Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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Katherine Waite “A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men.” Forest Walrath “A solemn youth, with sober phiz. Who eats his grub and minds his biz. Track team. 1907-1908-1909. Class Treasurer, 1907 1908 1909. Business Manager of Annual. Senior Play. 1909 Class Speaker. Lena Walker “A laugh is worth a thousand groans in any market.” Glee Club. 1906. Girls’ Octette, 1907-1908-1909. Mixed Chorus. 1907-1908. 9

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Jennie Sanders Tis beauty that cloth of it make woman proud: Tis virtue that cloth make them most admired: ‘Tis modesty that makes them seem divine.” Ralph Wagoner “W hen words are scarce I hey re seldom spent in vain. Base Ball team. 1907-1908-1909. Track team. 1908-1909. Manager Track team, 1908-1909. Foot Ball learn. 1907-1908. Captain Foot Ball team, 1908. Basket Ball team. 1908-1909. Senior Basket Ball team. 1909. Senior Play. 1909 Alberta Stone “The inner side of every cloud. Is always bright and shining; I always, therefore, turn my clouds about. I'o show the silver lining. 18

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VALEDICTORY » “THE BUILDERS.” All are architects of Fate. Working in these walls of Ti ne. Through all the past ages the inhabitants of the world have been working and now we step upon the scene and enjoy the sum of their labors. Everything that has gone before enters into our life and time. How many thousands have laid down their lives to make our comforts possible! How much bloodshed has there been! How many have perished or suffered in prison or dungeon that we might enjoy liberty of speech and freedom of action! Consider the number of people who have aided in producing and gathering, or perhaps manufacturing and transporting some little article for which you pay only a few cents. Wherever you go multitudes have prepared the way. protected and saved you trouble and drudgery. However nothing of value is free. We must pay the price the world demands; we must give of our personal service. “Can our indebtedness ever be paid?” says the worker. “The world owes me a living.” says the shirker. There could not exist a more erroneous idea. We are placed here with a bread winning problem before us whose process of solution is the building of individual character. Nature endows us with the raw material for that building and the success of the finished structure lies with us. Therefore it behooves us to build wisely. When Nestor stood before the Greek generals and counseled attack upon Troy, he said. “The secret of victory is in getting food ready.” This well applies to the preparation necessary for our life work. We should make at the beginning a right inventory of the gifts which Nature supplies, as no carpenter knows what tools are in the box until he lifts the lid and unwraps one instrument after another. So the instruments of the soul must be unfolded by education. No building of a city without can compare in beauty and richness with the building process of the soul within. Our building may be a lordly castle or only a thatched roof cabin, yet each worker putting fidelity into brick and stone will find by so doing that he has carved his own character into beauty beyond that of priceless gems. How many who have lived failures and died in misery might have achieved happiness and sue cess, had they but used wisdom and forethought in the choice of their lifework. Wc should work in the right place no matter what the sacrifice, for no one can do his best until he does that for which he was created. He must pull with, not against the current and must work for the love of il if he would win success. Earth knows no tragedy like the death of the soul’s ideals. The vessel may lose its sails and masts but if it only keeps its guiding star, the harbor may be reached. What could be more painful than to discover after many failures that we arc fixed in a groove in which wc 20