Homer High School - Trojan Yearbook (Homer, MI)

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THE TBft.IflN 11 which to bring up our children. We are not all going to take the same vocation. Some of us will go to college to continue our scholastic careers. Some will serve in the armed forces. Some will ply the trade of their fathers and mothers. While others may reach out into the unknown and untried fields of science and research. But whatever we do after we take our places in the world as men and women here will be one aim uppermost in our hearts and minds. To achieve what those before us have started. Plans for the foundation of world peace have already been drawn and the digging started. We shall do our best to make sure that our share of the world progresses. If only the foundation is completed in our time we will have helped to accomplish something. We, the outgoing Senior Class of 194 pledge ourselves and our efforts to take up the tools laid down by those who have gone before us, and help build from the timber to the best of our ability, a better world and a lasting peace. In closing I would like to quote the words of R. L. Sharpe: Isnft it strange That princes and kings. And clowns that caper In sawdust rings. And common people Like you and me, Are builders of Eternity? Each is given a bag of tools, A shapeless mass, A book of rules. And each must make-Ere life is flown, A stumbling block Or a stepping stone. T T ill T T U I I ill T ill I i ri 1—1 u n 11 i Homer High School is proud of its recent capable graduates, the Alumni of 1946. A check on their activities has revealed this information. Bruce Hicks, Roger Poole, and William (Bill) Snyder head the list. They are serving in the Armed Forces. We think Albion College should feel honored with our two highest scholars of last year, Betty Jean Lynn and Lawrence Wade. Bob Jones College, Cleveland, Tennessee is honored withDarell Koons, and Argubright's Business College with Harriet Howe. Five members have chosen to walk down the aisle. Mabel Tobey has become Mrs. Duane Butler; Priscilla Roseman is Mrs. Emerson Hildebrant; and Helen Smith is now Mrs. James Avery. Jeane Folk has become the bride of Harry Cutcher Jr., also of the class of '46. The Alumni of 46 is quite well represented in neighboring communities. Mary Jane Read and Charles Larder are employed in Jackson, Alberta Sharp, and James Neitzke in Albion and Maxine Easton in Coldwater. Helen Enos and Alvin Avery have employment In Tekonsha, Earl Ball and Nyle Lamb in Marshall, and Zell Rice in Battle Creek. Those who are still with us in Homer are: George Clarke, Kathleen Estelle, Norma Henderson, Bette Hickerson, Russell Trader, Don Weiss, and Harold Elston.

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lu„JLLL'Ai,, 2£l • • l“» T U 1 1 n TZ« TT li n i T f J i I 1 I. BUILDINC THE PEACE Parents, friends, and fellow classmates, it is a pleasure to be privileged to try to put into words for the class of 46 the aim, purpose, and ideals that we feel in our hearts. As you know, our motto is: Before us lies the timber, let us build. We are here tonight to dedicate ourselves to this purpose. The purpose of helping b.jild out erf the chaos of the war Just won, a lasting peace. The war is won it is true, but the peace is yet to be own. It is quite a different thing to win the peace than it is to win 1946 the war. V.ar is destructive. Peace is constructive. Our parents, our friends, our brothers, and our sisters have prepared the way for us. Our grandparents and great-grandparents have planted the seeds of freedom and Justice, and the brotherhood of man in the heart of our country. There it has grown. It has passed through years of hardships and years of prosperity. It has weathered the storms of life. These blessings we have inherited, and to them we must add. We must take the opportunities presented to us and help make a peace that shall be unbroken by war between nations. Some of our parents, friends, brothers and sisters have fiven their lives to end this war. Each of us has done his part whether on the attle front or on the home front, giving blood or gathering paper, tin, or scrap iron. Each of us must do his part as we did in war, by making sure there is freedom for everyone, by obtaining it for those brought before the courts, and last but not least, and the one that I consider the most important, the living together of all men in a brotherhood of love, of tolerance, and of fellowship. It may not be accomplished in our time. The task will be passed on to those of you who will graduate next year, and in many years to come. Let us dedicate ourselves this day to help make a peace that shall not tolerate war. Some of the timbers have been cut and hewn, but still others have not. We must set to work to seek the best of these remaining timbers and cut and hewn them into logs which will help to make the foundation and structure for peace. We entered school as small children to learn to read and write and do our arithmetic problems. We emerge from school with much more than that. We emerge with the knowledge that v.e have accumulated during our twelve years of school. Most important of these is that we have learned to think for ourselves, to reason things out, to search for the truth. W'e thank the men and women that have made it possible for us to attend school. We may be considered as young timber. Our parents, our friends, and our teachers have sheltered and helped us; and protected us; have started us growing in the right direction. It is now time for us to be self dependent. We are no longer sheltered as we were. We stand as a group of young people on the threshold of life. It is in our hands to build our lives and our characters so that they may stand as straight and tall as the giant redwoods, that our lives may be worth while. We are now about to graduate from high school. We have been approved by our parents and our teachers as having the knowledge to go out into the world and begin to take our places among the men and women who strive to make this a lasting peace. Appropriately the night on which we graduate is called Commencement, because we are beginning our lives. We look back and recall the good times we had. We look ahead and see work, hardships, and problems. But we look forward also to pleasure in successes and accomplishments. W’e look forward to our e-merging as men and women. We are resolved to do all we can to the best of our ability to help make this a better place in whichi to live, a better place in

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