Fond Du Lac High School - Life Yearbook (Fond Du Lac, WI)

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COMMENCEME T ADDRESS Friends, wc, the mid-year graduating class of 1933, welcome you to our com- mencement exercises. To most of us graduation means getting out in the world, and after we have been out in the world, we like to grade ourselves by how successful we have been. Perhaps, success is too wide a subject to discuss here, nevertheless, every class would like to leave high school with something to work for in the future. And after all, why cannot this something be succuss? Everyone has his ideas on obtaining success, but generally success can be laid to five things: Work, honesty, education, ambition, and health. Anyone who wants to get ahead must be willing to work, and by work I mean workinghard toward a definite end. How often we hear it said that a certain person is lucky, yet anyone who has good luck has worked for it. Luck is really seizing the opportunity that presents itself. The basic habits of work have been laid in high school. Work is half willing and half doing, but willing and doing must always go together, for as james J. Hill, the great railroad magnate, said, You cannot build a reputation on things you are going to do. Honesty always has been and always will be one of the standards of the ages. No man has ever failed because he was honest, anyone who is dishonest is playing a losing game. Consciousness of honesty brings serenity to the mind and is itself success. No one has been or ever will be able to disprove the fact that honesty is the best policy . There are any number of ways of gaining an education, yet all are closely related. Education does not merely mean learning in school but learning in Life with the world as the school. For a person striving for success, education never ends, the wise man is the man who knows he has much to learn, for as Dickens says, Every failure will teach a man something if he is willing to learn. And the wise man is the successful man. Ambition - a football team desires to win its games, the team that knows what it is doing and what it is working for succeeds, so do men. The aimless man never reaches his goal, the determined man does. Ambition furnishes the incentive to success, but am- bition must be tempered by patience. A famous English poet once said that the man who adds bit by bit gains more than he who tries to get everything at once. Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement, The first wealth is health, only serves to bring out more the importance of this fifth pillar cf success. To do his best, one must have his body in the best of condition so it will functien equally with his brain. No one can sacrifice health without impairing his chance for success. Perhaps there are other and better rules for success than these, however, any rules of success, whatever they may be, hinge upon one little word - you. No one ' says Emerson, can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. After all success is not what we learn or what we possess, but the use we make of it. Fellow Classmates, each one must decide his own rules for success, but in deciding we might bear in mind the words of Benjamin Franklin: God helps them that help themselves. Good, better, best, never let is rest 'Till your good is better and your better best. john Corn Page 22

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Roi' Rainy VIOLA RAUTENBERG KATHRYN RICE Glee Club 2 RAY RICKLEFS Scholarship Roll 1, 2, 3 French Club 2 2 33 3 Fo .IA-F.A',. g.. ,, Classical Club l, 2, 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 De Oratoribus 2, 3 Fomlulurian 2, 3 laiuiuarrc Rosa' German Club 1, 2, 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 Science Club 2, 3 Scholarship Roll 3 ExIi,nA Scuweaitn Glee Club 2, 3 Basketball l Mortar Board 2, 3 M.uuoN SIIEA Glee Club l Mortar Board 1 Basketball 1 Woomiow tl. Sizm Classical Club 1, 2 Band I, 2, 3 Orchestra 1, 2 Class Basketball 1, 2 Flillllllltllftlfl 2, 3 Scholarship Roll 1 IRMA STIQI-MANY Mortar Board l, 2, 3 Class Basketball 2, 3 Soccer 3 Speedball 3 Baseball 3, A.F.A. 3 Doitornv Tltummuk Glee Club 2 Dramatic Club 2, 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 De Oratoribus 3 Baseball l Basketball I GMI. Wort-is Mortar Board 3 orball 1, 2, 3, F 2, Basketball l, 2. 3, UF., 2 3 Baseball 1: 2, 3 VICTOR RoY ELIZABETH REGAN Glee Club 1, 2, 3 President 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 French Club 2 German Club 2 GLADYS Roiuinacmsn Mortar Board 2 3 Basketball I Mancakm Scuwotex' Scholarship Roll l, 2, 3 Basketball l, 2, 3 F Debating 2, 3 De Oratoribus 2, 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 Classical Club 1, 2, 3 CHARLES SHANK Football 2, 3, F 3 Dick SILAH Band l, 2, 3 Orchestra 2 Class Basketball Z Baseball l, 2 Goiinow K. SMITH JUNE SMIIII Frcnch Club 2, 3 Band l, 2 Orchestra 1, 2 Basketball 2, 3 Football 2. 3 German Club l, 2, 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 Science Club 2, 3 Scholarship Roll l, 3 A.F.A. 3 lVlAURICli STIIAUB GILBILRT Ii. SUIIIJINANIJ Doitormr VALIN Glee Club 2 Mortar Board 2, 3 Classical Club 1 EDGAR WRIGIII' Science Club . Band 1 Modern Language l, 2, 3 Class Basketball 1, 2 LA Rumi WEGNLR Mortar Board 2, 3, A.F.A.' 3 Baseball I, 2, 3 Basketball 1, 2, 3 Soccer 1, 2, 3 IIORAIN li ZUIzLKli Scholarship Roll l, 2, 3 Mortar Board 2, 3 Basketball 2, 3 Fomlulnvian 3 Baseball 1

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Jane Koll Claire Salzman Valvdictoriafz Sulutatorian SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP RQLL Lila Berndt Mildred Cale Gwendolyn Couse Dorothy Dilling Dorothy Finger Marie Frenud Dorothy Gardenier Esther I-lass Esther Holman Burt johnson Edwin jones Hazel Joseph Betty Koester 1952 - 1935 jane Koll Margaret McCormick Peggy McCoskrie Kathryn McIntosh Helen Mcnzel Marion Mills Nettie Ann Mitchell Robert Promcn Claire Salzmann Margaret Smith Jean Tack Marion Tomlinson P