Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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but just as clouds may flit across the azure sky of a bright summer day, so we, too, have had our little struggles and troubles, but if we should attempt to enumerate them, we would find it difficult on the spur of the moment to think of a single one. Instead, pleasant memories surge in upon us and the unpleasant ones are shut out. All the glories of our past school life seem to be concentrated in this, our commencement day, as the sunset seemingly reflects the brightness of the passing day. But this cannot last. We are now to bid our Alma Mater farewell. Several of this year's graduates did not intend to finish their course, but there seemed to be a secret charm connected with the old school and year after year they returned. We are now leaving a school, which has become a second home to us, but we do not intend to lose sight of our Alma Mater. lts influences will be more far reaching than it may at times seem. The re- flected rays of the sun remain visible even after it has passed from our view, and so old P. H. S. with its associations will exert its influence after we have passed out into life. When the sun has sunk beneath the horizon, darkness gradually creeps over the sky, the stars and moon appear and send forth their light. Night comes on, but it seems like a new day, only so different. Our life after to-day will not be the same as it has been in the past, it will seem like a new day. The light from the stars and moon is not as bright as that of the sun, and yet they both come from the same source. Likewise, our path is not laid out as clearly before us as it was in the past. We will not be under the direct influence of parents and teachers, when we go out to our workg but we are not afraid, because we have one Light that never fails to show us the way. With the poet we can pray. 1,0g1+1, kindly Light! amid th' encirf-ling gloom, Lead Thou me ong L 15 .li

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The night is dank, and I am far from home, Loud Thou me Ong Keep Thou mys feet: 1 do not ask to se-e The distant set-ue, one step euougrth for me. When the last rays of the setting sun flit across the sky, we look back upon the passing day, and our warm and sincere feelings of gratitude go out to those with whom we have spent these last happy hours. With you school mates, we have spent many happy hours and for these we wish to thank you. We have not tried to appear different from what we really are, and have never tried to be models for you. If you have suffered from our ex- ample, we are sorry, but we hope sincerely that it is not so. We wish you success in the continuation of your school work, but now, dear schoolmates, we must bid you farewell. To the class of 1914, we wish to express our appreciation for its kind interest in the Senior class and its work, in bidding you farewell pass on our senior- ship to you with our best wishes. The warmth and glow from the different rays of the sun are not the same, some are warmer and of a more glorious color, and so the gratitude we feel, when we look back upon the days spent at our Alma Mater, is warmer and deeper when we think of our teachers. Whenever we were puzzled or perplexed, we would go to you, and your kind advice was always willingly given. As we bid you farewell, dear teachers, we wish to thank you for all you have been to us while at school. Only a few short months ago we bade one of our dear teachers a last fare- well. We are now to bid each other farewell, but before we go, let us look back at the time we spent together at P. H. S. We have enjoyed school life, and we regret that we must say good-bye to it. Sometimes, and. perhaps too often, our pleasures would interfere with our workg but the one thing we can look upon with great joy is the strong ties of friendship that always existed between the different members of our class. From our class meetings ' 1 6