Saginaw High School - Aurora Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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VALEDICTORY VALEDIGTORY Members of the Class of '28! Today is a great day in our lives. We have success- fully completed our High School careers. We have reached that long looked for moment toward which ,our three years of effort have been directed. We have scaled the pinnacle of our dreams. With fond memories we look back upon our High School years which to-day become a part of our past. When we entered this building three years ago as Sophomores the time of gradu- ation seemed in the far distant future. The departing Seniors were demi-godsand supermen to be admired and looked up to, but not to be approached. Upon successfully completing our first year, we took up the burden of upper classmen. The Seniors had lost some of their glamour, but were still a race apart. At last we took 'our places as leaders of th-e school, expectantly looking forward to the time when we would graduate. That time is at hand. We have reached the culmination of our school careers. But the eagerness is gone. Instead we view the approaching graduation with misgiving. We feel that we are leaving the best and most enjoyable part of our lives behind. Today old men dream dreams of the past, and young men see visions. We have forged our swords, now we are prepared for battle. We shall not look back upon bygone days but set our faces forward, eagerly waiting to test our strength upon obstacles greater than we have yet encountered. Instead of winning prizes, we shall strive to win success in the great adventure of life. With more mature- minds, we recognize lif-e for what it is, but the span of a single day in an eternity. We are here today and gone tomorrow. Perhaps we shall be remembered by our posterity, perhaps forgotten. The day which we live is extremely shorty but our day has just begun. That part which ends today is only the brilliant dawn, and so now we turn with eager heart toward the east, where jocund day, stands tiptoe, on the mountain tops. George Housner. PAGE EIGHTEEN

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STUDENT LANTERN-AURORA succeed the aforementioned Taylor to the presidency of the Student Union, the pop- ularity of the aforesaid Taylor having profited him many friends and votes. We give, and bequeath to that industrious member of the Junior Class of '29, Betty Oscar, the masticatory strength of Helen Yeager, said strength having won many admirers and much publicity in the Student Lantern. We give, and bequeath to those irrespressible members of the Junior Class of '29, Lily Holland and Harry L-awford, the prankish natures and blushing modesty of Bill Koepke and Pat Oppermann, Whose said natures and modesty have won them good marks and pretty girls. We give, and bequeath to that ever-faithful member of the Junior Class of '29, Aline Carpenter, the eternal regularity and promptness of Dorothy Ditz, which said regularity and promptn-ess has been a part of her record all -tlhrough High School, so that the aforesaid has never been absent or tardy. We give, and bequeath to the entire Junior and Sophomore Classes of '29, and Members of the Class of '28l Today is a great day in our lives. We have success- noon, bouncing rubber balls and spinning tops before the Old Building, sliding down the fire tubes and addressing well-known teachers by their first names. The said priv- iledges and benifits having been enjoyed by the Class of '28, we now passlto their rightful recipients. All the rest and residue of our estate imaginary, personal, and mixed, of which We die seized and possessed, or which We shall become entitled to at our decease, We give, and bequeath to be equally divided between our successors, the Junior Class of '29 and the Sophomore Class of '30, And, lastly, we do nominate and appoint our said successors, the Junior Class of '29 and the Sophomore Class of '30, to be the executors of this our last will and testa- ment, r In witness whereof. We, the said Class of '28, have to this, our last will and testament, subscribed our names and affixed our seal this day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-eight. . Louis Rock, V Class of '28 Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Class of '28, as and for its last will and testament, in the presence of us, who at its request, and in its presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses. J, , ff -mfg 577611 ,Mg , 727-My ' PAGE SEVENTEEN

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