Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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1873-1923 Uld l.. ll. S. is passing a milestone. The June class is leading her. We are nnarehing with tlying banners, roaring drnnis and shrieking lifes. NVe, the elass of June. have carried our Alina Mater past her fiftieth milestone. We are the fiftieth elass to graduate. the fiftieth tn tile out from her pruteet- ing walls into the t'resh elear air uf June. For fifty years nien and wmnen have gone forth fruin her portals. prepared tu nieet life's hattles. She has hnilt. for the Inost part. strung nien. Men who feared evil. who respeeted guverninent. and prineiples. Her lnen had rather die than luring dislmnor hmne. They had rather nieet de- feat than gain unnierited vietury. lVhen the -Tune 19225 elass-the senii-eentenllial elass-receives its di- phnnas. the alnnini uf Lansing High Sehoul will lnnster full Zi,tNl0 strong. The lirst elass ntnnhered hut three. The January and June. 19222, elasses together nnniher exaetly 1100. The total nnniher of graduates for the lirst twenty years was ISS. harely more than the nuinher graduating this June. The next twenty years, 18925 to 1912! saw 1050 jnin the ranks. while the last ten years have added 17432 to the roll. These few tignres retleet strikingly the growth of our City and sehonl. as well as the inereased insistence npnn a high sehtml edneation hy the emninnnity at large. May the fair nanie and good falne of mir Alina Mater spread farther and with ever hetter reasun. keeping paee in the next half eentury. not only with the increasing lllllllllf?l'S. hnt alsn with the greater opportunities presented tu the nneuining generations. Puyf- Une Hnnflred Tiro

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