Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Foreword And in twenty years they all came back. In twenty years or more; And everyone said, How tall they've grown! •'or they’ve been to the .akes, and the Torrid one. And they drank their health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; A nd everyone said, ‘ we only live It e. too, shall go to sea in a sieve. ” — .ear Though wc arc not going to sen in a sieve, our future is as uncertain ns if we were. When we do return, we hope that our welcome will be as warm and the dumplings «is good as those of the poem. The Class of 1925 offers in this little hook fin out- line of its history and a review of its activities. We trust that its pages may serve to evoke in later years happy memories of our life in D. H. S.

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Prologue ••Now have come the shining days IVhen field and wood are robed anew. And o'er the world a silver haze Mingles the emerald uith the blue. The day looks new, a coin unworn. Freshly stamped in heavenly mint: The sky keeps on its look of morn: Of age and death there is no hint. ” “Blessed is he who expects little, hut works us if he expected much. Sufficient unto the day is the good thereof. I have invested myself in the present moment in the things near at hand, in the things all may have on equal terms. If one sets one’s heart on the exceptional, the far-off — on riches, on fame, on power—the chances iire he will he disappointed; he will waste his time seeking a short cut to these things. There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice—no piiper currency, no promises to pay, hut the gold of real service.” —John Burroughs “An Outlook on Life”