Hendersonville High School - Laureate Yearbook (Hendersonville, NC)

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4 THE MOUNTAINEER “Who can foretell for what high cause, This darling of the gods was born.” SILAS LEE ALLEN “A proper man as one in a summer’s day. A most love¬ ly gentleman-like man.” ARTHUR ENGLISH

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THE MOUNTAINEER “In soul sincere, In action faithful In honor clear.” MARY LOEE ENGLISH “The mildest manners with the bravest mind.’’ J. MACK JONES

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THE MOUNTAINEER 5 Salutatory Friends, Teachers, Schoolmates—it is my pleasant task to bid you, in behalf of my mates and myself, welcome to our Class Day Exercises and, though the class of 1916 is small in numbers, our welcome is as warm as any a class many times our numbers could accord you. We trust that the memory of this day may linger pleasantly with you as with us, long after we have scattered to our respective homes to assume the life work for which we have so long endeavor¬ ed to equip ourselves. We come before you with a very full realization that this is in¬ deed a commencement for us—that we have finished but to begin— that the “world’s broad field of battle’’ now lies before us and that we are but raw recruits in that great army of workers that is ever marching on into the dim vistas of the Future. Our little band may perform no deeds of valor, our names may not “go sounding down the ages” but we hope to prove that our class-motto is no empty sounding phrase—that we are in very truth— “Quality not Quantity.” Today we pass our first milestone in life’s pathway—today we stand “where the brook and river meet.” In the past our steps have been guided, our characters shaped by kind and faithful Friends and Teachers—they have helped when the road was rough—encouraged when the light of hope grew dim —pointed us to high ideals, inspired with noble thoughts—but to¬ day we surrender these ties—we must stand forth as your women and young men—to develop strong noble characters—to be and do something in the world—or else, degenerate into weaklings without self-reliance, courage or aim— “Self reverence, self knowledge, self control. These three alone, lead life to sovereign power.” Ruskin says: “The weakest among us has a gift, however seeming by trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race.” It is for us then to do our small best, each in his allotted sphere. We must fight to win life’s battles. Opportunity comes, not to him