Lillis High School - Lillislog Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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'UNFINISHED BUSINESS’ All great people, when we come to think of it, living as nature lives— When an acorn fallen from an oak at last splits husk, sprouts, and begins to take root, how much unfinished business lies ahead of it! It has no contract with the sun and rain to have become an oak tree by a certain date. But with their help it will grow until it towers and spreads shade, in the good time we call God's. We ought as trustingly to let our plans and problems ripen to solution, knowing there is another Hand in the business beside our own. To leave a question to unfinished business is not to abandon the task. It is to attain the maturity and strength to carry on with it when the call to effort comes.

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LILLIS- THE MIGHTY OAK” m V r s ■ Ki Ki ii'. I suppose everyone, or nearly everyone who has been privileged to share the experiences and cooperation that has spirited our school has come away treasuring a memory comparable only to ''the mighty oak. We must remember that there is much in the business of our lives that we cannot hasten, for all the urgency of speed that today devils us. There is much— and this is true of the most important of our affairs— that cannot be concluded in a day, or a week, or a month, but must be let to take a guided course. J!. ii., « L •“

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In the observance of twenty-five years of service, MAYOR CHARLES WHEELER presents the Key to the City to COACH MINTNER at half-time during the game with the Hogan Rams.