Croswell Lexington High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Croswell, MI)

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OOCZDOOOC=DOOOC=DOCXX=XXXXZZXXXXZ=DOOOCZDOOOCIZXXXXZZXXXXI=»OCXXZ= OOOC=DOO 1917 SENIOR BOARD Editor .... Albert Halverson Business Manager Ivan Graham Advertising Manager Raymond Benedict STAFF Assistant Editor Iva Robb Class Editor Earl Hall Society Verle Rice Athletics ...... Roy Williams Art and Jokes Kenneth Quail Calendar .... Ethel Godfrey

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“1 TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1917 I take this opportunity to congratulate you upon your completion of the high school course, and as your commencement is at hand I trust that each of you have selected a high ideal towards which you will struggle. The youth who does not look up will look down and the spirit that does not soar is destined, perhaps, to grovel. You may long for some thing or place which you will never obtain or reach, for life never fulfills all the expectations of youth; the future never pays all that the present may promise, as nature holds back part of our wages lest we quit work. Life’s work is before you and I urge you to infuse into the purpose of of your various employments and professions of life, no matter how humble they may be, the sense of beauty and harmony, and you will be transformed from an artisan to an artist. The discontent you feel with the work you may be compelled to do comes from your doing it in the spirit of a drudge. Do it in the spirit of an artist, with a perception of the beauty which inheres all honest work, and the drudgery will disappear in delight. Always remem- ber it is the spirit in which we work and not the work itself, ever so humble it may be, which lends dignity to labor. It is natural that you should, at this time, be ambitious to take up life’s toils, as ambition is nature’s spur that makes one struggle with destiny and one’s ideal determines the character of the life. Ambition without character must ever prove fatal to its possessor. We, your teachers and school-mates, have enjoyed the association with you and we will miss your presence. You are going out into life, form new associates, and we trust, that your character will be such as to send out good influences, for, as the blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, no one can tell what becomes of their influence and example that roll away from their ken in their perilous mission. You have been faithful to the tasks of your school life and your friends trust that you will continue to show the same spirit toward the new duties and tasks you are about to take up. Very truly yours, G. E. POWERS, Supt. XXXDdZDOOOC XXXXZZXXDOCIZ)oooc xxxxzmxDooc 3000CZZX