Fergus County High School - Fergus Yearbook (Lewistown, MT)

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“Principali jfte eiage In the Annual published by the class of 1918 there appeared the following trib- ute, entitled Our High School. But yesterday she stood intact, her gray imposing mass overlooking all the town. Her halls and rooms were filled with boys and girls and teachers. Her lab- oratories, shops and classrooms were well equipped. And now all these are gone and the walls — blackened, crumbling and stark — stand out against the sky. Yet our high school is not dead, for her foundation is not of stone. It is laid in the hopes and aspirations of the present and future boys and girls of Fergus county. Against such a base, no storms or fires shall ever prevail. Therefore, let us take courage and resolutely face the brighter day, when from the ashes, our high school shall rise again, more glorious and splendid, to give even a broader vision to those who then shall throng her rooms and halls. When these lines were written, dastardly incendiarism had caused gloom to enshroud the educational hopes of old and young, but through the depression there flashed the promise of a better day. That day has already begun to dawn. One- half of our new high school now proudly crowns the hill, and not many years will pass before the entire structure is completed. New departments, new students, new teachers now crowd the building. Each year ever increasing numbers, we are no more to teach, pass on. This year you boys and girls, nearly one hundred strong, will leave your Alma Mater. I say boys and girls, for when three score and ten years have come to you, if you have lived aright, you will be glad to have your friends say that health and peace of mind have kept your hearts warm; that you wear no brow of gloom; are not borne down with age, but still, in heart, are boys and girls. When these years come, and may they come to all, the tide of time will fall back and tell you of your schooltime days, when the fair, the kind and the true found life, but the false heart found no friends, no tongues to praise. These days bring rich gifts to age, and when you shall cease to think of them, your fire has burnt low, and your light has gone out. You have been taught here m the hope that the Fergus County High School will help to make you of use to your friends and to the world; will give you faith m all that is good and true; make you wage war on all that is bad, and lead you to seek work ; for this you must seek and do if you would have a good name, wealth, a home, a charge to keep, or a trust to serve. May you go forth with a bold true heart to seek the work you are to do, mindful that the hours of work run through each day and that God's great law of life is m the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread. The things worth doing are all shot through with threads of golden light, the light of mind and art, which shines each day more brightly and dims all the old by some new found light as the years go by. Some of you may hope for fame, but if you doubt that God rules, have not trust and faith, you may well fear your fate. New books, not old coins, keep charge of fame. Look well to books, for through them the world's best thoughts and deeds now speak. In all the walks of life good folk are found. They own the real world and do all its best work. The right start at the right time is the main part of what there is to Well done at last. In the words, Well Done, as you pass out and on, your Alma Mater , whose strength lies in results that flow from such as you and those who are to come, now gives you Godspeed through all the years. F. L. CUMMINGS, Principal

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F. Ii. Cummings, Principal School Board—W. D. Symmes, President; 0. W. Belden, Yice President; T. C. Sherman, Secretary; C. R. McClave. Lewlstnwn; A. R. Pox, Kertclflll Amanda O. Swift, County Superintendent of Schools; J. H, Morrow, Moore; Jj L. Cummings, Principal

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THE ANNUAL STAFF Above is a picture of the Annual staff, Who worked both day and night On pictures, notes, and writeups, too, So they’d turn out our Annual just right! We see the shining face of Trask, Who cured the paper's ills. While Art and K. ” collected coin To pay up all the bills ! Ethel exchanged with other schools, And gave them our paper’s views; Ellery wrote the literary dope. And Zelda recorded society news! Alma was Bill’s little helper, And debate was told by Helen. “ Dobbie ” wrote up the features, While Crego Senior news kept tellin Miner wrote of athletics. And to this a word I’ll add — Together they made the best Annual Old Fergus has ever had. M. A. 5, H.M.