Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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and it is the increased attendance and graduation from college which has made it somewhat difficult for a high school graduate to attain real success and engage in the important fields of occupation without further training. When we enter college we should have some definite aim toward which we may work. Each of us is in this work for some specific purpose and our duty is to find this purpose and concentrate our minds on it until we have reached our goal. We are all born with a certain amount of talent and our task should be to find that thing which we are best fitted to do. Some of us may not possess so much talent as some of our friends, but we should develop and make the best of what we have. It has been said that, The development of the talents given us or the intellect with which we are born is one of the first steps toward our goal or making good. We can not all expect to attain national or world fame, but we can expect to be successful in the line of work we choose if we keep working steadily and persistently until we have reached that end. In later years when we look back on our high school days we shall remember the kindness and patience of our teachers and the helpful words they spoke to us in our times of need. We shall find in our future life that the friendships and associations formed in our high school days have had a deep and profound influence upon our lives. And now as we leave our high school and enter the different lines of work, it is our desire that our achievements in life reflect credit on our parents, teachers, and friends who have had so vital a part in our training. —Sue Waller. -

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work. We hope that in giving the best that we have, to contribute something to this chosen work. We have always had our parents, friends and faculty to help us in deciding our issues, but after graduation we sball be less dependent. It is vitally neces- sary that each boy and girl should feel tbe new responsibility that must now enter in, as a part of his character; even though his sense of carefree happiness is stilled in a small measure changing him to a slightly more serious person, he must meet his problems, unafraid. What is our standard? This is a thing each of us must determine, to some extent, for himself; it is his highest conception of duty to God and to Ins fellow men. As we see about us all the wrongs that threaten the good of our nation, we realize their foundation as nothing more than man ' s desire for more than his lawful share. If a high standard were adopted by everyone, such selfishness could not long thrive. So it is, that we realize along with our other respons- ibilities, that it is up to us to make and maintain a high standard of life. We hope that we possess the qualities necessary for good citizenship, right living and the performance of our duty. It is with affection in our hearts for our school, our fellow associates and loyal faculty that we, tin- Class of ' 27, join the others in the tasks before us. — Lois Golden. Daledictorrj We, the students of the class of Nineteen Twenty-seven have come to the end of our high school career. We have eagerly looked forward to this day since we first entered school and now our minds are filled with the eager anticipations of the future. Mingled with our joy there is, however, a deep regret to leave the place where we have spent so many happy days in the past twelve years. All things must eventually come to a close and the end of this, one of our great periods in life, is marked by the Commencement Day. What is Commencement? This is a very simple word but one full of meaning. Some people regard it merely as the ending of our high school course, but this is ;i very wrong conception. Commencement does mean the completion of our high school work, but it is only the beginning of our real education. A high school education is somewhat general in most cases, while a college course is usually alone- one specific line of work. It has been well said that The foundation for everything is always the most important. And if we school ourselves in the way that gives us courage for tasks far beyond any we have ever attempted, then we are able to go ahead with little fear in our hearts. At present there are colleges in all parts of the country that are easily available to everyone, and it is taken almost for granted that every ambitious and aspiring young person will attend one of them. In modern times a diploma from college is regarded as was one from the high school in early days. . There are many positions open to the better educated person

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Senior Class Prophecu I was seated before the fire one blustery night thinking of the days long past. Outside, the wintry wind whistled around the house through the large cedar trees and came roaring down the chimney like a lion after its prey, The large logs in the fireplace snapped and sputtered as they gave out the cheery, dancing flames. As I sat watching the sparks play hide and seek in the spacious chimney, a feeling of supreme happiness came over me, and in my mind ' s eye, 1 imagined I was again hack, forty years ago, in dear old A. II. S.. seeing the same old classmates and friends. While in this frame of mind I saw among the glowing embers a picture, very indistinct at first, and then giowing l.righter, until at hist it assumed life-size proportion. 1 stared in ama .eiiieiit at the seeming phantom. One picture after another appeared, only to pass up the chimney in smoke. Gathering my scattered wits together I saw that they were pictures of my former classmates, but how changed they were since I hail seen them last. I could even hear them talking, while they stopped for a second to give me a glimpse of their present and past life. A log crackled and sputtered, and from the flame arose a picture of the bleak prison at Sing Sing, where I saw Stephen Horn and Milton Olmstead who were there on, charges of bigamy. They were foolish enough to imagine they could control two women at once. This picture faded and a second one took its place. There was Josephine Dilts as a second Galli Curci. She smiled and gave me a lovely bow. as she told me the following in a soft, lisping voice. Lois Golden and I are having our voices cultured in Paris. We are going over after them soon. I have snug in Grand Opera. Grand Haven, and Grand Rapids! I have even broken the record — when I sang in a phonograph. What a goal she has reached! I almost envied her, but then — I now saw, among the coals, Harley Allion as a diamond merchant. He was selling peanuts at the base ball park. I could hear him yelling peanuts! ' in much the same way as he yelled Yea team, tear ' em up! ' at a basket ball game. The next picture to appear was that of Lowell Collins and Roy Bodie as great musicians. They, too, lingered a little while to tell me of their adven- tures. Lowell, who always loved to explain, told me they had even played in Sousa ' s Hand once — once was enough! They have both been married but are now divorced. They say it costs more to get a divorce than to get married. hut it is worth more. Could it he possible? Yes, there was Tubby -Douglas as drummer boy in the Salvation Army. When the army charged he took his drum — and beat it. I closed my eyes for a second, and on opening them, saw that the scene had shifted to a steamer in mid-ocean. On it was Russel Miller going to Switzerland for his lungs. What a strange place to leave them! But Russel was always such a forgetful person. In the next picture I saw La -Mar Luck as chief cook for the President.