Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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.EDICT Life's Picture99 We. the members of the senior class of 1935, have come to the end of our high school career; to the Commencement which for four years has been our goal and our ambition. Now that it has come, we aie almost sorry, for it marks the end of four of the happiest years we have ever known. So much lias been done for us since we have been in school. e have learned lessons; we have made friends; and we have had a very good time. Now as we come to this day of graduation, we realize that our good times, far from being over, are just beginning— that we have only just begun to live; and that this Commencement Day marks the true commencement of our lives. During the past twelve years, and es-peeially the last four, we have been learning tin fundamentals of getting along with people, the basic principles of life. Now it remains to us to apply these principles to the greatest advantage. As an artist stands before his easel, so we stand before the future of our lives, having within us the power to make them what we wish. They may be beautiful and inspiring, or drab and uninteresting, as we choose. Before the painter lies a truly bewildering array of materials for his picture. He has many glowing colors, and the ones he lacks, he can mix. He is plentifully supplied with brushes, large and small, and as he begins to paint, we wonder what his picture is to be. We want it to be beautiful, and we are full of ideas and suggestions, some of which he may accept, and some discard. Wc may try our best to help him in every way we can, but he himself must paint the picture. So much depends on him: he must choose a theme, a general idea to be ear ried out in detail; then he must make a choice of color. His picture may be gay and lively, quiet and restful, or somber and unexciting. It may even be unpleasant in its harsh, unbalanced combination of color. Having decided upon a theme and a color scheme, he must next determine his means of portrayal. And this is very important; so many otherwise lovely pictures are spoiled by the unattractive angle from which we view them, or because they are presented to us in the wrong way. But the greatest task by far is that of painting the picture, and that is where so many of us fail. For we all have pictures to paint, and we must take care that, with all our high hopes and good intentions, we do not fail in the actual work, and make of our picture only a simple pencil sketch. In this great task of living which lies before each one of us, we must be very sure that our materials are of the best, cur theme a worthy one. and our attitude and bearing agreeable. The great and successful men and women of the world today and all through history are those who have used to the very best advantage tin materials supplied them. We can do every bit as well if we will but do our best, and put into our task of living every good and noble effort at our command. May we keep in mind the immortal words of Longfellow; “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.,, —Mary Ann Waller. P age t w e n t y • t w o

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queath all of my wide variety of boy friends to anybody who’ll take them. I, Herbert Beckman, do hereby will and bequeath my all-important manner to my good-for-nothing brother. I, Sybil Purdy, do hereby will and bequeath my college flames to Josephine White. I, Gerald King, do hereby will and bequeath my forever well groomed appearance to Raymond Shoup. I, Eileen Dick, do hereby will and bequeath my blues singing ability to Mina Batterson. I, Hershel Eberhard, do hereby will and bequeath my angelic smile to Max Tucker. 1, Dorothy Knisely, do hereby will and bequeath my studious intents to Ilo Blosser. T, Robert James, do hereby will and bequeath my fiddling artistry to John Duckwall. 1. Irene Bodlcy, do hereby will and bequeath my midnight locks to Winifred Berlien. I, Noble Allen, do hereby will and bequeath my story-telling ability to LaOtto Willibey. I, Herschel Clark, do hereby will and bequeath my unused school books to James Crankshaw. I. Mary Ann Waller, do hereby will and bequeath my privilege of being the best looking red-head to Miss Reed. I. Wavde Cleckner, do hereby will and bequeath my uncontrollable temper to Harold McKinley. 1, Mon .ella Wilson, do hereby will and bequeath my “personality plus” to Eleanor Bakstad. I, Kenneth Past, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to look innocent when making a foul to Raymond Mote. I, Edgar Wells, do hereby will and bequeath my extraordinary ability to blush to Charles Jacobs. I, Louise Gettings, do hereby will and bequeath my studiousness to Mary Catherine Lippincott. I, Wilma Parks, do hereby will and bequeath my quiet demeanor to Alack Ho- sack. I, Marquerite Goodrich, do hereby will and bequeath my dexterity in shorthand to Gale Garver. 1, Doloris Eisenhour, do hereby will and bequeath my skill in the culinary arts to Louise Helme. I, Russell Guilford, do hereby will and bequeath my multitudinous freckles and mechanical ingenuity to Toad Goudy. 1. Thomas Owens, do hereby will and bequeath my highly honorable position as student manager to Gib Saunders. Signed, published, and declared by the senior class on this twenty-fourth day of May, 1395, in witness whereof we hereunto set our hand and seal. Signed: SENIOR CLASS Per Thomas Owens. President. Secreta ry Treasurer.

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SALUTATORY Welcome, Success!” Friends: We, the senior class of 1935, wish to welcome yon to our class day exercises. At this time may we express our sincere appreciation of the thoughtfulness you have shown as our high school days draw to a close. We welcome you with the remembrance of all the things that you have done in the past four, or, shall I say, twelve years, to give us this great opportunity, that we might be better able to cope with this world that we are about to face. As we welcome you to this, our class day, there is a deeper welcome that we wish to express, the welcome of the future, its hardships, its lessons, and its successes. This is our graduation from a period of preparation and the beginning or commencement of a new and more complicated life and, we hope, a most complete life. We are eager to be graduated, not because we have disliked the experiences of the past four years, for undoubtedly they have been more pleasing than any we shall ever have, but because we are easier to be beginning something new and entirely different. Soon after we are graduated, we shall undertake the choice and pursuit of one line of work. We have, in the past, been liberalists, gathering a little knowledge along a great many lines, but now we shall become specialists, learning all that is possible along one line of endeavor. Some of us will delay the attack on the hard knocks of life for a short while by furthering our education in fundamentals at colleges and universities. Others of us will start to fight the long, uphill road to success at once, learning by experience, which, it is said, is the best teacher after all. Either path mentioned, we trust, will lead to the same climax, the climax to everyone’s ambition, success. Success! But what is success? This question has been faced and answered by millions. Everyone in this world with ambition is aiming at the one last step in the stairway of life, success. Ts the capitalist with his millions successful ? The question is asked. Yes, the answer comes, but the man who runs the corner grocery is a success also, as is anyone who can look at a completed task and say, “That was my best effort.” Then, as we reason further along this line, we realize that to be successful does not essentially mean to have control over millions of dollars, but to be independent, to be able to meet all one’s obligations, social, moral, and financial, and to be able to say that something has been done to raise one's family, nation, or race to a little higher level. Success — the magic word, success—at which we, the class of ’35, are aiming! May we remember these words of .Marcus Aurelius: “Forward as the occasion offers. Never look around to see whether any shall note it. . . . Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and to think that even such a result is no trifle.” Again we wish to express our happy and sincere welcome to you, our friends, and to the life that we are about to face, equipped with the tools with which you have provided us. —Gerald King. P a k e twenty- three