Comstock High School - Corral Yearbook (Comstock, MI)

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DUANE BELLISLE Sonic think the world was made for fun and frolic And so do I! RALPH ALLEN Little, hut oh! my! A KM ON LEE CUDDINGTON . I gentian :n. every inch of him. MARGARET BELL Modest as her blushint shows, llappy as her smiles disclose. I-RANCES MILLER One so meek can do no tvrong. RICHARD BOVEN Formed on the good old plain, A true and brave and dozen right honest man. ROBERT E. SKELTON Clever men are good but they are not the best. GERALD GALLAGHER The honors of tear to its heroes go. EDWIN J. POLLARD Xothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. RICHARD O. WHIPPLE We know what zee are, but know Xot zehat zee may be.

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CORNELIUS A. SMITH The hero should he always tall, you know. ALICE VANDE STREEK Worry has made her thin. CLARENCE H. WINTERBURN Down hut not out. RAY LESTER STROH hit7 of fun and mischief, too. RUTH G. VAN METER .1 good-hearted and diligent maid is she. DICK VAN OOSTERUM lie who serves well and speaks not. merits more Than they who clamor loudest at the door. EVERETT FAHEY The more they looked The more the wonder grew That one smalt head could carry el 11 he kmw. RICHARD HEYSTEK All great men are dead and dying And don't feel well myself. H. L. WILLETT JR. .1 lion among the ladies. COLIN MILLER A sense of humor, a sense of wit. and plenty of nonsense.

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HOWARD MONTAGUE .}rcat thoughts like great deeds need no trumpet. VALEDICTORY Howard Montague “Good Work Brings the Greatest Happiness. Ladies and Gentlemen: Finishing high school at the present time, we are very fortunate to have had the benefit of a good system of education. Every city. town, or community in America has good schools placing within the reach of all the advantages of public school education. The world’s progress is accomplished, not by steady, stately strides, but by leaps and bounds, separated by periods of comparative quiet and apparent retrogression. In the same manner development of our educational system has taken place. Periods of greatest business activity usually have been followed, only several years later, by educational progress. It is our good fortune to have gone through high school during one of these periods of educational progress. As the result of modern ideas of education our time in school has been well adapted to the things that will best enable us to advance along lines which will ultimately bring happiness into the work we find ourselves doing. Instead of making the pupils fit the courses, the courses have been made to fit the pupils. Because we have been permitted to select in part our studies, we have spent part of our time working at things in which we have had a vital personal interest entirely apart from their educational value. Everywhere today there are people who apparently have the idea that the world owes them a living, and they are out to collect it. They have no notion to carry on any useful occupation while they are going through life. Properly planned education should stimulate every person in doing some kind of work which is of the most interest to that individual. Happiness through work is the creed of our time. Everyone wants work now. The more work, the more happiness; the better work, the more happiness. Our present system of education has taught us that in position there is wealth and that in work there is dignity; furthermore, the better work people do the happier they are while doing it. In the Atlantic Ocean there is a stream flowing from the Gulf of Mexico northward. If we cast a bottle into that stream near the coast of Florida it would probably eventually reach England; but several years would have passed before it got there, and no one could tell what part of the British Isles it would reach. A steamer, directed by the intelligence of a trained mind, can make the same voyage in a week. The steamer is like the man who knows definitely what he wants in life and goes steadily in that direction, something the drifting bottle or a man of indecision could never do. With the closing of this occasion today we cease to exist as a high school class and it becomes my duty to say farewell. We say farewell to the Board of Education which has so ably directed the school system. To the members of the faculty we say farewell. They have been our good friends as well as our instructors. To our parents we do not say farewell, but we wish to thank them for making possible for us a good public school education. Classmates, we may say farewell, but there is no farewell among us. As we go our different ways in our lives to come, we will always be held together by the common pos- session of the principles ami ideals taught in this school. (HI