Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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SPOTLIGHT OF 1934 Perpetual talking machine Peppiest girl Peppiest boy Biggest pest Worst giggler Tiniest girl Worst primper Biggest flirt Wittiest classmate--- - Quietest person Meekest person Teachers pet Most popular boy Class chaperone-- Biggest bluffer Worst gum chewer Turtle doves Dorothy Lochinaw Most industrious Biggest blusher Biggest booster Most bashful Clas.s angel Best natured Best sport Best dancer Most Punctual-- Most popular girl Most intellectual- •Maxine Moyer ■Mildred Russell

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS Faculty, Classmates, Friends:--Through cur school years ire have attended this annual event with a sense of pleasure, knowing that we had advanced one year nearer our gool. Tonight we, as Seniors, come with S feeling of loss and regret, realizing that we are leaving the Eerrien Springs High School and wondering what the future holds in store for us. Tonight marks not the end but the beginning or our liv and -what ourllives will be depends largely on the foundations we have bden building for them in our school years. As we are about to step forth into the world it is well to consider what part we are to play in the battle of life. There are a number of unwitten laws that are fixed and unchangeable. They regulate the actions of men and vd me. We may not know that these laws exist. A1 the time, however, we are moving in obedience to one of the most powerful of these laws--The Great Law of Compensation--this lawexpressed by Christ when he said: With whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you. It may not have occured to us that for whatever harvest we reap, we have at some time sown the seed It is a vital truth in the life of every person that as he enjoys the richness of life, he is consciously or unconsciously signing his name to life's prommisory not— For value received, I promis to pay. As we stand here tonight, the doors of our school with its sheltered lift closing behind us, we ask ourselves the question-- Just what are we going to get out of life anyway? It all rests with us. We.will get out of life just exactly what we pay for — just what we put into it. Everything in the world has its price and we cannot gai n one advancement or advantage without at some tine paying every o mce to its valuf So it remains for us to decide what we most desire to get out of life, and then earnestly strive to attain that end. There are always agreat many people who will attempt to work the graft upon the world but sooner or later every account comes up for f- ll settlement. Members of the Faculty, we begin to realize how grateful we must be to you for these years of training. How often we see men and women paying for their early mistakes by years of bitter remorse, or th-hand, enjoying the rewards that they have, earned by adhering to the right, with due regard for the rights and feelings of others. Thus, to you who have given us so fair a start, we do feel a debt of gratitude . Classmates:—All these years of our student life me have been on the receiving hand. We have been getting from life its best gifts. While we may have justly earned a portion of all we have attained, there is a great deal of that day-by-day character building for which we are still indebted to all the influences, both seen and unseen, that have been brought to bear upon us through these years. As we look back, it is easy to see the Value received of our high school career. Now the time has come for the working out of our promise to pay. The world will at once look for us to pay back into its treasury the wealth of good things it has been giving us. It will remind us at every turn in the road, For value received, I promis to pay. The Class of 34 has taken for its motto He conquers who con