great help. In every community the college trained people are the leaders. It is to them that the rank and file of people turn for help and counsel and it is a pleasure to be able to give that help. The influence of the well trained college man or woman in any community is great. It is your privilege to become one of these people with wide influence everywhere. If you want to have the greatest opportunity to become successful; if you want to be able to enjoy the best of everything; or if you wish to be of the most service in the world, go to college. F. G. Averill. JUST A CALLER There’s many a real story connected with G. H. S. Once in a while a big man raps at the door of the English Room. This happened the other day. The corridor was a bit shadowy, and the man clad in the fine products of a city tailor, and carrying a hat of the very latest style, looked a bit of a stranger; but there was the old familiar smile which said, “I once belonged to G. H. S.” Yes, in spite of all the signs of prosperity, here was Leroy Jorgensen, 1922, fresh from Chicago. He had just blown in to say that his respect for the comma had risen to the zenith. This is what he said: “1 work in a Railroad Transportation Building in Chicago, on the twenty-first floor. There are more than five thousand people working there every day. In one room there is a long, oval table where men sit working all day to see that no little fiendish comma cheats the railroad company out of thousands of dollars. Perhaps you won’t believe it, but each of those fellows gets $9,500 a year for his work.” “Nuf sed,” brethren and sisters. H. E. M. Page Twenty-seven

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To become a sailor and go fishin’. Frank LeValley has become a traffic cop, To good looking girls his signals say “Stop.” In the side shows at the county fair Vandel Nielsen takes tickets there. Eugene McDonald has lived up to his boast, And now is a factor in a trading post. A missionary traveling a distant sea We recognize as demure Dorotha Fea. Our dear Charlie Houle chose a flighty career, As a Human Fly he stands on one ear. Ruth Schermerhorn who vamped them all in her days Is now but an old maid, having changed her ways. Kendall Sagendorf set out for Sandwich Isles, Discovered “hot dogs,” and made money in piles. Mabel Lohr by a streak of good fate, Inherited a turkey farm in New York State. Maryon Kern to African men of all hues Is making her fortune selling snow-shoes. Minnie Christiansen sailed to the stars And vamped all the men on Venus and Mars. Mildred Jensen whom we all hold in esteem Is posing for “Ads” for Recreation Ice Cream. The first woman representative from our state Is Katherine Chase, so calm and sedate. Rehold Howard Luscombe as a great judge Whose decisions when rendered no one can budge. We hear Nancy Lucas, the hater of man, An anti-man league successfully ran, In a circus owned by friend Leland Mote Robert Lincoln walks the tight rope. While “Cliff” McFarland as leading clown, Rivals Fred Stone in world renown. Richard Potter deserved great praise For, as a life guard, many lives he saves. “Jo” Christensen, first in bargain counter rushes, Is making her roll now selling tooth brushes. Isabel Svendsen writes news for the Grand Rapids Press. Jean VanAllen aids waifs who are in distress. Nels Sorensen, who was a great man destined to be, Is a traveling salesman for the B. V. I). As a “got-get-him,” Madeline Siefried is effective; She is now the greatest woman detective. Rertha Wood in Grand Opera, it is said, Has a voice that would cheer up even the dead, Elma Peck who recently took a trip Came back on a matrimonial ship. As private stenographer to the Sec. of State Alice Lewis meets a novel fate. Now the prophecies you see I’ve made here About the good old class of this year They’re all in fun from the start; Now with your permission I will depart. “Bay” Byrne, ’25. Page Twenty-six

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