Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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4 THE ORACLE Salutatory Address Helen L. Edwards To all of our friends here this evening we extend our most hearty greeting. To our fac- ulty; to our ever-helpful prin- cipal, Mr. Best; our warm friend, Dr. Maxson; to the Board of Education; to our distinguished guest, who has come to give us his valuable ad- vice, and to the worthy citizens of Plainfield—to you all, we give a most cordial welcome. It is through your efforts that we have been able to secure the key which unlocks for us the door of opportunity. Those of us to whom opportunity has come through our commercial course feel that the most important part of our work has been not simply the business training which we have received, but the fine ideals of ef- ficiency and service which have always been our inspiration. The motto in one of our class-rooms, the words of a former much-beloved teacher, Mr. MacNab, might sum up the spirit of our training: ‘“The heaping good measure of service That no one has quite the right to ask of us, That is what everyone wants from us.’’ This supplemental service we might call the Golden Rule in business.

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“ THE ORACLE | | “I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.” YEAR BOOK Ob LHE? Class OF 1916 BOARD OF EDITORS RicHMOND H. RrrrersusH, Editor AUGUSTA ALLEN FLORENCE NIELSEN HAROLD SEAL DICKERMAN WILLIAMS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mis s HELEN L. Brown Miss ELLEN K. CUMMING BUSINESS MANAGER GERALD D. LINKE ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS WILLIAM BACKER James J. NooNAN Entered as Second-class Matter November 17, 1904, at the Post Office at Plainfield, N. J., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published on the first Wednesday of every month during the school year, by the students of the Plainfield, N. J., High School. Printed by the Central Publishing Company, 130-132 Central Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. 25 CENTS THIS Copy. 90 CENTS THE YEAR. JUNE, 1916. INO 9: Mom, OSL Years of High School work are marked by hours of pleasure as well as toil, and the friendships formed in this happy period remain as dear memories throughout our lives. We prize the friendship of Mr. Beers as one of our most valuable possessions. Entering the same year with us, a stranger among strangers, he has been our companion throughout the course, a source of help and encouragement, a true member of the Class of 1916. Our regret in passing from the daily companionship of Mr. Beers is very deep, but our compensation les in the thought of the others who wil come under his manly influence,

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THE ORACLE 5 Valedictory Address Ellen Shjarback Classmates: Tonight, as we are saying goodbye to dear old P. H. S. and are about to enter a much broader life, there could be no better wish for us than that some of these visions should stay with us; for surely we could learn no more valu- able lessons than to have sym- pathy for others, to be optimis- tic, to control our ambitions, to show respect to every man, and to let our deeds shine out in the world as the beams of a eandle gleam forth in the darkness. We are about to leave the schoolboy and schoolgirl part of life and enter into the scenes of manhood and womanhood. Let us, as we go on to the larger stage, play our part well and so bring honor, not only to ourselves, but to our Alma Mater.