Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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22 ROUNDUP for the still higher things which are certain to follow. We received our first advancement when we found ourselves dubbed by the upper classmen, Freshies. Yet we gloried in the name. Perhaps it was the thought that we were making our first steps to the higher position that these classmen now hold and we could some day look back and say Welcome, Freshie. On looking back over the road traveled, and thinking of the knocks and tumbles we have had, we cannot but feel glad that the end is so near at hand. The trail has at times seemed almost impos- sible but even these rough spots when passed over have made the less rough places where we seemed mired in lessons, with seemingly no avenue of escape. In these cases it has been only by grim determi- nation and hard work that we have been able to overcome the obsta- cles and feel the joy and satisfaction that comes to every conqueror. How grateful we feel toward those who so gladly aided us when we could no longer see the light ahead! What a pleasure it has been to give aid and assistance to a struggling classmate and what joy to see him, or her, advance once more by the little aid that has been gladly given. From this point onward we shall have instructors of a totally different sort. We shall no longer have those to guide and instruct us, who have during these years had our interests in view and have taken pleasure in seeing us grow strong in intellect and manly and womanly char- acter, but instead, instructors who are paid only to teach and the rest is left to the individual to work out as best he can. Towards those teachers, who have always been interested in our welfare, we have a feeling of deep appreciation and thankfulness, and we hope that we may make a mark for ourselves that will be a joy to them to know. Thev have worked for us. fought for us, and what have we ever done to repay them? Now our opportunity is at hand. All we can do at present is to thank them and wish them as many happy days as we expect to have. Right here, as in no other place in life, our methods and associates are more strictly democratic in principle. Our wishes, our work, our pleasures are all the same. Never again shall we be surrounded with associates who are so congenial and cordial as they have been in high school. In the higher institutions we find individuals all struggling for the same end, but along different paths. Some take the path that leads to political honor, others the path to medical fame, some the road to

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EDITORIAL STAFF. Roundup on Sale at Postoffice News Stand. 224V4 Central Avenue Editor-in-Chief - - - - ARTHUR W. WRIGHT, ' 12 Associate Editors — Annie Luke, 12; Kittie Woodward, 12; Edith Johnson, ' 12; Marguerite Knudsen, 12; Ruth Noble, ' 13; Ethel Carpenter, ' 13; Agnes Bergeson, ' 13; Mabel Taylor, ' 13; Marion Duncan, 13; Anna Rector, 12; Frances Lambert, ' 12. Exchange Manager ---------- Marguerite Knudsen, ' 12 Business Managers — Donald Hoffman, ' 12; Taylor Lescher, ' 12; Donald Suhr, ' 13; Ben Lapeyre, ' 13 FIFTH YEAR JUNE, 1912 NUMBER THREE gay bunch we were when the opening of school in 1908 lund us in reality Freshmen. A happy crowd we have been on our four years ' journey through High school. But how much more jubilant we are now that the long sought for goal looms up before us. What a welcome sight it is to see that for which we have been so long struggling and persevering, at last before our eyes. The task that remains for us is to scale this one last obstacle, the final exams, and receive our reward, the coveted diploma. After eight years of grade work we were truly glad to enter High school, and though it meant more and harder work, at the same time it meant the acquisition of more knowledge. It meant, to us. the advancement on the plain of life that we have now acquired; and where is the person in any phase of life who does not feel gratified in an advancement? It makes his life seem more worth while, his duties more agreeable. He knows that his services have been faith- fully rendered, every order successfully obeyed and that all these have been of the greatest value to him. He endeavors in his higher position, to not only make himself worthy of it. but to qualify himself

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ROUNDUP 23 the ministry, others seek positions in the mechanical world, while many are found pursuing literature and art, but though all are seeking honor and power each one is on his or her own individual path and rises only by his or her own exertions and falls by his or her own blunders. Does it not behoove us to strengthen ourselves to surmount those larger obstacles? Our battles that are fought and won must be accomplished by ourselves. Many hands will try to drag us down but few will be those to uplift us. With the long sought for goal so near in sight why should we be other than jubilant? To see. what has for four years been merely a vision, now within our grasp. We now stand at the first of a series of goal posts. Before us stretch many different paths leading to the various goals. Some may chose their paths haphazard, and perchance find them easy and the goal quite accessible, while others will find them rough and perhaps reach a point where their strength will not enable them to surmount. The more cautious climb further up the mountain of knowledge, that they may, from their more lofty view, choose the right path which nature has alloted them. It is pleasing to note that along this later course, at least, fifty per cent of the class will travel. We regret the loss of those who have felt it their duty to leave us that they might help some friend or relative and we feel that they deserve much praise for their self-sacrifice. We wish them pleasure ami success on their life ' s journey. As editor-in-chief, we wish to thank those who have so loyally supported and worked for the welfare of the Great Falls High school ' s representative in all parts of the United States and abroad — viz.. the Roundup. The assistant editors deserve much praise and many thanks for the work done by them. The good financial standing the Roundup now has is due to the persistent efforts of the manager and his untirin g assistants. ' 1 hose who have contributed the pages of our paper deserve many thanks for their valuable contributions. Right here we wish to thank the Merchants ' Association for the supporl and patronage they have given to us. To those subscribers and read- ers of the Roundup we extend our thanks and hope they have found it amusing and profitable. With this issue our active connection with the Roundup ceases but we shall always have its welfare at heart. To the next editor-in- chief we extend our hand and may he find his duties agreeable. We hope that he may be more proficient and bring the Roundup to a much higher standard. And. as a farewell, the class of [912 wishes the Roundup a long and prosperous life.