Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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T H E K Y O T E or two «of them reached the g nii uiteud of us. others arc bringing up the rear in the Junior clas«, and some dropped out altogether but a few were replaced by new recruits, who joined us later on. Tomorrow we shall receive our pa pels of honorable discharge, which is to say. our work and play at the Billings High School is over. But let us for the present forget this breaking up of the ranks and delight only in the joyousness of the occasion. Forget all sorrows and troubles. Forget the important derisions that tomorrow will bring. io with us into the past with the historian, and dream with us of the future with the prophet. Again in the name of the class of 1012 1 welcome you. not once, nor twice, nor even thrice, but twenty-four times, for T bear the greeting to you from each memlier «• f the class. Edward Scherer, ’12. President ’s A ddress Memliers of the faculty, fell vv students and friends: On behalf of the graduating class of BM2, I extend to each and every one of you a most hearty welcome. It is with a dood deal of regret. that we gather here tonight in this our last meeting as a class and as schoolmates. As we look back over the past four years we see work, ves, but it is not an unhappy memory for this worn has been a pleasure. We like to recall. too, the splemlid associations and fellowships, to -ay nothing of the good times, trips, and athletic battles in which metntiers of our class have participated. As we gather here tonight for the last time a class we feel that we may give a little advice not as one schoolmate to another hut as an elder person who has endured and conquered to a younger one who is as yet nither inexperienced in school life. This advice may lie summed up in one word and that is work. If you go into a football game work as if vour life depended upon it and if you are studying go at it with the same energy, for work you must, if you expect to receive any benefit of your labor. To the teachers who have made us realize this we are most grateful for their help and guidance- We wish to thank too, our schoolmates for their comradeship in all enterprises for wo know that without them our work as a class would lx impossible. Lastly but by no means least 22

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I II K K Y O T E Graduation Wrajqied close in clinging cloak of cloud-like grey The misty dawn steals silent on his way, A moment pa tins on the mountains high. Then flings his flaming pennants ‘cross the sky; Then back to Night’s dark realm he takes his way. lie is but herald of a perfect day. Faint as the last flush of the sunset’s gleam. The pink rose hud paaps from its cell of green; And day bv day its fragrance sweeter grows. And soon the, hud becomes a full-blown rose Growing in Identity with each warm June hour. The bud is promise of a perfect flower. A- dawn foretells the day; the bud, the flower: School days liehind vour graduation hour Have but prepared you for a sterner strife. Are but the promise of a broader life. Far wider fields do now await your winning, For this is not the end but the beginning, ’13. Salutatory Address Fellow Students and Friends of the Billings High School: The privilege has been given me of extending to you tlie greetings of the class of I find it a great honor to lx able to welcome you in the name of the largest class that ever graduated from the Hillings High School. If my words are weak and few, the welcome is never- theless a very warm one. The class of 1D12 has just finished a four years’ camjmign and is now assembled to rehearse its events. It has been 1 mt. a preparation for another campaign at the end of which I wish we might all meet again and say welcome. This seems quite im- probable so we shall have to console ourselves by making this such a hearty welcome that it will never 1m forgotten. The product of this four years campaign is a class of twenty-four warriors, experienced in all lines of business from athletics to preach- ing and journalism. Of this twenty-four we have an unlucky number of maidens, but since at least one of these is sure to lie a suffragette the hoodoo is broken. A great number entered this campaign but one 21

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I II E K V O T E i wish to thank the hoard of education for their generosity and in- terest in tiii school and in our Hass, especially during the last year. It will Is hut a short time now till the old class of 1012 will goto its reward, as alumni, never again to come together ns an organization, hut no matter where we go or what occupation we follow we will always have an abiding interest in the doings of the Billings High. Ogden F. Beecnau. History of Class 1912 What is History ? History may be defined as a written record of the lives and deeds of heroes, the events attending their brilliant career and the undying influence of such character upon the past, present and future life. The simple word history may not have meant very much to you. To some of us it means no end of needless toil and to others it is only a dry [Mistime. The cause for this lack of appreciation is due to hut one fact—that is, that we do not realize that we ourselves are makers of history. Hi w many of ns stop long enough to think even, that there an famous characters right in our midst ? We seldom appreciate any- thing which is not written or that which we cannot see plainly before Its. “Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is l orn to blush unseen. And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” The lives t»f this type of heroes shall fill the annals of this history. To those who, unconscious of their greatness and “who have conquered because they have endured” we would sing praise. It has fallen to me to mention a few of the facts concerning the members of the class of 11)12, who are destined to even greater eminence. To break away from the ancient procedure of “Praise after death,' I would prefer to lay laurels at their feet while living. To be ignorant of such live i to continue in childhood all your days. So 1m- not dis- heartened, Freshmen; Sophomores take courage and live; Pause a mo- ment. Juniors, for as the ancients sought the fountain of | erpetual youth, so may you not only seek but find the path to wisdom. When school opened in the autumn of 1008 the largest Freshman class which hud ever entered the Billings High School wa admitted. It was a brilliant class with keen wit and humor and clear compre- hending intellects. Why even the upperclassmen were eamjxdled to gaze wide-eyed at some of the wonders |»er formed by them. To the amaze- 23