Gettysburg High School - Cannon Aid Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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G.H.S. 1925 every standpoint, and we hope that the coming classes will have equal success. We must mention again the athletic activities: Our class furnished a better part of the men for football, basket- ball and baseballg and any college should be proud to count any of our athletes on their entrance lists, for their ability is supreme. Then there is the G-Club which is made up of practically all '25 men. The Girls' Council has done wonders for High School and the organization is maintained by girls of '25, The Class of '25 furnished members to fill the leading roles in the athletic play Adam and Eva and the musical comedy Once in a Blue Moon. The Senior play Just Out of College, was a roaring success, and was enacted entirely by our classmates. Now since the race is won, that race in which we have been a contestant for the last four years, our day's work is done in dear old G. H. S. We can never have those happy old times again. We must start all over as Freshmen, either at college or out in the business world, to be served with its helpings of Success and Failures. But let us partake of this destined Success or Failure and swallow it so that courage and sincere perseverance may digest the worst of them. Now that we part and will never again assemble here as the Class of 1925, let us not forget as we leave what G. H. S. stood for, so that we may carry the ideals of her teachings with us for ever and ever. BENDER, '25, Dax ,gl 5' ,ral

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G.H.s. 1925 Class HISIOIY In the fall of the year 1921 we entered Gettysburg High School as an class of some seventy scared, doubtful, bewildered and nerve- racked Freshmen. We had formed, each of us, an idea as to how High School was and ought to be run, but, well, we found out dif- ferently as most Freshmen have. Our class was strong in num- ber but weak in mind in the eyes of the upperclassmen, who would continually remind usof the fact. But nevertheless in the ranks of our class there are Athletes, Musicians, Poets, Actors, Orators and Students, who needed only a few years in G. H. S. to claim some talent in their respective professions. The Sophomore year helped to make us closer friends as class- mates, it also brought out our athletes, and positions on the scrub teams were efiiciently filled by the boys of '25. At the end of the year we were glad when the finals were finished, but we hated the idea of not meeting in the assembly room again until the summer vacation was ended. The Junior year saw not a few of our classmates shine in ath- letics, music, and all the schools' activities. During the year the Hi-Y was enriched with many new members from our class, who should during the next year lead that organization. The musical comedy Miss Cherry Blossom, and the athletic play On the Hiring Line, were put across by the aid of members of our class, who filled their parts exceedingly well. Near the end of this year we were looking forward to being Seniors and to come back in the fall with the sincere purposes of making our Senior year's studies the best ever. It is now September, in the fall of 1924, and our class begins the last lap of the four-mile relay. It is said by runners that the last mile in a race is always the best, for the last mile determines victory and the winning of the race. The Class of '25 is the one contestant, the other is Work and Study. In this race our class must overcome to win. In this race our class attempted something never attempted before in the history of' G. H. S. That something was to publish the news of the High School in a paper issued every two weeks. Now this attempt could only be carried out successfully by the direction of a capable, hard-work- ing editor and staff, who would receive the co-operation of the entire class. Our Maroon and White was a huge success from

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1925 Class Poem F uture Dear Classmates, in a ship with me, Look out upon a troubled sea, Where storms are raging, it is Life Unfurl the the sails! Prepare for strife. Storms are raging, blow on blow, It is the good that we must sow. Obstruction's breast lies well unbared, What care we now, We are prepared. To every cloud, a lining is, Your efforts make it what it is 3 Since conquering this awful blue, It is for us the silver hue. Oh! Comrades dear and sacred too, Success is there, meant for you, But all have many dangers faced, Who live and thrive, a marvelous taste. All good times must have a past, We climbed and romped upon the mast, For Worry's chains, we had no fear, ' But now We feel His presence near. Look forward then, my hearties, see A light, ahead, there on the lee 5 It is Victory's light, bright for him, Who sees afar, though the light be dim. The task before us, very hard, Ought have from each, sincere regard, But helpless we, without His aid, To whom, our debts, cannot be-paid. Oh Potent Father! Oh God of All Upon this group, let your blessings fall, Bless them, or Lord, with gracious sight That we may grow in deeds and might. THEODORE VIENER, '25.