Grosse Pointe University School - Pericon Yearbook (Grosse Pointe, MI)

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tat m tstu S um gt am wrrtrng thrs on the afternoon of February 12th One hundred and thrrty srx years ago today Abraham Llncoln was born Four months from tomorrow evenrng you senlors wlll recelve your drplornas at the Grosse Pornte lVlemor1al Church When Lmcoln at frfty years of age was nom1nated for the Presrdency of the Uruted States on the Republrcan tlcket he was asked by the publlcrsts of those days for an account ot the early years of h1s lrfe He replred What folly to try to make anyth1ng out of me or my early hte It IS all summed up rn a srngle sentence that sentence you w1ll frnd rn Gray s Elegy The short and srrnple annals of the poor Thats my hte and thats all you or anyone else can make out of rt Thlnk of the contrast between the srmple surroundrngs of Abraham Lrncolns brrthplace hrs lack of opportunrtles for educatron hrs only books the B1ble and Shakespeare read by the tlrckerrng hght of a wood frre and our own abundant often luxurrous homes and our boundless opportunrtres for development Do not forget that For every pnvrlege you possess or have possessed you have an addrtronal respons1b1l1ty Th1s country cannot exrst half slave and half free sard Abraham Lrncoln Now we are learmng that thrs world cannot eX1Sl halt slave and half free Pol1t1cally econom1cally spmtually we cannot long endure rf we have slavery 1n one half of the globe even though freedom may apparently rergn elsewhere It IS my s1ncere hope that these two schools have led you toward thrs rdeal so that you may go forth consctous not only of your responsrbrlrtres to your fellow countrymen and women but also fully aware of those brndmg oblrga t1ons to th1s One World of whrch rt rs your tate to be a mrnute part llr l N A fWl 'X ' , , . , - . e , , , . , . , , , .

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ff- 1 iv'- gm LAMBERT F WHETSTONE Headmaster DETROIT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL GROSSE POINTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL I N 1

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UN OL ILIHICCS CARL BREER SIMON D DEN UYL RAYMOND K DYKEMA JOHN B FORD JR WENDELL C GODDARD C HENRY HABERKORN JR CHARLES H HODGES ARTHUR B MQGRAW MD HUGH MCMILLAN JOHN G MATEER MD KENNETH L MOORE STEPHEN T STACKPOLE CLEVELAND THURBER WILLIAM F TORREY JAMES B WEBBER JR EDWARD P WRIGHT CEORCE R PINK HALDEMAN FINNIE HENRY FORD II WILLIAM K MLJIR HENRY L NEWNAN H LYNN PIERSON OSSEI POINTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL DETROIT IVERSITY SCHOOL Dum 0 f V IIT ,JR.A