Ada High School - Cougar Yearbook (Ada, OK)

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gf 4 To the Class of l9l6, Ada, O. It seems to me but yesterday since this class of excellent young men and women were the boys and girls of the eighth grade, the last class of that queen of women, Sadie Kirkpatrick. Now you are the graduating class of the Ada High School and we trust with as pure a life and as lofty a purpose as that of your eighth grade teacher. No more do we look upon school as a preparation for life: it is strenuous life itself, a type of survival of the Httest. ln this life we intuitively seek happiness and success. In our seeking some look above, some look belowg some look in the grandeur of the soul, some in the grossness of the senseg some look and reach into a heaven of purity, some stare and fall into a hell of licenti- ousness. And the height to which they rise or the depth to which they fall is determined by their I deals of life and the energy used in the prosecution of those ideals. We trust only right ideals have been presented to you: certainly you will adopt only the good, the true, the beautiful, through life. Again we thank you for your every courtesy, thought and kindness. Again we renew our pledges of faith and fellowship, and bid you a God speed in life's work, happiness and success. Cordially, E. H. BROWN, Supt. Schools, Napoleon, O.

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The Annual Board . STANDING-Storer, joke Editorg Vogenitz, Athletic Editorg Adam, Assistant Editor SEATED--Tobias, Assistant Editorg Mertz, Business Managerg Cunningham, Editor. X

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- Editorial :- HE year book of the largest Senior Class in the history x of the county schools IS completed and we submit to the public what we consider the best book ever published by a Senior Class of the Ada High School-The Cn Yor Hi of 'I6. It has been a laborious task but as we now see what we have accomplished we feel fully repaid for our effort. As the book is the work of amateurs all errors we hope will be overlooked by the criticising public. You, dear reader, may notice a few repetitions of customs from past volumes. Here we let tradition influence us and leave them remain unchanged. It would be impossible to portray all the works of the Class of 'I6 within its covers. Furthermore we have tried to relieve as much as possible the egotistical idea that this book is a strictly Senior publication by making it of general interest to all concerned with the school. It is with a feeling of gladness that we finish our Public School career. We have weathered twelve years of storms and calms on the sea of knowledge. But as we realize we are look- ing out on a new world there comes a twinge of sadness, for we will in a sense be caused to become more independent. This new world holds only unknown things for us both good and evil. We will miss our school friendships,-our fellow-students, the fac- ulty and familiar scenes and places about the building. As we separate this May to go Cod alone knows where,- the class of 'I6 will suffer its first worldly sorrow. It is highly improbable that its sixty-six members will ever be assembled with all present again. It is for that reason that we have undertaken the publishing of this book. ln years to come we may dispel hours of gloom with its pages. It will be a treasure coveted by the fortunate owners. As a class we wish to thank all who have in any way made possible the publishing of this book: the faculty, the under- graduates, the cartoonists, and the public. For without this aid we would have been helpless and the book a failure. It is a large undertaking but we advise every Senior class to publish an annual. And we of the Class of 'I6 as alumni pledge our unfailing support to the class or classes willing to assume the responsibilities. THE Emron.