Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. 17 i , f FS'- EDITORIAL 'Zag X 1 ul 1 MARGUERITE SWANSON I ISA BULLOCK . Editors-im Chief CARL LENNERTZ . . Business Manager AL VINA KRA USSE Science Editor PA UL BRUEBA CH . Athletic Editor ALICE LARSON . . Social Editor FRED WEA VER . . Literary Editor EDNA BORGER . . . Art Editor ELMAIDA JOHNSTON . Music Editor ELSA ROSE . . Personals Editor SALUTATORY. v lb ADIES and Gentlemen: The class of 1911 extends to you a p most cordial Welcome. lVe are pleased to see that such an enthusiastic audience has gathered here to greet us on this, 5 74-4 our graduating night. Graduation. What does it mean? It means that we have successfully completed four years of High School training. 'With this course of Work we are enabled to enter any school of higher education, without further examination, or, if we ta-ke up life's Work We are equipped With these qualities and accom- plislnnents which may be turned to account in the Winning of success. lVe rejoice to be a.ble to stand here. Although many tasks have been placed before us, We have conquered. Vile have overcome all

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Ll EDNA BORGER Here's the class artist, most skillful in Art, Her drawings will always go straight to the heart. She is fond of a certain new popular song, And she sings it at intervals all the day long. She is always found happy and hrimfull of fun: Should you ask, Who likes Edna? Why, everyone. 2 FRED WEAVER Did you hear that clear voice to a high tenor toned When, as john Alden, his fate he bemoaned ? How many Priscillas might welcome that voice And prompt a proposal, if they had the choice! Why, that was Fred Weaver, the pride of our clan, He possesses the virtues that measure the man. 6 ALVINA KRAUSSE Alvina has made herself famous in plays, When there is work to be done she will brook no delays ' She's a girl of strength, both in hand and in mind She is faithful and steady and true. She is kind She is your friend and my friend, she is ever the same A member Eleven is most proud to claim

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18 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL difficulties. To-day we stand on the threshold ready to enter the new world. Agai11 on looking back over our school life, our glad days dispel all our misgivings. Look at the rewa.rd, the opportunities, the possibilities. Great are the advantages that are afforded in this, our free country. Let us be thankful for the national policy and the connnunity spirit that has afforded ns this encouragement and provided these facilities. 2 4 The word commencement does not mean that we are finishing a certain work, but rather, it means that we are beginning a new work. The world we are entering will be different. It will be a change from our usual course. The time is now at hand when it is necessary for us to part, but the ties of friendship we have formed as a class we defy either time or circumstance to sever. Now our duties are individual, heretofore they were somewhat collective as a body, but we are pre- pared and let us face life boldly. Probably some of us will enter a higher school of training, others will take up life's work. 1Vhatever the course, we pursue it as the duty of ea.ch of us to accomplish some- thing which will be a credit to us and to our school. God demands that we do our best. So may each one looking forward through the years, labor ever onward, unharmed by doubts and fears. And no matter what our work, may we thoughtfully hold steadfast to the ideal of King Arthur and his knights: Reverence the king, as if he were our conscience, And our conscience as our king. To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrong, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor our own word as if God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastityf' Soon we will have passed over the threshhold which lies between our school life and our world life. But in all cases remember the motto which we as a class have adopted, lVer fest auf S9i116 Sinne beharrt der bildet die 1Velt sich. He who holds firmly to his purpose fash- ions the world as he will. Again friends let me, in the name of the class of 1911, welcome you to this, our connnenceinent. CARL LENNERTZ.