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

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Ambrose Ryan President Helen Hill Secretary Velma Lewis Treasurer Howard Lease Vice President Page Nineteen

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ROUNDUP ANNUAL, JUNE, 1917 (Elass (BffiatB President - - Ambrose Alexander Rvan Vice President Howard Stiles Lease Secretary - Helen Maxine I lill Treasurer Clara Velma Lewis (UlasH Inttn Dier (Elass (Efllnra Gray and Blue lunnr umt Velma Lewis Edith Judson ( (live Kimmerle Anna Parker Laura )lson Hilda Ulsen Esther Swanson Florence Jensen Laura Pearson Vivian Bruneau (iraftuattttg turners I ligh ScIk ml Auditi iriuni Thursday Evening, June 7, 1917 Program Velma Lewis What Next? (dive Kimmerle Music in Every Day Life Laura ( llson Vocational Training- Esther Swanson Universal Service Laura Pearson Pioneers Edith Judson Spirit of the Red Cross Anna Parker Heritage of the American Youth Hilda Olson Smile Up Your Face Florence Jensen Every Day Heroes Vivian Bruneau Ellis Island Page Eighteen

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ROUNDUP ANNUAL, JUNE, 1917 miimimiiiiiiiniimiiini Parents, Faculty, Friends and Fellow Students: The members of the graduating class of 1 ' J17 have reached the goal toward which they have been working twelve long years. We are begin- ning to realize, as you have so often told us, that we have only reached the beginning of real work and joy in this life. It seems well for us who are about to step forward into the Arena of the World ' s progress to consider something of what our parts in the great battle of life are, or ought to be, as citizens of the greatest republic and the grandest nation in all the world, before its people of one of the best schools of ail those that cover the land from ocean to ocean. The one predominant thought we all have in our minds at the present moment is patriotism, and I should like to define that word as the class of 1917 under- stands it. We have all our lives heard a great deal about patriotism. Each citizen has seemed to define the word in his own way. We are ail more or less familiar with Decatur ' s immortal toast: Our Country ! May she always lie in the right! But right or wrong, Our Country ! Upon first hearing these words they sound brimful of patriotism and we feel a responsive thrill as we listen to it. but to the mind of one whose thoughts are higher, deeper, broader, and purer, as he looks upon the flag waving in the air — to one who loved his country as Washington, Lincoln, and McKinley did — the words are far from having a true ring. To such a heart the only true patriotism is that highest and best love of country that has the nation ' s purest and noblest good at heart, that has a lofty conception of what his nation .should be and uses all his energy to bring her as close to that ideal as it is possible. If need be we will say Our Country, right or wrong, but we will add, My Country, make her right, keep her standards clean and white. Many in this graduating class have felt the call of the arm} - or navy and have left their school work and their homes to uphold the standards of our country in this time of need that now faces us as a nation. The first to an- swer this call was Charles Smith, captain of the football team. Into the navy with him went John Baier, the center of that same team. Following their examples of patriotism are Carl Suhr, Albert Fousek, Frnest Steel and John KLreiger. Many of the members are serving their country by raising food- stuffs out on the farm. Though absent for a month or two, these patriotic members, both soldiers and farmers, will be awarded their diplomas. I have tried to define our patriotism in words; I also pledge the class of 1 ( »17 to show you its understanding of patriotism by its deeds. Our class motto, Dig. is the best example of the work we have been doing in the last four years of school and the way all of us intend to go through life. We intend to dig hard lor the best there is in it — the friend- ship of our neighbors and the respect of everyone. AMBR )SE RYAN. Page Twenty