Comstock High School - Corral Yearbook (Comstock, MI)

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PROPHECY By Jessie Bus house. As we were contemplating the future of the members of our class, one evening, the radio announcer from station F-A-T-E said: “One week from tonight. Lady Mysteria will be at this station. During the coming week, write her any questions you wish answered. She will broadcast the answers to the individuals asking the questions. Accordingly, we wrote the names of all our classmates, and asked her to tell the future of each one. We eagerly awaited the time when she would come on the air. At last the moment arrived, and Lady Mvsteria’s voice came float- ing in. After a few introductory remarks, she began. As stenographer clever, will Eleanor Koenig take The notes in a court room, with n’cr a mistake. In Washington, Margaret Mac will stand. She’ll become the “First lady of the land.” Thelma Horten from her powder n’er will depart. And now she is found teaching other belles the art. Hob Coates, as a huckster, has a very good voice. He always could make a great deal of noise. As president of the U. of M. Charles Chrisman will be one of our noted men. In a country school about a hot fire, Is Jessie and her students; she’s attained her desire. Helen Willett, I learn, shall become traffic cop. When handsome young men drive, her sig- nal says “stop”. Walter Kenyon travels to all the best schools, Giving lectures on the “Wisdom of Fools.” Four pups and a parrot will Evelyn own, With these as companions, she’ll live all alone. THEN SHE In times past Beryl Learn was class mu- sician. But now she has risen and married a phy- sician. Boh Allen is leading a very big band. Which soon will have travelled all o’er the land. In the V’. W. C. A. Margaret Beckwith teaches The girls how to lengthen and strengthen ►heir reaches. To Kutli McCarty eight will propose. But which she will take nobody knows. Dean Lewis sadly in need of a friend. Will go to live by the water on which poor fish depend. “Advice to the I-ovelorn” Grace Cramer does write. It appears in the “Gazette every Saturday night. Of all the teachers Carroll Abbey took notes. And now lie’s editor of the Saturday Eve- ning Post SIGNED OFF. W3 toi— ■OEg 13

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 SALUTATORY By Carroll Abbky Parents, Classmates and Friends: The class of 29 welcomes you here tonight. We are about to enter a new life; a vastly different life; one in which we wi'l be cast upon our own resources. Some of us will go on to college, others will go to work; in either case we will Ik» dependent upon ourselves. It will be up to us, as individuals, to decide what we will make of ourselves. It will he up to us to decide how much we will get out of our college studies, or the occupation we will follow, and how far we will go in the world. We realize that our success will be a continuation of our work here. If we have formed habits of earnest thought and study, and of hard work, those habits will stay with us; but if we have formed habits of indolence and procrastination, they, too. will remain; and only by the greatest effort will they he overcome. Commencement marks the point at which we have succeeded in finishing a portion of our preparation for life’s work. School is not merely a preparation for life's broader field of action; it is more, it is de- velopment and growth, and while development continues all through life, the period of most rapid mental growth is during school days. Day by day. and year by year, our minds have been developing and now. if we have improved those opportunities placed before us. we are ready to leave school and meet successfully the problems of life. The burden of our troubles will soon be upon our own shoulders, instead of upon our parents, who have borne this heavy burden for years, who have kept us in school in spite ot the many sacrifices they have been required to make to do it. We are better fit to grapple with life’s difficulties and hardships armed with a high school diploma, and the experience and knowledge which it represents; than we would have been had we quit school, sav in the eighth grade and gone to work. We owe a great debt of gratitude to our parents tor making it possible for us to graduate here tonight. We also wish to express our appreciation to our teachers, past and present, who have had our welfare ,1. mind and have piloted us through school with patience and foresight. ■ i . leave, Comstock High as graduates, but we will return as alumni to renew ocl friendships and review the scenes of many a happy day spent during our high school career. The time has come for us. as a class. part: hu, ot.r friendships, formed during the Past four years, or perhaps longer, will live on. and we will always have a tender place m our hearts for our Alma Mater. Comstock High s so IK CZ 1« - ——: 12

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 THE NEEDS OF THE HOUR By Walter Kenyon Classmates and Friends: Harry Emerson Fosdick says in the May American: “America faces the responsi- bility of handling more power than ever before was entrusted to any nation.” This fact is not a proper cause of boastfulness; it presents, rather, a serious problem. One who travels widely must observe that there are two kinds of disaster in the world; one comes from the suffering of destitution, the other from the misuse of power. One of the hardest moral problems which anybody ever faces is the handling of power. All observers have recognized this. From Jesus, emphasizing the difficulty of getting a rich man into the kingdom of heaven, to Emerson, saying, “It is bard to carry a full cup,” the men of vision have feared the tragedy of misused plenty.” As we look into the future a great problem confronts us, greater than any problem ever confronting a people. We stand aghast at this vivid picture and ask, “What is the Need of the Hour? No age ever believed more than our own in education, in the ethical, in life. No age ever demanded more imperiously the best that education, ethical living and the richest ex- perience of life can give. “Every life should be shaped according to what a man hath.” The test by which to determine how to shape a man’s life according to what he hath is applied through education. Educate all up to the measure of their capability; and while the many trained up to their measure, turn contented aside to the useful and honorable pursuits of labor and business, the few who are especially gifted to pass to the more arduous duties of professional life and world leadership. The men who are conducting the large enterprises for the betterment of the hard con- ditions of life are clear-visioned, warm-hearted men of education. The men who have made two blades of wheat grow where one blade grew before, and so have increased the value of farm products millions of dollars a year; the men who have gathered the snow irom the mountains and from them sent sparkling water coursing through the deserts of the west until now they breathe sweet incense and bring forth rich fruits in their season; in every department of the world’s work, the men who are doing the work worth while are the educated men. Upon the right culture of man’s moral nature all depends. For it is in this that ix wer to choose and reject the wrong resides. No genius, no industry, no attainments can compensate for the lack of moral character. The needs of the hour are trained men in every walk of life. We need virile, discip- hnd. symmetrically developed men. These are needed, not alone among those who have en- tered the learned professions, but among the tradesmen and laborers in every line of human endeavor. Education helps everyone, from the king upon his throne to the peasant in his little cottage far separated from the rest of humanity. No matter what trade or occupation one may have he should never forget that mental culture is one of the most important things of lite, and so classmates, we should never overlook an opportunity to take a step up- ward in this direction that we may build for character and not for fame. 9° 14