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

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Baccalaureate Service High School Auditorium Sunday, May 18, 8:15 P. M. Prelude Anna Mae Heising. Processional Anna Mae Heising HPomp and Circumstancen- Elgar A Invocation Rev. Ben Loan Music Mixed Chorus UMy God and IU- Sergei NRock of Agesn- Buck Scripture Rev. Ben Loan Soprano Solo Jane Nicodemus nThe Lord's Prayern- Malotte Class Sermon Rev. Ray Richards UThe First Stepn Music Girls Chorus NMay Day Caroln- English Folk Song arr.-Taylor Benediction Rev. Ray Richards Recessional ' Anna Mae Heising Commencement Program High School Auditorium Tuesday, May 20, 8:15 P. M. Superintendent D. W. Oman, Presiding Music Girls Chorus HMaritaU- Morgan NPlaintn- Czech Folk Song Invocation Rev. B.D. Hughes Music Mixed Chorus nLo A Voicen- Bortniansky Salutatory Gail Fitch UTo the Stars Through Difficultiesn Music - Girls Sextette HFairies Dancen HSleep Sleep Beautyn- Bright Valedictory JOhn Katon HOur Challenge- The Atomic Age Soprano Solo - Jane Nicodemus NPace, Pace, Mio Dio- Verdi Class Address Rev. R. Lincoln Long . WThe Largest Number in the Worldu Saxophone Solo Fredrick Kendall NSmoke Gets in Your Eyesu- Kern Presentation of Class Mr. Normand Jones Class Advisor Presentation of Diplomas Mr. Lowell Studer President of Board of Education Benediction Rev. Ben Loan

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M PAUI. BOOHER Paul -General Wayne 1,2 Basketball 3,4 A Case of Springtime 3 Annual Staff 4 LUCILLE M. WEAVER Boots -Commercial Glee Club l,2,3.4 Spilled Ink 2,3,4 Annual Stafi 4 Girl Reserves l,2,3.4 Scholarship 1,2 Cantata l,2.3,4 Sextette 4 Skeleton Walks 4 GENEVIEVE MCCURDY RICHARD GRA? llllUY -General Rich -General Glee Club 3,4 Glee Club 1,2,3 Girl Reserves 3.4 Band 1,2 SP1119d Ink 4 A Case of Springtime 3 CGTHGYG 3.4 Annulal Staff 4 Annual Staff 4 Cantata 1,23 Skeleton Walks 4 MARY ELLEN IJPP. Marta -Commercial Libbey 1 Cheerleader 4 Glee Club 2,3,4 A Case of Springtime Cantata 2,3,4 Annual Staff 4 Girl Reserves 2,3,4 SHIRLEY A. SCHHOEDER CHARI. L. MCEWEN Shirts -General Monclova l ,2.3 Girl Reserves 4 Cham -General Glee Club l.2,3,4 Cantata l,,2.3,4 3 Glee Club 4 Basketball Manager 2,3,4 Cantata 4 Spilled lnk 4 Annual Staff 4 Band 3,4 Spilled Ink 4 Annual Staff 4 Boy Scouts l,2,3,4 Chorus Contest 3 Baseball Manaqer 3.4 Skeleton Walks 4 A X A S -1. w t R rtif Q V -fmt ,mn-as 4+ 3, xfggtr l 4 -4, .X 'fc ., . A ' X RUTH SMHH Ruth -Commercial Glee Club l,2.3,4 Annual Staff 4 A Case of Springtime 3 Girl Reserves l.,2,3.4 Cantata l,2,3,4 Sextette 4 IAN! E. NICODEMUS Nic -General Class Officer 1 Band l,2,3,4 Glee Club l,2,3,4 Cantata l,2,3,4 Girl Reserves l,2,3,4 District Contest l,2,3,4 Annual Staff 4 Spilled lnk 3,4 A Case of Springtime D. A. R. Scholarship 4 Scholarship 2 State Solo Contest 3 State Chorus 3 Student Conductor 2 Nat'l. Fed. of Music 4 Mu Phi Scholarship 3 Chorus Contest 3.4 Skeleton Walks 4

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WTO the Stars through Difficulties Ladies and Gentlemen: Tonight, we the Seniors of W47U, welcome you, our parents, teachers and friends, to this commencement. As we look intoime future tonight there are troubles and wibulations for all of us.N Our country has just passed through one great war and nowi ere' is talk of another. Yes, these are times that even the best of us quail under added responsibility. And we must share the responsibility of keeping this peace for the future generations. Men with confidence in humanity say this all will pass and give way to permanent peace. Others agree that this is a very depressing time, but go further by saying that great nations can never peaceably agree on important matters, Which view shall we follow? Governments are no better than the people composing them and we are the real ,government UT this Great country. As we are one of the most powerful nations on earth, our decision will count heavily in deciding the fate of mankind. We one it to our decendents to make a decision we shall never regret. We are now enjoying the toils and achievements of men who have 'gone before usg Men who believed in the old adage WThere is a silver lining to every cloud. They believed in it and devoted their entire lives to bettering conditions under which they lived. For instance, during the Dark Ages, the outlook for civilization was much bleaker even than it is today. Today we fear the advent of an agesnmilar to the Dark Ages. Then the majority of people were not concerned with the future. The forces of evil grolnd the people down, terrorized them and gave them little to look forward to. There was no education and little security to be found. Yet, despite this bleak outlook, people were preserving gpast customs and accomplishments. In that world there was one place of safety, the great monasteries of Europe. There men labored keeping alive the spark of civilization. In those days there were no printing presses. If something was to be preserved in writing, it had to be written by hand. Men who believed that civilization was not dead, laboriously copied volumes of past historical events, literary achievements, and preserved them in the depths of the old monasteries. Their faith was justified and their work was not in vain. The world as they knew it eventually disintegrated and the principles of humanity again ruled the world. ' Those men had courage and devotion of highest type. They were working and praying for a day which they knew only future generations would see, the day of deliverance from terrorizing forces. We too, are working for a day which we are afraid we ourselves shall never see, a day of permanent peace and cooperation among the great nations of