Laingsburg High School - Looking Glass Yearbook (Laingsburg, MI)

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RUBY GIBBS THELMA AUSTIN President BURT AUSTIN S ecre tary LEORA ARTHUR Vice-President Treasurer fee SOPHOMORE CLASS ROLL fue Katherine Schroeder Anthony Ferrigan Arlene Galligan Josephine Hurst Marjorie Cross Delmar Leifler Helen Hamilton Joseph Koonter Gordon Austin Thelma Austin Paul Thompson Anna Ferrigan Gordon Harmon Iris Matthews Roger Morgan Arthur Henry Vesta Benton Dimond Looke Leora Arthur Harold Doyle Hall Arthur Burt Austin M-arie Remus Fern Acker Joseph Dunn Ruth Jones Ruby Gibbs Mabel Sieb Leo Church Flay Wilson Wayne Wert Alba Wert

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THE COMET

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Valedictory Clifford Gibbs Whence is thy learning? Has thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil. We have at last reached the climax of our High School career. For four years we have followed that motto, Onward and Upward, as a guiding star to commencement. It is the supreme moment of our l1ves for the golden opportunities of life itself lie before usg within grasp of everyone that has the initiative, ambition, and desire to obtain them. All the higher circles of human intelligence are, to those beneath, only momentarily and partially open. There is a celestial gravitation in every mortal, a spark of the Infinite, a spiritual hunger which, if fed and nourished, will lead to the upbuilding and developing of a great soul. The pursuit of education is the elevation of the standards of life, a desire to explore the realm of greater knowledge. What advantage has it been for us to complete our High School course? First, satisfaction and contentment of work well done. Second, the development c-f character and intellectual ideals. Third, the oppor- tunity for the continuance into the higher fields of education. The first thing a High School graduate should do is to choose a careerg then set about to make it a success. There is no one thing that will touch the life to a finer purpose as the habit of reaching out for something a little better than we have done before, yearning for im- provement. Procrastination is the thief of time, it is the greatest impediment on the road to success. As the pages of the great Book of Life are slowly turned this becomes more evidentg for time once lost can never be regained. Goethe once said: Man is not born to solve the problem of the uni- verse, but to find out what he has to do--and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. No other form of poverty can compare with mental destitution. Though a man may own neither houses nor lands nor money, yet, if he has a cultivated mind and a broad mental horizon, if the door of his intellect has been opened wide. so that he drinks in beauty and intelli- gence wherever he goes, and if he has developed his sympathies so that he is in touch with life at all points, he has found the secret of success and happiness. How little of all the marvelous energy generated through life shows up finally in the white light of achievement, of noble living, of perfected character. What is success? It is often thought of as the favorable or pros- perous termination of anything attempted. Again in a broader meaning it is the outcome or result of an undertaking whether good or bad. Therefore even though you fail in the end, if you have done your best- that is success. , With eyes fixed on an ideal, you must work with heart and hand and brain, with a faith th at is clear-visioned, with a patience that is akin to genius, to reach the gleaming heights of success.