Leadville High School - Sentinel Yearbook (Leadville, CO)

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, The lllljllllf llmszzc Swztnzcl I rw ere mel? 5 Q GIAZYCS G G ffC Four hundred and SIXTY three years have gone by SINCE ChrIstopl'er Columb s made hIs fIrst voyage from SpaIn to t Ie AmerIcas He belIeved thIs was a sphere shaped planet and Wlfh undaunted courage he k pt trymo to prove It He dId not know that he had dIscovered a new world wIth extensIve land and tremendous treasure hIdden below the earth However hIs efforts encouraged many otner voyagers to eventually encIrcle thIs glcbe and prcve hIs belIefs true D rIng the colonIzatIon years In AmerIca vast numbers of Europeans ventured here They had dreams of relIgIous polItIcaI or economIc lIberty They belIeved In theIr Ideas and were Wllllng to make SGCFITICSS to make t eIr dreams a realIty Early In the growth of our country vIllages developed Into CITIES Indus trIes began and grew Soon people who were not satIsfIed wIth the oppor tunItIes offered In f ll5 llmlfed area began to look westward It took desIre strength fearlessness and courage to move to new land and settle It not kn0WIng what problems they would have confront them We have had scIentIsts and Inventors who have struggled long and tIr Ing hours whose developments and fIndIngs have made us the most IndustrIalIzed natIon on the earth tnose who have had even a small part to do Wllh the development of AmerIca We can touch brIefly hov. ever on a few of them Thomas Ednson the most IngenIous of Amerlcans was always a very CUYIOUS InquIrer He was thought by hIs frIends to be an ImpractIcal dreamer vorklng contInually on hIs Ideas for InventIons WhIle he IS most famously known for hIs Incandescent electrIc lIght he took out over 1 100 patents for Items whIch he Invented HIs secret of si. ccess was hIs wIll power to contunue to search for the answers to hIs questIons and hlS LnlImIted PGTIGDCB By hIs talents good use of tIme and self encouragement Robert Fulton was able to fulfIll hIs desIre to design and assemble a practIcal steamer for ccmmercIal needs The Clermont was hIs fIrst steamshIp trIumph In 1815 he buIlt the fIrst steam warshIp for the UnIted States The INVENTION of the mI,ch needed cotton gIn gave fame to ElI Whltney and furthered the cotton weav Ing Industry In our country ThIs man wIth UI'tUSLCl mechanIcal skIll and IHQCHUITY produced after much ef fort a cotton SCPGYCTIOH machIne ThIs enabled the cotton growIng states to meet the demands of nevwly Invented spInnIng and weavIng machInes Alexander Graham Bell d6VI5ed the telephone In 1876 lt was referred to as the latest AmerIcan humbug IH the London TImes ResolutIon to keep workIng for somethIng In whIch he belIeved makes It pos sIble for us to converse wIthIn a few moments Wlfh th ose dear to us who are far away Long experIence ntrod ced world Wlde communIcatIon that we could not do wIthout today Modern machInery and materIals have greatly reduced the tIme necessary to complete tasks that our ancestors dId so slowly Paved hIghvoys raIlroads coast to coast skyscrapers aeronautIcal advancements electrIcal applIances modern landscaped buIldInas farm machInery and new sanItatIon measures have raIsed our standard of lIvIng We attrIbute these to those who were Wllllng to keep lookIng and workIng In the face of dIscouraaements for somethInq they belIeved possIble We the Class of 1955 must not resIgn ourselves to apathy and Indifference We must try to GIVE real ty to our dreams Let us IUST not have Ideas for a lIfe OCCUPUTIOH or goals for success let us try wIth wIll de termInatIon and fortItude to go ahead and accomplIsh the attaunment of those goals MARGARET WEBER Salutatonan uf 50515 yew: one lb Hs 1 ,bad ', ', '-', '4A v - N . ', ', ,,gM MN, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ' I . . ll I ' ,,,, ,,,,,, 1 , f, 1? I 9 0 ! ' ' J ...... 34, L' . . . I . I . . I h I . e . Q V . H I . . E . . v. . . . . I . , . I P' ' .. . 5. . . . . I I I It would take many hours to relate all of the exciting, adventurous and worthwhile experIences of l . . . I l' , . I I l ' l I . I ' l - I . ' l' . . V . . . - o . Q ll ' ,, ..... . . . - - l . ' .,' . . , , U I . . I . . 5 I I U . . . . i I .... I . . I - , . I ll fa 4

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H! , I uc Illflllllf llasszzfe Sezzzfzlzel QV? UIAHVILS Fruends and parents of the Class of T955 ut us my pruvulege to welcome you to our commencement We most certaunly would be thoughtless and uncfnsuderate youna peop e uf e fauled to look wuth gratutude thus evenung toward those admunustrators teachers parents and fruends who have made our educatuonal paths plecsant and possuble to travel So tonught we welcome you to thus occasuon of honor to share the credut wuth you and rughtly so for you most certaunly deserve a malor portuon We wush to thank the members of the faculty for the aud they have guven us durung our school career Quucker to complument than to crutucuze they wrote theur udealusm and love of learnung undelubly un the hearts of those of us who sat at theur feet to learn They took us as chuldren gave us of themselves theur experuence theur e emerge from the guudance of theur hand and eye young pulgrums wuth JOELYN ROEDER shrunes to seek and fascunatung new roads to follow Through theur untellugent teachung we have learned to value knowledge not for uts own sake but for the new vustas of understandung ut opens In a world where undoctrunatuon of youth was and us a threat to undependent thunkung we un contrast have known the blessung of guuded thought as well as freedom of decusuon and chouce There are no words adequate to express apprecuatuon to the communuty for havung guven us schools un whuch to acquure our educatuon Our student days were blessed wuth that measure of wuse and balanced admunustratuon whuch makes Ameruca s educatuonal system the envy of the world It us a far cry from the log schools of Luncoln s day to the aury corrudcrs and equupment un the rooms where we dud our sums and learned our letters But of all who share our prude un thungs accomplushed of all who watch wuth unterest tonughts com mencement of the yet to be our closest bonds are wuth those parents whose love and care have endured over a peruod of years Theur eyes have followed us unwaverungly reflectung wuth prude even the smallest measure of progress we make Personal sacrufuce beyond the call of duty us represented here tonught un the person of those mothers and dads who knew u.s furst forgave us most and love us more than we deserve We are humble un the realuzatuon that we dud not always make the most of the best that was un us that we brought these parents dusappountment Theur fauth un us survuved And because of thus our hearts and hands reach out to them we offer them a guft thus funal completuon of our hugh school course We say farewell to you tonught farewell only as members of the student body of Leadvulle Hugh School We aren t goung to leave you really But after tonught we shall no longer be students of the hugh school So for the class as we sav farewell to you as senuors may we also areet you as young people of your communuty You lose us as senuors but you ac n us as young adults ready to do the work whuch awauts us beyond hugh school JOELYN ROEDER Valeductoruan fgs wom nes 1 Lia sa 5111 '7 '11ff11ff1II1fQ - ' u I .N ' illlilfliff T I e 0 a o X philosophy-taught us to think: and now that this period of training is over, n 1 n c 1. I . 1 . , . . . . . ll ll ' , . . ,

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10 , , I be lllfjllllf llmuu e Sc uztmcl 1 osf epresen fail ve Margaret Weber has done outstandung work un many actuvutues durung her hugh school career She was selected as the Most Representatuve Gurl un the Class of 1055 The many actuvutues and offuces she held are lusted wuth her class pucture She has devoted extra hours to the Prospector and the Senuor Annual Margaret s unturung efforts un carryung to completuon the task assugned gave evudence cf her dependabuluty She us fruendly and always wullung to aud wuth prolects Because she dud umportant 'obs un a quuet effucuent manner she meruted the confudence of all wuth Margaret plans to attend Colorado State College of Educatuon It us the wush of her Leadvulle Hugh School fruends that she wull have the same success un her new clumb as she had un the one whuch she has lust completed Thus verse seems to embody Margarets phulosophy Do what conscience says us rught Do what reason says us best Do wuth all your mund and mught Do your duty and be blessed ik MARGARET WEBER osf epresen fafzve cy because of the qualuty of work done un these actuvutues Jere also plans to attend C l d S J ERE ROOD That us the way to be cheerful and gay All that you do do wuth your mught Jere Rood was chosen Most Representatuve Boy un the class of 1955 He receuved thus h t l b onor no on y ecause of the quantuty of actuvutues un whuch he partucupated but The many capacutues un whuch Jere has served hus school are lusted th h l wu us c ass pucture To be Edutor un Chuef of the Prospector and to head the Senuor Annual Staff was a h d k uge un erta ung Charterung the course of these prolects necessutated many long hours of work outsude of school Jere has dusplayed unutuatuve wullungness to assume responsubuluty and to adhere to school polucues He has a fruendly democratuc manner whuch makes hum very popular o ora o tate College of Educatuon Best wushes of hus Leadvulle Hugh School assocuates accompany hum on hus path to greater heughts Thus luttle poem seems to express Jere s phulosophy Work whule you work play whule you play Thungs done by halves are never done rught getting aforzg wifg fleofzfe is a seazsf of success - ,,---,,-,-----. u , --' u X, 0 2 ,-,- ' , 1 .. . ,,,,,,,,.-,-- V I an 1 u a ' ' whom she came in contact. e I ' ,, . . . I . . . I ll kg I I ' I . . , , 1 ll ' 1 , 1 l ' l I ' - ll