Grand Rapids High School - Pirate Yearbook (Grand Rapids, OH)

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Music . Baritone Solo Soprano Solo Salutatory . Clarinet Solo Music . Valedictory . Music . . WSing Class Address Music . . WGive Presentation of Class ..... . Miss Dorothy Bettig Presentation of Diplomas ..... Mr. Lowell Studer Benedicti on nlgn ocuuul. au.u..u.uui-rum 'Sunday, May 26, 8:00 P. M. Prelude . .... . . . Anna Mae Heising Processional ......... Anna Mae Heising WPomp and Circumstanceu--Elgar Invocation ...... . . Rev. Ben Loan Music . ...... Girls' Ensemble WNight Songn--Clokey Scripture . 2 ...... Rev. Ray Richards Music . . ...... . Mixed Chorus WMy God and In--Sergei Class Sermon . ...... . WFood for Lifen I Saxophone Solo ........ WFair Rosmarinn--Fritz Kreisler Rev. Byron Hughes . Chester Brown Benediction ......... Rev. Byron Hughes Recessional . . Anna Mae Heising Com encement Program High School Auditorium Tuesday, Hay 28, 8:00 P. M. Superintendent D. W. Oman, Presiding Chorus . Mixed 1 Q Q Q u - . - WGolden Slumborsuw-Robertson WThe Rosy Red Banddm-Luvaas . . . . . . . . . Wal+er Scheub nThe Elephant's Danceh--Putnam . . . . . . . . . Norma Bortel 'O Lovely Eightln--Ronald . . . . . . . . Elinor Thomas WCan We Maintain the Peace?W . . . . . . . V. . Glenda Heyman WClarinet Polkan--Dvoarky . . . . . . . Boys' Double Quartet WDance My Comradesn--Bennett . . . . . . . . Doris Mae Soliday nln Ourselves Our Future Liesn . . . . . . . . . Girls' Chorus Me the Song That Sings In Your Heartn--Blum UMy Lover Is a Fishermann--Strickland . . . . Rev. Tennyson Guyer, Celina, Ohio UYouth--Our Secret Weaponn . . . . . . . . . Boys' Chorus WI Love A Paraden--Arlen a Man a Horse He Can Riden--Geoffrey 0'Hara Class Adviser President of the Board of Education . . . . . . . . Rev. Ray Richards A

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HUSMWQDY held it earlier this year because some of the senior boys went into the armed forces and we wanted to have the banquet while they were still here. Our theme was, uSouth of the Border,U and it was worthall the trouble we had to make it good, for everyone, I an sure, enjoyed it. Our second play helped considerably to bring our class treasury back to normal. Then came the May Day Dance, but we took in enough money from the dance to come out even for the expense of it. It was time for vacation again. - At last the blessed nonent had cone. We cane back to school as the Sophisticated Seniors. We held election of officers and the fol- lowing were elected: President, Chet Browng Vice President, Raymond Mohr: Secretary, Betty Fletcherg Treasurer, Donald Heymang and News Reporter, Norma Bortel. About the first thing we did this year was to present the play entitled UGallopin' Ghosts,U on November 30. It was quite a hit. On December 4th, Pete Graf,Jr., left for the Navy and on January 2, Party Heckler also left to join the Navy. Donald Huffman joined our class after receiving a discharge from the Navy. Thus, we now had a class of 26, who graduated this spring.We presented-another play entitled, UNO Foolin'n. On April ll, Eugene Schlotz, BillKnhlman and Bob Stearns left our school to go into the Coast Guards, thus five boys had left our class to go into service. We sold subscriptions for magazines this year and now we hope the class who gets the opportunity of selling in the future will be able to do as well as we were able to do. Our class decided to put the annual out by ourselves this yearand to have no outside help on it. On May l7,the Junior Class entertained us at the Junior-Senior banquet. On May 24, we had class night, and May 26 was our Baccalaureate with Reverend Hughes giving the sermon. On May 28 was Commencement and Reverend fennyson Guyer was our speaker for this occasion. We are no longers Students of Grand Rapids High School, but are on our own now. The last thing our class did together, was our class trip. We went to Niagara Falls. ---Carl Fox

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SJ .NK 5 ft : pfff' r' iff? W x ,A ,if T l ,fi 35-'ff V xl ff-es. we-ff 5 xx A sly .I Yi Ll Ladies and Gentlemen: Tonight, we, teachers and our This year pe go forward and ke the Seniors of '46, welcome you, our parents, our fellow citizens to our Commencement. ace has been secured and clearw our challenge is to ep this peace. Men today fail to realize that the world is so united by modern means of transpo is not relatively or Athens nt the Russia disagrees countries of the single community. rtntion and communication as for from Grand Rapids time of the Caesars. We with Iran, the problem is world for the world is so that any place in the world as Rome was from Carthage fail to realize that when of great concern to all the united that it is really a It has changed from a large world of isolated, in- ,Q dependent nations to a small world of integrated interdependentnntions The thought that the world is a single community requires that we be- come citizens of this community just as we are citizens of the small communities in which we live. This community must be one which recog- nizes equality end dignity of man. It must be n community in which men work together for the good of all, not for individuel gain. To form a single political community requires patient work among nations with no nntion's saying, Wwe are first, the peace of the world is second,W It also requires that cultural, ls1guage,social,end other The racial o national barriers barriers to begin ence does it make doesn't expect us is not necessary be broken down. Cultural barriers are not even with if we use e little common sense. What differ- if our neighbor eats with chopsticks as long as he to do the same. The breaking down of individuality to hove our united politicd.eommunity. The fact that people do not speak the same language can be reme- died. Didn't we some time but it do it in our country? However, it probably will take needn't take as long as it did here. roblem can also be solved, I believe, if we learn racial tolerance in school' and in our contacts with others, for el- though the dark peoples of the world nearly outnumber the whites, they do not want to control the world, they just want equality and decent treatment. The social conditions of ourfmminegroes have inproved much in the lest ten years. Will they, in the rehnbilitation period, be able to maintain these improved social conditions? will the natives of Indie, recently offered their freedom by Britain's Prime Minister, prosper after they receive it? The economic problems are problems which must also be remedied in some way or another so that all the people of the worldheverelatively equal opportunities. We must establish some kind of production fac- ilities in the notions which have been ravaged by war. Perhaps by