Clarksville High School - Emanon Yearbook (Clarksville, MI)

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E WN Class History of '27 In the year of 1923 there entered within the walls of Clarksville High School the present Senior Class of 1927 along with its Freshmen classmates who since that time have left us for different occupations. We then numbered nineteen, and were namely: Clare Alderink, Bernie Bedell, Ivan Blough, Frank Braendle, Wesley Brooks, Frank Annable, Forrest Champlin, Minnie Cummings, Bertha Fulwiler, David Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Frances Livingston, Edwin McCaul, Adelia Nash, Lyle Norcutt, Robert Todd, Frank Transue, Alice Wallington, and Marguerite Sulli- van. After becoming accustomed to our new surroundings, we held our first class meeting at which we elected, Frank Transue as President, Marguerite Sullivan as Secretary and Treasurer, and Miss Booth as Class Advisor. Our parties throughout the year were live in number, and were held at the home of Alice Wallington, Frances Livingston, Frank Braendle, Marguerite Sulli- van, and a picnic held at Morrison Lake. Before the year was over we found our class had decreased three in number, Minnie Cummings, Bertha Fulwiler, and Edwin McCaul, having decided to leave us. We found upon entering the second lap of our journey, that we had gained a new classmate, Viverne Mourer had decided to join us for a short time, it indeed proved to be a short time as Viverne left us at the end of the first semester. Our officers for this year were: Adelia Nash, President, Frank Braendle, Secretary, Robert Todd, Treasurer, and Miss Simkins our Class Advisor. Our parties, consisting of two, were a coasting party, and one held at the home of Adelia Nash. Upon entering our junior year we found that Bemie Bedell, Wesley Brooks, Frances Livingston and Alice Wallington failed to join us, we were now just a dozen in number. Our class officers for this year were: Robert Hunter, President, Robert Todd, Secreary and Treasurer, and Superintendent R. L. Born, Class Advisor. The important events of this year were, the Lyceum Course, and the junior and Senior banquet, which we gave in honor of the Class of '26. Upon entering the last lap of our journey, we elected Frank Braendle, Presi- dent, Adelia Nash, Secretary, Robert Todd, Treasurer, and Supt. j. L. Kraft, Class Advisor. On the evening of the nineteenth of November, this year, we motored to Woodland where we surprised our former superintendent and wife, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Born. The junior and Senior banquet which the Seniors of '28 gave in our honor was another important event, which we all enjoyed very much. We also published the second Emanon ever published by the students of the Clarksville High School. The Senior play, the Full House, was played in Clarksville, Saranac and Freeport. Thus the history of the class of '27 has passed in work and fun, fun in which, we have enjoyed the companionship of our classmates, and work from which we have gained a knowledge which has made it possible for us to realize that tonight we are taking the greatest step that we have thus far taken, a step, that is leading us from the protecting walls of good old Alma Mater into a world that is strange to us and now at it's close, we wish to bid good-bye to our under-classmates, we'll meet you in the wide, wide world. 13

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E W Valedictory Parents, members of the school board, teachers, classmates and friends. As a break in the calm of our high school career comes tonight, graduation, the inter- minable crisis to which all learning leads, the goal to which everyone strives to attain but when reached we are loath to accept. Now tonight we find it compulsory to receive this honor and accept the strict views and ways of the outside world instead of the lenient judgment of high school days. During the past four years there has been many times when we wished to discontinue our school realtions and sever all school ties, but still that American determination and grit that has been instilled into us by the example and memory of our forefathers has driven us back to our tasks and tonight, regardless of all obstacles we have arrived at the goal to which we have striven. However, there are many whom we must thank besides ourselves for without the aid of our parents we might not have reached the goal. Therefore, to our parents, should go much of the honor so gained by us tonight for reaching the last stage of advancement in high school life for without their love and counsel in the difficult problems of life we would have been in vain. Members of the Board of Education, we wish to thank you for the interest you have taken in us and the curriculum arranged for us by you. To our friends we tender sincere thanks for their best wishes and may we, when we have left high school life behind forever, still have and cherish those friendships that were ours this year. . To our teachers may we give thanks for helping us to reach this partial stage of per- fection and we hope that our presence has been considered by them, in the past four years not a detriment but an advancement to Clarksville High School. And last but not least, to our classmates we hope that in the walks of life each may choose, he will find as true and tried friendships as have existed between the class of '27, Yet with this success so gained by the diligence and faithful study comes many pangs of sorrow for we are leaving behind forever the first stage of our preparatory life and our many school activities we have participated and gloried in, also the numerous friendships we have formed .while in school. Now classmates as we once and for all time leave high school life behind to enter the daily routine of life may we always receive aid as in the past four years and may our high school life not have been in vain but have fitted us to meet 1ife's trials and may success come to us as individuals with the aid of the Divine Ruler as it has to us as the class of '27. -Robert Todd. Salutatory Parents, friends, members of the school board and faculty: It is with greatest of pleasure that we welcome you here tonight to enjoy with us remembrances of the good times that have occurred in our school career and to share with us the hopes of the future in as much that fate deal kindly with us although we have prepared thus far to encounter those knocks that are sure to come hand in hand with fortune. So we have invited you here tonight to hear bits of our past portrayed and pipe dreams of the future. At this time we wish to extend to you our thanks for the confidence you have manifest and the support you have given us in order that we might be prepared to realize our dreams of the past. Thus we extend to you a most hearty welcome. -Robert Hunter. 12 -

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E WN Class Will We, the Senior Class of '27 of Clarksville High School in the county of Ionia, and State of Michigan, hereby declare this to be our last will and testament, here- by revoking and making void all former wills or promises made by us at any time heretofore or mayhap, carelessly spoken, one to the other, as the thoughtless wish of an idle hour. After the payment of our just debts and graduation expenses, we give, be- queath, and devise the following: To the juniors we bequeath our ability to argue. To the Sophomores, we give our high marks. To the Freshmen, we devise our dignified conduct. Our President, Frank Braendle, leaves the presidents responsibility to who- ever is capable of the office. Robert Todd bequeaths his Valedictory to Frank Sullivan. May all the Fresh- men profit by it. Adelia Nash leaves her winning way with the boys to Helen Lenhard. Frank Transue devises his ability to argue to Bradley Dillenbesk. David Hoffman leaves his good natured disposition to whoever is lacking one. Frank Annable leaves his way with the ladies to Merle Frey. Robert Hunter leaves his ability to analyze to james Martin. Marguerite Sullivan bequeaths her pleasant smile and cheerful disposition to Edna Birchard. Clare Alderink leaves his captain's ability to any one capable of the position. Forrest Champlin bequeaths his mischievous nature to Gilbert Hansen, wish- ing him no bad luck. Ivan Blough leaves his duties as yell master to Elwood Sullivan. Lyle Norcutt leaves his ability to patch tires to Ivan Wickham. We appoint the Faculty executor of this last will and testament. Signed: LYLE NORCUTT, Senior Class '27, Witness: The Student Body. President's Address The days of our boyhood pleasures are drawing to a close, a closing that will carry with it our school days, our schoolmates, our teachers. Still we will have the cherished friendship of our friends- in Clarksville and vicinity, who have put forth every ounce of energy to bring about a successful completion of our schooling. Our destiny in worldly affairs is unknown. Many different walks in life, placed before us for our selection and adoption, are baffling, tempting and terrorizing. We are meeting with perhaps one of the biggest problems in life, how to spend the years of our lives to get the best retums. 14