Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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Class Officers President ......................EDGAR LEWIS Vice-President..........................MARTHA EVANS Secretary-Treasurer ............ZELLA BANDY Members Bandy, Zella Violet, Orlando Ambacher, Ruth Beckett, Madelon Kogel, Carrie Ead, Edna Brown, Cornelia Kristian, Michael Gobble, Myron Butler, Fred Kunneman. Edw Ileely, Gladys Davis, Priscilla Lennartz, Josephine Krautheim, Wm. Doering, Dorothy Lewis, Edgar Lindley, Kenneth Evans, Martha Massar. Leona Martin, Robert Eichelherger, Clarence Miller. Bertha McGeever, Floyd Handfelder, Rena Rhoades, Mae Mitchel, Claud Holmes, Virgie Ryrie, Mildred Morgan, Muriel Huff. Earl Santa, Victor Mueller, Alva Jones, Anna Smith, Finas Opdenhoff, Harold Kaiser, Irene Taylor, Monroe Pfroender, Margaret Keep, Elizabeth Westlake, Win. Smith, Irma Whaling, Katherine Williams, Katie Mild rid Utah—Love is a desperatething. 30

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Salutatory bbrcss By Daisy Pick. THE REWARD OF A NOBLE LIFE. 0 YOU the friends and kindred of the class of 1913 I extend my heartiest welcome. Perhaps we may never assemble again as we are assembled tonight. Tomorrow we shall scatter and eaeli will take up some duty which will tend to separate us more and more as the years pass by. Tomorrow we will no longer be the Seniors of the Granite City High School; but we will be a part of the Alumni of the G. C. II. S. We have at last reached that stage in life at which we must enter upon the greater joys and sorrows of this broad and extensive world. Tonight we are standing on the threshold of a greater and higher school. Our school days of the past may have been tiresome at times and some of us may have been discouraged. Yet as we toil onward in life I trust we may look back upon them as the happiest ever spent. Tonight we will step out of a school in which we have been so faithfully led and taught by our willing teachers, into another school, known as life, in which our only tutor will be experience. What this future school has in store for us we know not. But of this we can be sure; that the lessons and problems set before us in this the greatest of all schools, will be harder by far than those of previous years. There may be many a failure and many a struggle for each one of us. Yet may we not be discouraged. But let us strive ever onward, that each hardship with which we must contend may only strengthen us with the determination of accomplishing that which we have purposed to attain. What ever may be our employment in life or what ever our course may be. let us each toil onward and upward to gain at last the reward of a noble life. And what is the reward of a noble life? By reward I do not mean that which we shall receive after this temporary existence. But I am speaking of that which the world offers to each noble life. It is success. It may bring neither fame nor glory, it may not bring power or wealth, but it does bring to us the conviction that we have performed our duty in this life to the best of our ability. What greater reward can we desire? It is that knowledge which brings peace and happiness to the life of each one of us. It is that knowledge which tells us that we have accomplished some great aim in life. And the greatest aim of every one of us should be, to live an honest, virtuous, and a noble life. And now what shall we do to gain this reward ? First of all let us remember that nothing can be accomplished without an aim; he who has no aim has no Fred Elltnore—Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. 32