Kingsford High School - Kingsfordian Yearbook (Kingsford, MI)

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Friends, as president of the class of 1929 I now take this oppor- tunity to express our thanks to each and every one of you for your in- terest in our class activities, which you have shown by your presence here tonight. I also wish to thank each of you for the part you have played in securing a high school education for us. For many years our parents have been planning for and looking forward to this day. It has been their steadfast purpose to give their boy or their girl a high school education. We honor our fathers and mothers for the sacrifices they have made to keep us in schoolg we thank 'them for the wonderful start in life which they have secured for us, and we promise them that tomorrow, when we enter the great world of indus- try, we will do our best to succeed, if only for their sakes. For the past four years our superintendent, our principal, and our teachers have been guiding us towards this goal. They have spent many extra hours helping us in our studies and in our class activities. For this we shall forever be indebted to them, and we shall miss 'them a great deal after we have left Kingsford. We hope that they will forget the trouble we have caused them and remember only the pleasant 'times we have spent with them. We also Wish to thank the people of Brei- tung Township and the school board for this splendid school building and other facilities for learning. Many are the friends we have made here and many are the good times we have had here, but all these pleasant things must soon become a part of the past. It is with feelings of sorrow and hope that we must bid good-bye to you, to Kingsford High, and to each other. We leave our Alma Mater, Kingsford with a feeling of sorrow and regret, because we realize that we have met our best friends liereg we have spent our most pleasant and carefree days here. We leave Kingsford with a feel- ing of hope because we are already anticipating those opportunities which await us in the world of industry-opportunities for us to make good and to justify your efforts in making capable American Citizens out of us. We are hoping that we may always live up to our motto, Build for Character and not for Fame. -Jerome Williams.

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CLASS OFFICERS Jerome Williams .......,........ President Marie Koster ........ .... V ice President Clarice Anderson . . . ....... Secretary Americo Fiorucci .... ..... T reasurer CLASS MOTTO Build for character, not for fame. CLASS COLORS Purple and Gold. CLASS ADVISORS Miss Miller Miss Belhumeur Mr. Schwei Miss Alving SENIOR CLASS SONG Tune: Lilac Time First Verse Roses in bloom, Rarest perfume, Tell us of our graduation, Soon we must leave But we'll believe, In gloom and days of depression Our High School days will forever Bind ties that no one can sever. Second Verse Days fleeting by Brings ever nigh Tasks of the future to master We will succeed Ever our creed Onward and upward to Master. We will look back to an old time To our old class ,twenty-nine. Chorus When High School days are but a dream, That linger in our memory We'll oft look back, And see like a guiding gleam The days we spent in our dear old Kingsford High. The paths we seek will ever be Just filled with thoughts and reverie, For High School days will live in our memory, And friends We knew in Kingsford High. Catherine Carlson

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x HtING5FQDlfilNTE ,. THE HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS OF '29 In the fall of 1925, as a group of one hundred Freshmen, We en- tered Kingsford High School. We were the first Freshmen that had ever assembled there, as the construction of the school had just been completed. We were as green as Freshmen usually are, but it did not show up so much for the reason that our upper-classmen were just as unfamiliar with the school as we were. After we had located our class rooms and had become accustomed to the subjects and rules, we held our first class meeting. We chose Miss Moore as our class advisor, and Paul Baumler as class president. It was during this year that Student Government was tried. The two Freshmen representatives were Paul Baumler and Helen LeQuia. Various parties and picnics throughout the year and an increasing knowledge rapidly decreased our greenness and by the end of the year were qualiiied to be full-fiedged Sophomores. XVhen we came back the next fall as Sophomores, we found that a few of our band had left and that new members had been taken in. We elected Miss Miller as class advisor and Donald Rich as leader. Donald left the class early that year and Paul Baumler was elected in his place. Student government was abandoned that fall. After we had initiated the Freshmen to a certain extent by taking them for a ride and immersing them in the clear cool waters of Crystal Lake, Mr. Davidson issued a decree banishing the initiation forever from Kingsford. VVith the lake so near at hand, initiation seemed very distasteful-to Freshmen. In April, we decided to make some money to fill our treasury and we organized a carnival. We had a minstrel show which every burnt- cork negro of us will remember and we also had the usual freaks and strong men, clowns and magicians. VVhen the class Basketball tournament came around we captured both the boys' and girls' trophies. We resolved to hold them throughout the remainder of our school career. When the end of the year came around we realized we had reached another milestone, we were Juniors, As Juniors, we took our abode in Room 37 under Miss Miller's guardianship. She was re-elected advisor and George Monte was chosen president. The Seniors invited us to join them at a Weenie roast on the banks of the Menominee. This was held one evening in September and we all remember the good time we had at swimming, playing games and roasting weenies on a fire that no human could approach within ten feet. During the fall a series of matinee dances were given and we Jun- iors gave one as our share. After Christmas we began to think about the Prom, Banquet, and the Play. Miss Miller advised us to have a party before we began our hard work in order that we might work harder as the result. This party was held on St. Patrick's day. We all looked Irish that evening with our shamrocks. Two weeks later Myrtle Sandstrom found a hatchet which had been hidden by the Hi-Y Club and as the result we received a party from them as they had promised one to the class that found the hatchet.