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

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Dear Friends: — d r J AM glad to welcome you to this, our graduation night. We, as the class of ’18, have looked forward to this night of nights as a self-satisfying time because we have climbed a step nearer the goal which we hope to attain. I think you realize as much as we do, the difference between our High School caieer and that of all previous graduates. Since 1914, when we entered High School as Freshmen and up to this time, a great world-wide struggle has been going on. During a crisis like this, one is fortunate to be in the school room under the guidance of patient teachers. We have studied the remote causes of the war, the character of the nations in the war, our own entrance on the side of the allied forces, and we recognize the great issues which now separate us from our enemies. We all know the great men of our country. These qualities are theirs: courage, unselfishness, and a willingness to do every duty to the best of their ability in spite of public criticism. They have high airirs; they look to God for strength and inspiration. We are asked to cultivate these qualities. We now have high aims, it remains to be seen whether we shall hold fast to these ideals and aims. May the test of adversity find us loyal and true. To have victory we must be obedient to our government’s wishes, — we must bear the hard things without complaint. In this way we shall stand in the path of duty and make our lives count most to our country. It is the atmosphere of the school that nourishes the growth of these principles. One does not drift into the possession of the qualities which make a hero; these qualities do not just happen to come. They are the things for which we pay the highest price. As we leave this school tonight each one of us hopes to be able to do something specific in this great struggle. Our boys are planning to take up special work so as to be prepared if they are needed. Some of the girls are preparing themselves for clerical work; — experts for which the government is calling continually. Some are going forth as teachers, and several expect to enter college. But whatever we do, and wherever we go, we have the same aim. A rJ 0 r iJ 0 My hope tonight is that we may live to see our motto, “Truth Conquers,” win, and that we as a class and as individuals may play our part in the winning. - — Evelyn M. Fredrick ■ A Eighteen T) G

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D Q= Q a EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Mary Gearhart Business Manager, Latin Hosea Bayor History - Lolita Smith Social Florence Pio Sordelet Literary, Domestic Science Evelyn Fredrick Commercial - Grace Murray Music Thelma Fetterer Science - John Martin Mathematics Dora Owens 0 U 0 EDITORIAL 0 r rU When reading this volume of the Aurora may the Alumni be carried back to their old-time school days, and may our parents look with piide upon our handiwork. We are not experienced workers but have done our best to make this book a success. Please keep this in mind as you turn o’er the pages and give our efforts a kindly thought. Q — Editor-in-Chief.

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d a SCIENCE Q 0 N HOBART High School there are three years of Science, in the first year we had Botany from which we learned the structure of the different plants and how they grew, the names of the parts and their use, and the uses of the plants them- selves, and we greatly enjoyed the Botanical excursions which we made. In the second year, Science is left out to be taken up in the third year in Physics which deals with all kinds of machines, elec- tricity, light and sound and it is from the laws of Physics that we are able to fly through the air and to have our fast locomotives, and with the aid of electricity we are able to have the telephone, telegraph and wireless and many other equally useful instruments and machines. In the Senior year we study Chemistry which deals with the different elements that go to make up the earth and all things on it, and it is with the aid of this science that we are able to make our powerful explosives and many other things which we use in the war, also it is with the aid of Chemistry that we can combat many diseases. — John Martin. 0 Q DEEP RIVER NEAR HOBART Nineteen -V- A) (7