Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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Class Day Exercises IONIA HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS WEDNESDAY. 9 A. M„ JUNE 22. 1910 MARCH . . . HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA (Annual Winding of the Oak Leaf Chain) SALUTATORY .... GEORGE TAFT HISTORY.....................ETHEL CONNER (Aided by Will Bouck, Harry Cobb. Marion Spencer and Grace Beattie) PHROPHECY . . HELEN JANE WILKINSON (Aided by Corinne Wolverton and Eva Klingenberg) MUSIC............................. ORCHESTRA GIFTORIAN'S ADDRESS . HAZEL GOODWIN VALEDICTORY . . . WILLIAM DOUGLASS CLASS SONG.................CLASS OF 1910 MUSIC....................... ORCHESTRA

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Senior Class Roll Helen J. Wilkinson Literary Editor Sigh; Athletics Wisdom married to immortal verse. Edna Warren Senior Play; Art Editor Sigh Be good and you'll be happy, but you'll miss a lot of fun. Class Song A SENIOR is extremely queer his teachers all declare, He’ll flunk and fool and shirk and grin and finish passing fair, They’re not that way nor never were these gentle maids and men, These model Seniors of nineteen hundred ten. Chorus: Good bye, good bye, we’re sorry we have to go; Good bye, good bye, we know' you’ll miss us so; In future years w'e know' that you will want us back again; The model Senior Class of nineteen hundred ten. A teacher does some funny things the seniors all can say; He shouts and howls and rushes round and talks the time away. And shocks our gentle gravity in a way beyond the ken Of the model Senior Class of nineteen hundred ten. Our William is the model of a burning, shining light, He puts aside all childish things and works with pure delight; He never will, he never can, be frivolous again, In the model Senior Class of nineteen hundred ten. Miss Daniels is a fair extract of that queerly teaching set; She, too, loves work and does not play—because of past regret. She’s passing life in loving and in luring to her den The model Senior Class of nineteen hundred ten. We once were fresh and verdant, though now we’re stern and grave We’re models of good students, and well we do behave; Perhaps you think we’re bluffing for they do it now and then In the model Senior Class of nineteen hundred ten. JANE COURTER.

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Salutatory BY GEORGE TAFT. '10 P ATRONS, friends, members of the Board of Education, teachers and classmates, we greet you. We have today reached the con- summation of our hopes as high school students. The moment is at hand for which we have waited for four years, the point on which our eyes have been fixed since our first morning as Freshmen, an occasion made dear to us through our hopes and our aspirations. On this June morning when everything is so joyous and full of life, we beg of you to share with us some of the enthusiasm which we feel surging through us. Go back to the days when you were graduates, bring back those fond memories and put yourselves in a position to con- sider with us the meaning of Commencement Time. This day ends our first step in tin; preparation of what is to follow. IIow well we are pre- pared, the superstructure of the coming years will determine. When a mason sets out to build a tower he must insure a firm founda- tion before he can go on with the structure. Then as the work progress- es scaffolds have to be erected, one on the other. He must also be very careful in his actions, for a misstep will mean a fall, possibly death, and he must be scrupulously accurate about his measurements, for a single stone misplaced will mean failure when the work is completed. At last it is all but finished and he is reaching up to place the last stone, it is done! He has reached the acme of his profession. Everything is perfect and the completed tower stands ready for the use for which it was intended. Thus it is with ourselves, our character growth and de- velopment. When we are young we move under our parents’ guidance and with their help form a strong foundation for after life. As we grow older we must needs depend more and more on our own efforts, be more careful of our actions and little by little assume the cares and duties of life. Through all these experiences we are building our structure, using at each successive stage that which we have before acquired as a foun- dation. A life fully developed along such lines for us all spells success, success in the sense that every opportunity for development has been seized and improved and the finished product is therefor well nigh pei- fect. Success, however, of this nature is not easy to attain, for just as the mason may mar the beauty of his structure by a single blunder so we may thwart our purpose by a simple mistake. If the mason had not been thoroughly prepared, efficiently trained for his work, nothing