East High School - Sunrise Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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Midyear Class of 30 For four long, happy years the members of the midyear class of 1930 have been studying diligently in order that we might be worthy to receive the diplomas which are the reward of hard work. There are none of us without many pleasant memories of East High to brighten the broad highway of life. Our only wish is that we may have left something of value behind for those who come after us. When we entered high school as freshmen, we walked in the clouds for sometime until we were put into our places by the upper classmen Nevertheless we were glad to be here at all, so we patiently bided our time until we were advanced to the lofty pinnacle of the sophomores. Here we began at once to speak in foreign tongues and to babble of advanced mathematics and other weighty subjects designed to confound the juvenile freshmen. As we reached the third of the four great steps, we began to wonder whether our class would live up to the standards of former classes, but we hid our worries beneath a mask of gaiety. Then at last we were seniors. Tossing aside our worries, we decided that ours was to be the best class East High ever had. It is for the world in general to decide whether or not we were successful. We are very proud of our representation in all of the various fields of athletics, scholarship, music, and art. We are not less proud of our senior activities—a successful play, “The Beneficent Bear” bv Goldini; class day and kiddies day, much enjoyed by the rest of the school; and finally, a delightful banquet. It is hard to remember that on January twenty-eight, 1930, seventeen proud young people stood on the platform and received their diplomas, and that we must say “vale” to our school days. SARA GRACE RIETHMILLER. 19

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Class Officers Brown, Fay ................................. President Forsberg, Carl ........................ Vice President Morrison, Kathryn ................ Secretary-Treasurer Commencement Speakers Bernard, Verne ........................ Listen Murray, Donald ..................... Listening Riethmiller, Sara Grace ..... Vocal Selections 18

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 VERNE BERNARD Ring Committee 4— Commencement Speaker 4. Though learn’d, well bred, and though well bred, sincere, Modestly bold, and humanly severe. —Pope FAY BROWN Glee Chib 1, 2, 3, 4— Prom Chairman 4— Class President 4— Class Vice President 3— Class Play 4— Girls’ Chorus 3— Double Quintet 3. God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth. That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. —Longfellow JOHN J. DeTUERK Football 3, 4— Track 3, 4— Basketball Manager 3—East Hi-Y 4— Class President 2— Water Polo 4— Swimming 4— Class Play 4— President of East Hi-Y 4— Wrestling 3— Chairman Senior Prom 3. Born for success, he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes. —Emerson CARL WILLIAM FORSBERG Glee Club 2— Basketball 4— Class President 3— Class Vice President 4— East Hi-Y 4— Class Basketball 2. Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom courage, Temper to that, and unto all success. —Sir J. Denham EDWARD WILLIAM GEHRLEIN Football 2— Senior Class Play 4. He was a man, take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again. —Shakespeare. 20