Houghton High School - Amygdaloid Yearbook (Houghton, MI)

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and' ARVO GARY To be of use in the world IS the onlx wav to be happx BEAUCHAMP THEREQA Ixot by xears but by disposition is wisdom re quired BOGOSOFF MARY XNLN Sho. that has patiente can compass anything -XHOLA FREDERICIX A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds AHO HENRY Lifg is but a thought' BOWLUS ROBERT Minds that hate nothing to confer find little to pergeixe BALFOUR ALICE I shall laugh m5 self to death. BOYD, WILLIAM No bird soars too high if hc soars with his own wings. l2

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B111 Boyd Salutatory Parents teachers members of the school board and frlends We the graduatlng class of l952 slncerely welcome you to our class nlght CXCFCISCS Durxng these past seventeen or etghteen years we have accumulated a debt whtch we w1ll never be able to repay 1n full the debt whxch we owe to you our parents and our teachers If II were not for your patrent understandxng and gu1dance none ot us would be upon this stage tomght greetlng you as graduates of this hlgh school To you we are truly grateful Throughout our relatlvely short l1ves we have acted 1n accordance wlth our class motto A Journey of a thousand mrles begms wlth one step Cons1der for a moment the realrty and prud ence of these words In our l1V6S and 1n many generations before us these words have been ex emplrfted over and over agarn The anc1entEgypt1ans,1n the bu1ld1ng of thexr mammoth pyramxds began each structure w1th the laytng of a s1ngle comparatlvely small stone The Crusaders started the1r long and tedrous Journey to the Holy Land wtth one step and many of them made the whole trip one step after another by foot In the f1eld of early scrence Archrmedes a famous ancrent Greek mathe matrcran and philosopher establrshed h1s stlll widely used pr1nc1ple of buoyancy by noting the use rn the water when he stepped mto hts bath tub Other famous physxcrsts have taken very srmple steps ln found1ng and provrng var1ous laws of DhyS1CS For example Galileo by srmply dropplng two dtfferent welghts from the Leanlng Tower of Plsa and showtng that both struck at the same tlme established hrs law of falllng bodxes Newton by ldly watchlng an apple fall from a tree recelved the xnsplratton that led htm to estabhsh h1s laws of gravrtatlon Abraham Ltncoln the Great Emanclpator took the flrst steps tn h1s dynamxc and awesome career 1n a shabby lrttle backwoods cabm tn Kentucky Durlng the Frrst and Second World Wars many Amerxcan men took the f1rst step tn a Journey from whrch some dldn t return from wh1ch some returned w1th bodres or m1nds shattered by the crushlng hand of war from whtch some returned as heroes Through these generauons there have been unfortunately those who took one step tn the wrong d1rect1on toward d1shonesty and crlme As they journeyed along the path of m1sdeeds there were some who realxzlng that they were gorng 1n the wrong d1rect1on turned around and fought thetr way backfrom the bunk of devastat1on Others contmued on to ru1n and destructxon Wtthtn our own class the struggle through twelve years of educatlon was started wrth very small steps 1l'1 the prlmary grades As the years wore on our steps became longer and the road often was strewn wrth obstacles over whlch we slowly had to cllmb Ftnally as m the cases whxch I have menuoned the fxrst and many ensuxng steps add up to produce a Journey whrch IS rndeed an accompllshment We have reached a memorable mlle stone 1n our Journey through llfe our graduatlon We look back over the long years and see that the road although lmed wrth hardshlps also had many havens of happ1ness To many of comes the thought I wlsh I could do II all over agarn However our destlnatton lS not here but ahead beyond many more miles of hardshlp The mam purpose of stopprng and revlewrng the obstacles whtch we have overcome IS to gxve us re newed courage to go ahead and make our lrves the llves of the people tn th1s natlon and all the natxons of the world full of SCCUTIQ' and happmess' ll . . , ' 2 . , . . I ' . .. . . I . . I . , . I l . ' - - ' - - - I u ..' .. . . ' '- . t - I ' I I ' . . . . . . . ' I . D ' I . . ' . ' .. . . ' . ' . ' .. I . . . . l 8 ... D , . . ' I . ' . . . ' . . H . . .I ,i U , , . us I I . . . ' . , I . - 1 . . . . . . .I , .

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BRLNEAL NIMUORIE Help th,seIf and God MII help thee CARNE ROBERT It rs not 1n passtng through these Iearmngs that hurts us but the dwelhng and suckmg about them CH APIIT BERINARD As truc as I Irve COPOINEIN GLORIA Present mrrth hath present laughter CHAPUT CAROL I flnd earth not grey but rosy Heaven not grxm but fa1r of hue DALE ROBERT Why care for grammar as long as we are good? DE MARS VALERIE Anythmg for a quret lrfe ELWELL HELEIN hextto acqurrxng good frrends the best acqursr tron IS that of a good book I ', I .. V V- ,, R Y V , . . ,, A I Y . Y v .. - Y . . ,, I v. V .. f Y I ,, , . . . . . I 17 J