Lena Winslow High School - Win Nel Yearbook (Lena, IL)

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hvfzz-114 I SALUTATORY JANET TYLER Dear friends: It is my pleasure and privilege tonight to greet you in the name of my classmates and extend to you a sincere welcome. To you, we hope this may be a pleasant occasion, but even so, it is just one of many in your life. To us, it is a great occasion, the goal toward which we have been striving during the past four years. To you, it may be but a pleasant place to be entertained and while the time away, to us, it is one of the milestones of life and bound to live forever in our mem- ories. The interest you show in us by coming here is sincerely appreciated, and we trust you may long remember with pleasure the associations of this hour. To you, who can remember your own thoughts on similar occasions, this will be a reminder of those happy days and will bring to you an understanding of our hopes and aims. To our parents, who have planned and sacrificed many things in helping us reach this goal, this commencement must surely be one of great pride and joy. It is you, dear parents, who have realized our need of a high school education and have given us all the assistance and encouragement within your power to help us obtain this education. We have tried to show our appreciation by our perseverance and by making the most of the opportunities which you have given us. To our teachers it is an hour of happiness in our success and sorrow, we trust, over the necessary parting. It is you who have contributed much to our success during our four years of high school by your unfailing kindness and patience. The examples you have set, the ideals you have held up before us, and the principles you have taught us have been an influence which will follow us through life. We hope that you will find us ever faithful to those virtues as we face the problems of life. As for us, this occasion closes one of the most important periods in our life. Yet it is not the end of our education, but only the preparation for work that lies before us. The time has come when we must leave the associations of the high school and step out alone-no longer Seniors in school life but one and all-Freshmen in life's school. As we are all joining you in the school of life, taking our places in the social and business activities, we seek from you the hand of welcome. Be ready, then, dear friends, to applaud our every effort and encourage us in our endeavors to obtain greater success, as we, the class of 1934, welcome you to this, Our Commencement. I Qjij Page Twenty-two

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77,121 - l1'L'!k--.---a..L-.-.-..-- ----L.--..t .w.,, . ,1. . , -. ,.,.. ------..... VALEDICTORY BY MARGARET MCKELVEY Dear Parents, Teachers, and Classmates: We are assembled here tonight that we might bid each fellow classmate a last farewell. Our high school days have been filled with pleasant memories that we can never entirely forget. Our sorrow at parting will soon pass away and leave us alone with our memories. Our life may be likened to that of an air pilot and our high school days to those of reparatory instruction. Let us consider our teachers as the mechanics in life and? think for a moment of all we owe to these worthy friends-our teachers. Theirs is a life of service. They have prepared us for life's journey in every way possible, Going back to our comparison we might say the mechanics have over- hauled the planes and made ready for our solo flight. Every year the teachers prepare a graduating class for life's work and our success is theirs. Some of us will not stop with the preparatory instruction but go on and on in search of knowledge. These are the commendable persons who will gain fame in life and whose example will be a beacon light for younger ilots in the days to come. Of course we realize that all of us will not be able to seek fnurther instruction because of handicaps, financial or otherwise, but remember the motto: They can, who think they can. Then, too, we must not forget the parents who have provided us the hysical body or the plane. It has been their kindness and care that has saved us flfom the trials and storms of life. Most of us here tonight have not experienced deep sorrow, worry, and care. Our life up to this time has been a happy one. We might say that our planes have been merely taking frolicsome little trips over the aerodrome. Some of us here tonight are confident while others are afraid of life. Why should we hesitate? The step must come to one and all when he must make his life his own. Longfellow says: Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Tonight will probably be the last time in which our class will be assembled as a body. Soon we must cpart and go our separate ways. For most of us our days of preparation are over an we must now make use of our knowledge. Soon our life will be our own. Then-the solo flight. Some will soar hi her than others. So it is with life. We cannot all be great but the application ofgour high school training means much in our flight toward success. There are many hazards in 1ife's journey. Heavy winds, storms, air pockets, or flames might send an unsuspecting pilot crashing to destruction. Here one can only learn from experience. Follow the example and teachings of the Supreme Pilot. He will gui e you in your perilous journey and will direct you toward the much desired goal. A And now dear classmates my parting wish is for success in your solo flights and above all a happy landing. Page Twenu-one

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711171-11t'l CLASS PROPHECY JETTA LEVERTON While attending the World's Fair in Chicago during the summer of 1934, I entered a building and found two glass globes there. The guide told me that when looking into the globe a statement would be read about each one whose name came into my mind. I decided to find out something about each one of my classmates. This is what I read. Marian Augsburger is a teacher in the Beloit High School. She is teaching the two subjects, Latin and English, that she always did enjoy. Theron Brauer is president of the Rayhorn Delivery Company. He also plays basketball on the Winslow Town Basketball Team. Florence Burgin is teaching the Snake Hollow School. She has taught this school for five years. Margaret Heitz took a nurse's course soon after graduation. At present she is working in the Mercy Hospital at Janesville. Evelyn Jordan has become famous because of her new cake recipe. She has been working in the Franklin Bakery at Des Moines, Iowa, after months of experi- mentation has successfully completed the new recipe. Margaret McKelvey is a teacher and is teaching in the high school at East St. Louis, Illinois. She is very strict and will not allow anyone to do the things she did while in high school. I wonder if the saying that if a person is a cut-up in school when she becomes a teacher she will have very strict discipline, applies to her. Woodrow Keener is a professor in Johns Hopkins University. He has enlarged upon Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Marjorie Klemm is a lady taxicab driver in Dubuque. She has a great honor because she is the only lady taxicab driver in the city. Mildred Kuhl is a farmerette. She owns the largest farm near Winslow and manages it very successfully. Howard Smith became interested in drawing and took a course in it. His fame was established by the cartoon, My Old Home Town. Lee Owen Stamm has joined Ringling Brothers Circus as the smallest strong man in the world. Marcella Stamm is.a leader of the McConnell Band which she organized about three years ago. It has twenty-five members. After graduation Janet Tyler attended Beloit College where she met the man of her choice. She now is in high society in Chicago. Wilma Zunker attended the University of Illinois where she studied Home Economics. She now is a dietitian in the Michael Reese Hospital at Chicago. Soon after graduation William Rice began work for the F. W. Woolworth Company in Chicago. Because of his good work he was promoted until he now is manager of the store. Harold Miller is proprietor and owner of the Pleasant Hill Dairy Farm. He may be seen on the street every morning at four o'clock. . Leona Mauerman attended a music school in Chicago. At present she is teach- ing piano lessons and has fifty pupils. Norman Leck is a veterinarian who attended school at Madison. He has lately replaced Dr. Rabe. Doris Kunkle took a course in story writing and now is writing for the McCall's Magazine. Marie Leck had taken piano lessons after her graduation. She at present is teaching music to twenty-five pupils. Having finished the list, I wondered how all this could be possible when I had seen my classmates just a few months ago. Reading farther I found that this was a prophecy of what each would be doing in 1954. f9.v! Page Twemgf-three