Hopewell High School - Memories Yearbook (Hopewell, OH)

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I, Benny Wentworth, wlll my job of gettlng advertlsenents for the annual to Robert Loake We the Senlor Class as a whole w1l1 the fcllow1ng To Mr Mack, the janltor, wlll all the chew1ng um that left on th desks and Cha1PS To the faculty all of our SM11GS and happlness To the School Board all of the money ln the tre sury after Just debts are pald 1f there 1S any Thls b 11g our las w1ll and t stanent, re do hereby af f1x our seals and slgnaturcs on th1s the twenty slxth da of May, 1939 f'xw f Carlos Rlggle CLASS LAWYER ,iff-XX? f 1 Ass ff Duzepm JK Mr PY6S1d8Dt, Lad1es, and Gentlemen, I stand before you today Dossessed of far more than the ord1nary amount of dign1ty that falls to the lot of a human belng I say, I am a prophet I reallze, however that I mention th1s needlessly for around all prophets there floats a halo that s s us apart from the ordlmary man and woman of the streets or schoolroom At t1mSS we possess a glassy stare at others we answer d1fferently from that which the pub11c or oxr mwsgulded teachers expect or thlnk we should Added to these, is the slmple unexplaluable fact that I can easlly s1t down before an open book any open book and float away on the NASt1C W1HgS of proohecy and for hours at a time I can seo the future much more clearly than the present Therefore I feel lt my duty to pclnt the f1nger of the present to tho h1dden secrets of the future and place th1S 1nfornat1o1 fr ly and openly before m less fortunate classrates nvcn new as the year bev1n to spln away before me a V1StH opens 1nto the dlstant f1+zre years, 40, 50 60, 65 Behold' lhe flutterlng pages t1me are stlll The world 1105 before me 1tS C1t1GS 1ts farms, lts people, all clear We will step for a moment on to the steady escalator streets of a marble c1ty At once our ears TGCOQUIZP that famlllar vo1ce we've heard before In SHFPTISC we look 'nl 1 Q . . . A ' - o . Y W . . . .. , b . . . . 7 I D Q l . . 1 S G 1. , . . 1 A . - ' Cx. , . . Q ' 1 . C I- 1'r m - - ' . . - . 1 ' Y 1 ,-L30-A '.'Tbnf . IH, Z- 1,54 1.1 : -f5ffTyy35 .uf ' , A -- V - , xr' ... I, 1-'ILS ,l f ' '.,f' .-.5 - fi ' - 'I fl' I E ' . f- 1 i ' f' f 'J . r S 3 , , ,. 'x ' rn:':.? i.. '. ...j.j,:'. .141 j 'fl .'.'. . ,f,'f-, :..'.f.':L.:.'. .- . '.'I'.'I'f'.'f' :'-'- 'f':'f . f'. f'.I.' . ' jf:-f:f:f'.:j: fg.,fn .f 'f-1-'Z '.'.j.'.' .1:I-.'f'f'I:I'Q.jl:.jQ jQ j'f-,:':j:,:'.: . ll.. I: I .GI .Ei-:-I.,:::::.5j.:.:?:-l. :l?.:l.l..::::::,:.: 0 9 - . . . . o - Y Q , . I 4- ' . . G , A . U . . , J J I , . . . . A 1 ., . . 9 4 , . I . ' . I on ' Q A I - Q ,, 1 . . . - I A . . . . . 1 I U8 .-, ' 1 U . . ,. , ,, g U 3 . . . . , v A , 20 , E . ' ' of . . . . . . . . A 11 , . o . 1 . . . . Q -. ' ' ' '1, ' ' ..a.. 'v