Auburn High School - Trojan / Oracle Yearbook (Auburn, IL)

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I $ 3Q i VALEDICTORY Parents, Teachers, and Friends: As to night is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives we feel that this is the opportune time to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to those who have so ably assisted us in the past four years in all our under- takings. I o the parents first, we wish to thank you for the sacrifice and the way you have encouraged us and made it possible for us to take advantage of the splendid opportunities presented in this school. Sometimes you may have been discouraged and felt that we were not putting forth our best efforts. We ask you to pardon our mistakes and hope you will feel repaid, in a measure, tonight for your sacrifices. To our superintendent and teachers. As our high school career draws to a close we realize more than ever before the splendid training we have received from you in preparing us for the higher education for which we are striving. We wish to thank you for all this and for your kindness and patience and we hope that sometime you will see your efforts rewarded. 1 wish to say to the Board of Education and the community, we sin- cerely thank you for the splendidly equipped building which you have pro- vided for us and also for the hearty support you have given us the last four years. To you, classmates, we must ever bear in mind that the time has come when no man or woman can achieve great success without a higher educa- tion. In order to attain the best and highest in life we must ever remember and follow our class motto, “Build For Character And Not For Fame,” for without character fame is valueless. In short time our high school days will be over and possibly we may meet together again, but whatever we do or wherever we are let us keep before us the effort put forth by all our friends here to provide these advantages. So with the thought of our motto, “Build For Character And Not For Fame,” in the name of the Class of ’25, I bid you good-night and good-bye. —Wilbur Alexander

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jWJJJ lAi!jiifjwjjs ywywj ii!! ii jnj FVSE i g| 5S The park was built since I had left on my flight, so it had grown |j rapidly. I went on to Auburn and went to the Bijou theatre. When I ■a returned, it was being run by Mable Mendam and Eunice Foster. They a sure knew how to run a theatre. They had only first class pictures. I a always knew the education they had received at high school here would help them. I went over to a restaurant to eat and there was Thelma Baker run- ning the business. Hugh Geddes was a waiter there and seemed to like it. I stayed in town a few days and the business kept increasing so much that finally Thelma increased Hugh’s salary. I returned with the substitute still in the tank and Vincent and I now run a substitute filling station, but the customers never come back. James Murphy. SENIOR CLASS POEM The goal we’ve all looked forward to We’ve gained this very year, Our school we leave with sadness, Fond memories linger near. Thro’ our four years of High School We have tried to do our best, We have studied, and recited And have written every test. We have loved our friends and teachers Who to us have been so true. We shall ever treat with reverence Our dear White and Navy Blue Tho’ we leave our friends and classrooms And from the A. H. S. we go, Out into the world of battles We shall conquer every foe. We have tried to take an active part In affairs of Auburn High, We will to you our places, Our departing time is nigh. Our boys in athletics Have gained for us a name In basket-ball and foot-ball They’ve won their way to fame. They’ve always shown good sportsmanship And played their games so well But to the others of the team They’ll bid you now farewell. We seniors now will leave you, Our parting time is nigh, We launch, where shall we anchor? Farewell, dear Auburn High. Lauretta McLaughlin. 'iwenty-four rTiiivirrsvir gvi r?»v; rTa irTsvi

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SALUTATORY Dearest Parents, Teachers, and Friends: As this is almost the last time our little band will be together, we, as a class, want to take this opportunity to thank you; and welcome you to our Class Day Exercises. Through four long, though seemingly short, years, we have struggled onward, and now we have reached what has been our goal. We stand at a place where the road of our life’s journey is forked from the main one which we have been traveling; some will go one way, others another, toward a new and better goal but nevertheless let us re- member that this is only an earthly goal, therefore let us strive harder for our heavenly one. e cannot begin to express our appreciation in words, but in our own humble way, we wish to thank especially our parents, as it was only through their love, kindness and helpfulness that it has been made possible for us to acquire this start in life. To Professor C. R. Davis and the rest of the faculty who have been so thoughful and patient with us, we are so grateful to you but time alone can reward you ; and just now my thoughts arc of the many other teachers who have been so faithful to us during the preceding three years. I sincerely wish that they all might be present to receive your thanks and gratitude. Often and often, in the days to come, when we are thrown more and more upon our own guidance and intuition, our minds will travel back to you, and we shall realize how many times you have helped us to overcome this and that difficulty, till we shall long, I am sure, to return to you for pro- tection and advice. May God reward you. dear teachers, for your splendid work. To the many friends we have made during these four years, it is hard to part, but we shall remember you always and often recall these pleasant times we have had to-gether. To the Board of Education, we wish to thank you for the wonderful opportunities which have been offered us during the past years, and to whom we owe our gratefulness for having such an ideal school to attend. Classmates, for you, I have a few more words. In our work together we have shared our pleasures, our triumphs and our disappointments for so long, that we will miss the old companionship, when we are too far apart to enjoy it any longer, than we can now realize. Some of us may work to- gether on through colleges and Universities, but for the most of us. 1 feel that it is indeed a parting time. But I am sure we shall always remember each other and think of these days as very happy ones. In closing 1 have a little motto which was Abraham Lincoln’s maxim, “Try, for if you never try, you will never succeed.” And now' to these Class Day Exercises, I, in the name of the class of nineteen hundred and twenty-five do bid you “Welcome.” —Ada E. Masterson Twenty-six