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

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g The Pergus Stall Jtlembers of je jf ergu £?ear poob Poarb anb H taff Margaret Wan , Editor-in-Chid Beverly Frlelds. Humor Brace Surprenant. Humor Charles Illc. Special Xews Editor Walter Mondale. Business and Advertising Manager Robert Merrill, Athletics Richard .Manning'. Dramatics and Forensics Thomas Melveown, Senior Editor Curtis Barnes, Cartoonist The Fergus Year Book Staff and Board wish luck” to those who are follow- ing in our footsteps, and hope that they may profit by our past experiences. We have put our best efforts into this book and we trust that we have produced an original publication worthy of the time and care put into it. The present Board has tried to make this book one that will be valuable to the students of this high school m future years. The pictures of your societies and the snapshots of your friends are familiar to you now, but m years to come, one forgets many times, and then it is that you, no longer students, will want to recall old scenes and old friends. With this thought in mind the Staff presents the Year Book of the Class of 1925.

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W )t Principal's Jtlessage To the Graduating' Class and the Other Friends of Fergus County High School: If true that adversity is a valuable test of one’s character, then we believe we, the Fergus County High School, have passed the test satisfactorilv and have earned the additional honor of 'cum laude ’ (with praise). Although you of the class of 1925 found a fine new building' in which much of your work has been done, for the remainder of it you shared the Tar-paper Palace’ and for one year the slightly better transformed dormitory. And the atmosphere, which is of far more consequence, was becoming tense with mur- murs of discontent because of unfavorable crop seasons, the rise of prices result- ing from world war, the tightening of money market which reached the climax when dissatisfied depositors forced the banks to close th eir doors permanentlv. The reduction of your spending money, the reduction of teachers’ salaries resulted m big changes each year m the personnel of the teaching corps, and this year, the 25 per cent reduction of the number of teachers. All these conditions were considered adverse. Neve rthele ss we have survived. We have achieved the distinction of being ranked with the best high schools of twenty-five of the most progressive states. Those graduates, who have ranked highest in scholarship, in spirit of service, in character and in leadership during the past four years, are among the 8,000 mem- bers of the National Honor Society, equaling the best products of the best high schools m America. We have sped through four years without seeing far ahead or appreciating all that we have seen, yet all has come out well. We are here in good running order. We have with Dickens learned that But for some trouble and sorrow, we should never know half the good there is about us. ’ Leighton tells us Adversity is the diamond-dust Heaven polishes the jewels with. If we are made of the right stuff, then our value should be more easily discerned by the world about us because of these four years together. From this experience and the ideas gained from the experience of others, let us gather renewed courage for the tasks of today and the unforeseen ones of tomorrow. Thousands of years ago Confucius said, Our greatest glory is not m never falling but in rising' every time we fall. ’ With faith in God, our Father, let us believe with H enry Wood, Wha tsoever is best will come, if we do our part. Marden, after experiences that would completely discourage some believes No man fails who does his best, for if the critical would ignore him, his labor is wei g'hed in th e scales of Omniscient Justice. Uninterrupted successes at the beginning of a career are dangerous.” He says, Beware of the first great triumph. It may prove a failure. M any a man has been ruined by overconn- dence born of his first victory.” We trust that by our association we have not merely passed the tests each applies to another, but that we have aided one another to live better, truer, nobler lives. See with Robert Louis Stevenson, that It is not enough to have earned a livelihood — the earning itself should have been serviceable to mankind.’ That each of you may be fully successful and happy in doing his part of the vv orld' s work is the sincere wish of Your friend, VERNON GRIFFITH MAYS.

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