Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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Senior Class fyistorp To write a history that wrould do justice to the largest and inost enterprising class that was ever graduated from Grafton High School would require too much time and space. Furthermore, it would not be in keeping with our custom to write a long history, for v. e believe as docs the poet, that, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” We have been here four years—four eventful years. As life is a problem of surmounting difficulties and barriers, so our High School life has been a problem of mounting hills and stairways. We have been deprived of the privilege and advantage of an auditorium, and, practically speaking, of the use of a library. However, we have made the best of what we had. and in spite of our care and difficulties, we have had many pleasant experiences which more than compensate us. We have said that we are an enterprising class. We are, in more ways than one. Our High School has no literary societies, because of the fact that we have no place in which to meet. We were not daunted by this fact. We organized a literary society of our own. and held our programs in our class room. We feel that we have derived much benefit from our society. As another means of promoting our social and intellectual life, we have organized a German Club, a step never taken by any previous Senior Class. This year our class is to be represented at High School Day. at Morgantown. We expect to be victorious. but if defeated, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that we had the courage aud intrepidity to make the attempt. A few days ago we were Freshmen. The next day we were Sophomores. Yesterday we were Juniors. Today we are Seniors, standing upon the threshold of our unknown future. We look back over these years and feel that we owe much to our teachers. In an inestimable measure, have they moulded our future lives. We feel that they have inculcated in us something of the high and noble which we will carry with us out into the wide, wide world. And now as Commencement is almost here. we. conscious that our High School days are swiftly drawing to a close, look forward to our future life with bright hopes; not with fear or apprehension for we are of an undaunted spirit that refuses to be overthrown. We will carry with us pleasant memories of the dear old school and its associations. Yes. apparently. some of our number will take with them a REMEMBRANCE, which will in the future years, serve as a double incentive in review irg the memories of this school and its associations. During the four years of our high school life we have made many mistakes but these have served as stepping stones to something higher, until tc-day we stand, victorious. In our future, whatever it may be, we expect to meet with trials and discouragement, but we remember that, “The heights of great men. reached and kept. Were not attained by sudden Bight; But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night. —-H. E., Historian.