Carrolltown High School - Echoes Yearbok (Carrolltown, PA)

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.,,, f f ' ' 1 ' -:ffl 'V ',1if:'i.w- f' ' 1 VOLUME XI. CARROLLTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-MAY, 1935. NUMBER 1. Jl Message for 1- - ici:-izzicrizxioioiz VALH CTORY - SALUTATORYA ADDRESS They say there are people who al- ways like to have the last word. Fm sure 1 cannot see why they should for to me it seems the hardest of al-l words t-o say and I w-ould rather somebody else should be the one to say it. For that last word must be to many, if not to all of us, Good-bye. VVe have finished the course that has been given us, and are -now ready for a step forward along the pathway of life So far we have come together, hand in hand, and we have been looking forward to this time as a glad one, forgetting that it was going to mean a time of parting. Now we are suddenly forced to remember this feature, a-nd in spite of our triumph, it makes us sad. So I am not going to linger over the part- ing words. g To the Board of Education, as well as to our parents and friends, I would extend the thanks of the class for the privileges we have enjoyed here We naturally feel that we are better train- ed and more carefully looked after than many who attend school in other places, and under other conditions, for that is the spirit of school patriotism that we have inhaled with our every breathg and so, we as naturally feel very grateful to those who have made it possible for us to come to this par- ticular school. To'our dear principal and teachers, we have much we would like to say, but that curious lump comes into our throats and we are choked with the unspokwen thoughts that keep back the words. So we can only look at each in turn, knowing we must leave them, and brush aside the tears that we may -see their faces clearly for the last time. Dear teacfhers, you must all know how deeply we feel this, and can realize how much we mean by the only words we AD DRESS .............................................. can find to say--God bless you! Classmates, there's only -one word more, and the last one must be to you. VVe did not -realize how hard it was going to be to say it, did we? In our work here together, we have become very dear friends, and it is always hard to say good-bye, even for a little time, to the ones we have learned to care for. We have shared our ures, our triumphs and our fe pleas- W diss appointments.for so long that we -shall miss the old companionship more than we now realize, when we are too far apart to enjoy it. any longer. Some of us may work together th.rough some of the higher grades, but for the most ot' 'us, I feel that lt is indeed the parting Word. But I am sure that We shall not for- get each other, and that we will al- ways think ot these days as very happy ones, that made us, as classmates, a little nearer and dearer to one another than mere friends. Let us, as we part, pledge ourselves to -remember all the true and lofty aims that have been born in us- in -our work together here, and make our lives such as shall bring 'pride to our school, and cause our dear instruct-ors. every on-e of them, to be justly proud to remember that they Lhad -the task 'of teaching us how at least to begin to live. David Lieb, '35 the Seniors i1 Be not content to sit hack and rest upon your lau-rels. Success awaits everyone willing to work hard enough to achieve it. Although we are passing through a period of economic and so- cial distress, we may do well to remem- ber that Aibraham Lincoln, in his dark- est hours, was wont to remark, This too, will pass. Believing in Lincoln. be prepared for your opportunity. JOSEPH V. MAUCHER, JR. CARROLLTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Class of 1935 HDNOEROLL DAVID LTER Valedictorian HILDA FA RABAUGH Salutatorian ANNA KATHRYN KAYLOR ALICE SHARBAUGH CATHERINE BEARER FRANCIS LACSNY DONALD SHAR-BAUGH DOROTHY ECIKENRODE ANNA ECKENRODE VIRGINIA SIHARBAUGH CATHERINE' I-IARIRIGAN ,L...il..,....i,, DLASSllFl935 Twenty-first Annual COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Carrolltown High School SALUTATORY .... HILDA FARABAUGH oLAss HISTORY ................................ . .,........ ............ . FLORENCE ERTTER crinss PROPHECY ............................ ANNA KATHRY'N KAYIJOR CLASS VVILL .... CATHERINFJ BEARER VALEFDICTO-RY .............. DAVID LIEB HON. IVAN J. MCKE-NRICK PRFJSENTATIFON 0'F DIPLOMAS .... V. MAUCHER, PRINCIPAL CLASS SONG ................ CLASS OF 1935 RECESSIONAL ................ ORCHESTRA Parochial School Hull Thursday, May -2I3', 1,9-35, Eight o'c1ock HOXV TIME FLIES. VV,hen we were Freshmen, we looked with envy upon the privileges enjoy- ed by Seniors. It seemed, then, that our time would never come. We wait- ed and longed for three years for the p.rivi1eges we now enoy. Now, as Se- niors, our year has gone too quickly. It seems- only 9. short while since we entered- school in September, 11913-l, yet this time seems' so short has really been four years. Alice Sharbaugh, '35. ADDRESS Doioimxioiuior-o1u14xiu1Dioioq I am glad to welcome you to-night. Our graduating exercises would -be in- complete Without your presence and our parting from the school would .be sad without your good wishes. VVe feel that another guest is pres- ent at our assembly. He was not for- mally invited but his presence has been eagerly awaited by all of us. Our' ears have been listening anxiously to fh-ear him knock, and our eyes have been gaz- ing sharply at every stranger, lest we should see and fail t-o recognize him, for w-hose coming we so tru-stlngly Wait, and upon whom so muon depends. This unseen guest is Opportunity. Our future rests with him. It is often said that Opportunity knocks once at every man's door. Per'- haps in this modern age he wouldn't knock at all but call up on the tele- phone. And how tragic if we failed- to l'9C0g11iZe his voice when he said, Hel- lo! Chan-ces have been neglected, careers have come to naught. battles have been lost, and fame has faded- away, all be- cause the protagonist failed to .recog- nize Opportunity when he came. Perhaps many of y-ou are familiar with the poem of Edward Rowland Still, called Opportunity, which read-s as follows: This I beheld, or -dreamed it ln a dream:- There spread a cloud of dust along a plain: And- 'underneath a cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner WVavered, then staggered backward, heinmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought, 'Had I a sword of keener' steel- That blue blade that the king's son bears-but this Blunt thingi' I-Ie snapped and flung it from his hand, And l-oweri-ng crept away and left the field. . Then came the klng's son, wounded -sore bestead-, And weaponless, and saw the brok4 en sword, I-Iilt buried in the dry and trod- den sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that he- roic day. The 'kings son -saw the opportunity that the craven had failed to recog- nize and with it w-on fa. victory. Cour- age and' a. broken sword achieved what fear never dared to dream of and sav- ed a great CRUSH. , To many combatants in -the battle of life the same disaster occurs. Lack of success is laidl to lack of opportunity. How often we hear -so-me one say, If I had only been given -his chance, I would have done even greater things than he has accomplished. 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