Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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But in the battle-line we have a goodly fellowship. There is Mr. Hur- ley, who dedicated his genius to the building of a great merchant marine. He started out in the spirit of service. There is Doctor Carrol. He heard the call to sacrifice and answered, for in searching for a cure for yellow fever he submitted himself to the bite of an infected mosquito and as a result he suf- fered a severe attack of the disease. But his adventure was not fruitless, for when he discovered a remedy, without a moment of hesitation, he published the formula and refused even to name it with his name. Not many years ago a young man sat in our very places with the world before him. He started out to serve and that fine joy of sacrifice was his. Into a little town he went to work in a school. He might have settled down and been just a teacher, but he sought other ways of service. My friends, that man is President Wilson. Did he not tread these very paths? With no hesitation, no shrinking and no cowardly excuses, but with a calm word that demands duty alone and a glad heart for the chance of serv- ice, I call you to a battle as real as was the battle of the Argonne. I call you to a standard as inspiring as the French tri-color. I call you to an army with a need as real as the need of Wellington one hundred years ago. I call you to the conflict for your ideal. To leave behind you a monument that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year. You will never be forgotten. Your name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind you as the stars on the brow of evening. Again, men and women of 1920, I call you to enlist as soldiers of the common good. , in 'V EI 1 ABN' gg 4 s 9, sgf, Q U Q -,Qs G-'f5P7MM2f3 an Lava Y 025. ' Q71 tis? .,45: 4531 965' Q69 E-QA f'5v'e '50, em' v C w ' ULF. --wld' ,-enlluv, ag: M 'efiirfrkf-' ...15..

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Presidentis Address By Floyd J. Palmer MR. PARK, MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY, AND FRIENDS:- It is my greatest pleasure to welcome you here to our Commencement Exercises which form the conclusion of our work at Hamburg High School. This is the gala day of our lives, it is our day, our year. It is the day that we have awaited with the greatest anticipation and anxiety ever since we arrayed ourselves in the freshman column. We are about to receive the reward of four years of persistent endeavor. Those four years have passed all too quickly. Four years ago since we filed into chapel and sat down in the freshmen benches. Four years ago since we started on the last lap of our pre-academic education. Say, rather, four short weeks, for those years have passed all too quickly. Yet those years that have passed for us with the speed of a dream have been crisis years in the world. Look back upon them for a moment. The inventions and discoveries, the scientific advance, the conquest of civilization, and lastly, the World's War. We have studied the different periods of history and their makings, but we have been living in a great period, perhaps the greatest period in periods, since the dawn of time. l-low tempting are these lines of thought? How easy it would be to talk about the World's War and its battles, of the success in the wonderful industry of shipbuilding, of reconstruction in Europe, of immigration, of Americanization, of the treaty of peace or the League of Nations. But l dare not. We are meeting today for the last time as a class. Physically, we are about to sever those ties of friendship which have guided us through these last four years. But in our hearts the core of friendship will never grow cold. Some of us will go on to college, while others will settle down and with all our strength we will work and labor for the good of ourselves and our fellowmen. Perhaps in the far corners of the earth a few of us may meet and talk of the days gone by. Perhaps, when anniversary years come, a score of us may gather, but never again will we meet as a class. But a short time remains before we separate. It is my last chance to say a word. l dare not trifle with it. l dare not speak of worldly progress or scientific advance. Life, with its problems, is too near. I speak only of life and of our lives. We will find the hardships of life coming near to us. There will be hours of sleepless toiling, not for ease and luxury, but for toil and sacrifice, perhaps hunger and cold. Over our lives will come the glory of fighting in the battle of the world. We will feel the inspiration of days spent in glad striving. We will know the exultation of sharing, somehow, in the battle of life. We will catch a glimpse of the cowardice of those who dare not enlist and who will scorn their pitable unwillingness. into our days will come the thrill of the never-ending, ever-conquering conflict for the good of the world and our fellowmen. All the trials and hardships will be forgotten in the joy of service. We will do battle with mean enemies. Greed, hatred, suspicion and false pride will war with us. They have weapons that we know not of. Men who have no thought in others will contend with us and there will be hours when the sky will be overcast and clouded. -15.- il :fl

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HELEN ACQUILINA BURNS . Shorty. Another basketball shark. Captain of girls' basketball team. Likes to eat Pork. JOHN HURLEY BEREAN Beans He shines in basketball ancl football. His manly form of 200 pounds brings a burst of applause from the kids. LOUIS WILLIAM CHURCH Louie. President of the A. A. Manager of football. Business Manager of the Year Book. CLIFTON HOMER DE. GRAF Pork, our star football player. A poetic genius seconcl to none in our Senior class. FLOYD SMITH ECKHARDT Eel-Ly. Treasurer of Senior class. Manager of basketball and, last but not least, editor of the Year Book. I-Ie may be short, but Oh! my! u I