Girls Trade and Technical High School - Ripper Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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♦ MRS. META BERGER To whom the staff of 1939 gratefully dedicates this book

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1 J fl We, thy daughters, do here unveil our hearts filled with hopes and plans, aspirations and ambitions, and our dreams of spiritual beauty, so that you may know our deep gratitude You have marked the trail of life for us. You have taught us to search to find our place; then, to give to it our best, working with others to build a better world. You have been gentle as the mildest of our tender moods; you have been strong as the steel of our staunchest vows. You have been our guide. You have taught us to be all that beauty should: true, good, wise, and tender. In you we found a friend. Through you we made friends from whom came our greatest happiness. In you we found a teacher. Through you we knew teachers — teachers who had and kept standards, not just to make us do all the things we disliked most, but for the good of all. Your attitude was one of friendliness, courtesy, and kindness, entirely free from snobbishness; it gave us the feeling of belonging to you. Even your building itself had a language which told us how you felt toward us. Our warm memories of you, of joys and sorrows shared together, shall never fade; they shall linger and remain with us forever. We will hold fast our dreams of you within our hearts. You have showed us what it means to be true to our own best self; to be kind and helpful to others; clean in our thoughts and speech; true to our friends; fair to our family; cheerful and courteous in manner; faith- ful to any confidence placed in us; sensitive to beauty; abhorrent to all that is low and mean, choosing only those trails which lead to God and to happiness. It is our sincere wish that, as you have guarded us, so may you help other girls to find markers for their trails which will lead them safely to happy woman- hood. THE SENIOR CLASS.

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Strength and honor are her clothing: — she openeth her mouth with wisdom; — and in her tongue is the law ot kindness. — Proverbs 31. Surely strength, wisdom, and kindness are the key- notes in the character of our retiring board member, Mrs. Meta Berger. Thirty years of courageous fighting for just causes have proved her high sense of civic loyalty, but have not marred her gentleness. She has espoused the cause of the underprivileged, of the eager soul with an idea, of the misunderstood minority. She started things that took root ; she has had vision and faith. In recognition of her retirement, thirty-two civic and professional organizations sponsored on April 25 a banquet attended by six hundred and fifty friends; nine speakers praised her in terse but glowing words. But in this volume we pay tribute to Mrs. Berger as our own champion in early and difficult days, and as the con- stant friend of the teachers and students of Girls ' Trade and Technical High School. We wish to express in small measure our appreciation of the kindly consid- eration she has always given to our problems, and our gratitude for the influence upon our lives of a truly great woman. Give her ot the iruit ot her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates. Ml IfA aJr