Hemlock High School - Huskie Yearbook (Hemlock, MI)

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GENEVA CLAREY — “Jennie” “How pretty her blushing was And how she blushed again.” Secretary of ’17 class. Glee Club. “Dear Boy Graduates.” Classical Club. HELEN McBRATNIE — “Curly” “As prone to mischief As able to perform it.” “Dear Boy Graduates.” Deutscher Verein. Mirror Editor. Elite Story Editor. Glee Club. Treasurer of Classical Club. EDNA RAUCHOLZ — “Jim” “Life is a jest, and all things show it; 1 thot so once, and now I know it.” “Dear Boy Graduates.” Classical Club. Joke Editor of Elite. BENJAMIN McBRATNIE — “Ben” “Such high-bred manners, Such good-natured wit.” Baseball. “Dear Boy Graduates.” Glee Club. Editor-in-Chief of Elite. President of Deutscher Verein. Classical Club.

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EMMA DAY —“Emmy” “No melancholy exists in this tall, fair maiden.” President of ’17 class. “Dear Boy Graduates.” ETHLYN HALLER —“Ethel” “You’ll have to show me.” Glee Club. “Dear Boy Graduates.” Secretary of Literary Society. ELSIE VOORHEIS “Quiet and Sincere.” Class Editor of Elite. Editor of Mirror. Glee Club. Deutseher Verein. Classical Club. ERNA WARDIN “Of spirit still and quiet.” “Dear Boy Graduates.” Glee Club. Classical Club. Deutseher Verein. Treasurer of ’17 class.

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VALEDICTORY Friends, fellow students, teachers, and class of ’17, when I was asked to deliver the valedictory I thot of the verb “valeo,” in Latin, which means “farewell,” and “dictus” means “to speak,” therefore I reasoned it out that I must stand before you tonight in order to say farewell. Now the word farewell has a much deeper meaning than people usually think it has, when they say it. It not only means for us to say good-bye to our classmates, to our fellow stu- dents, and our teachers, but also to the many habits we have formed in past years. We are now standing at the entrance of a new world. For years we have been fitting ourselves to enter upon this new exist- ence. The lessons which our High School has taught to us are but solutions of problems which our future will present. We have studied life in all its various forms, yet our knowledge is but passive. We are about to enter into a great hurrying world and study life in action. The swift currents of affairs will sweep us onward into new scenes and new associations. We will now act quite independent of one another, and it is this independent action that gives force its worth. This is but a glimpse of the great universe before us. It is really life in action. It is man striving to assert his needs. Every individual who has lived or died has given some new impulses to humanity, and it is by these impulses that we are drawn into active life. As we bid farewell to the old familiar scenes which are en- closed by our narrow horizon and enter upon a broadened field of action, we are attended by a multitude of lofty spirits, these are memories of our school days. Pictures are vividly brought before us that have grown dear to us thro associations. They show us the long and hard struggles of our short journey. Often our way seemed darkened and our steps faltered, but we were cheered and upheld and directed upward and onward by those who have so kindly taken the responsibilities upon themselves of guiding and instructing us. At last our journey draws to a close, the summits of our early endeavors are reached but are still afar off, calling us into new and large fields of action. But before we leave the old life, with all its dear scenes and associations, we pause a few moments to express our thanks and to say farewell.