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

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0=0 SALUTATORY IX s ' ) [ IND Parents, Classmates, and Friends: It affords me great pleasure to welcome you to the Commencement of the Class of 1915. We have longed with joyful hearts for this eventful night, when we, as graduates, could meet the pleasant faces of our friends. Now that the time has come, sorrow steals across us. We think we have worked bravely and faithfully during the past four years and now having reached one goal, will launch forth into a wider realm, seeking to attain a higher goal. Tonight we stand upon the threshold ready for what- ever fate has prepared for us. Realizing the truth of our motto, “The Past is but the Prelude,” each individual will be eager for a new career, according to her past edu- cation. Commencement does not mean that we have completed our work, but rather that we are to begin anew, with strengthened enthusiasm. Most High School students when asked what they intend doing after they leave school, have to say they do not know. Not so with the Class of 1915. Since we first set foot in the Hobart High School, the thought has always been foremost in our minds, to prepare at once for our future career. The work we have done was not mere child’s play, but it required effort and perseverenee. Men like Mil- ton, Tennyson and Lincoln did not become famous in one day, nor in one year, but it took many years of earnest work. Although many times we were discouraged, per- haps over minor things, yet we did not give up in despair, but rather strove on, realizing that the future contained higher rocks to climb. For this we must especially thank our parents and teachers. The parents for pro- 12 viding means for giving us an education, and our teach- ers who encouraged us in all our tribulations. It was they who helped us surmount the greatest difficulties, never tiring nor ceasing in their efforts. As the curtain drops upon our past and the veil of the future is raised, a banner bearing the memorable words of our motto, “The Past is but the Prelude,” looms brighter than all, and it is our sincere hope and wish that this truth shall never be forgotten by any member of 1915. Now let our farewell be another welcome to one and all. AGNES LENNERTZ. DUTY “Stern Law-Giver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead’s most benignant grace.” — Wordsworth. E ARE taught to believe that the nature of man is freedom. Then wherefore laws? Duty imposes laws — biological, physiological, socio- logical, and psychological. To violate these laws is to hinder development, and develop- ment has perfect freedom as its final goal. This freedom is not anarchism in the social order, not atheism and skepticism in thought, not license in morals. It is rather an ideal development, a serenity of mind, an untroubled purpose which betokens that we have conquered desire — made the desire our own so that now there is no distracting impulse and we are free. Selfishness is eliminated and the altruistic man is evolved, cheerfully obedient. His thoughts are in har- mony with truth, he appreciates the beautiful, his actions are upright before God. G. H. THOMPSON.

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EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief . . Elnora Carlson Business Manager — Commercial . Marie Scheidt Art ... . Helen Rose Social — German . . Helen Smith Literary — Mathematics Lyda Fulton History — Civics . Mary Thompson Music .... . . Bessie Ols Latin — English . . Frieda Nagel Personals . . . . . Bess Johnson Science — Manual Arts . Agnes Lennertz =£j = a EDITORIAL We, the class of 1915, submit the eighth volume of the Aurora for your perusal. We have worked faithfully to publish it and it is our earnest hope that the jokes and school events recorded herein may serve as a pleasant remembrance of school days. We desire to thank the faculty for their kind assistance and the adver- tisers who have in a large measure made possible this edition and hope that the advertisements will be read with interest. W e ask you to kindly bear in mind that this is our first attempt at journalism, and we hope that this book will meet with the same consideration accorded previous volumes of the Aurora.

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Q= II 1 IN MEMORIAM CARRIE BANKS February 8, 1872 — September 24, 1914 First Graduate of Hobart High School Class of 1 889 Mamie Jory ' 91 Edwin Gordon ' 96 Howard Gordon . ' 93 Bernard Peterson . ' 99 Ida Lutz ' 94 Howard Halsted . ' 07 Hugh Thompson . ' 95 Theresa G. (Butts) Halliday . ' 09 p =D 0= £5 — a