Ludington High School - Oriole Yearbook (Ludington, MI)

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The second Oriole comes relating the events of the Class of '14 during its four years of high school life. 1N'e cannot estimate the value of this book. lt tends to awaken a keener interest for school activities both in the students and in the public. lt calls for work from the students ofthe highest standard and they use their best efforts to make it a success. The whole class Works as a machine to perfect it and in this way an enthusiasm is brought out among the students which otherwise would not have appeared. lt brings to the minds of the heedless citizens the work that is going on within the school. They unexpectedly find much good thought in this work and iinding this perhaps changes their ideas about the good derived from the course in our high sehool. ln the Oriole are the scenes known so well to the students. In it are the faces ot' those he daily meets again and again. Soon after graduation these scenes grow dim in our minds and more dim as the years go by. Then by turning the pages of the Annual. the forgotten scenes and faces are brought to mind. and with them a smile and a good thought. lt is a book with a far reaching value both during the present and for the future. Much credit should be given to the class that is the Iirst to continue in this work. Hugo Johnson, Class of 1913. Alumni Editor of Oriole Ludington. Mich. l received your letter and would be very glad to help you and l am also glad of the chance to have something in the t'Oriole'l from the Class of 1910. l can see a good many advantages in a high school educationg but I think the one that impresses me the most is: the necessity of a high school education for entering college. So along that line l would like to write a few words. By all means every one should have a H. S. training, especially the per- son w ho is going to college. There are many reasons why one should obtain his early training in a H. S. Do not plan to go to college and there take up the work you should have obtained in the 9th. 10th. 11th and 12th grades- l-iy that l mean. do not plan to take a Mprep course, as it is called in college. hut get your fundamental start in high school. The ttprepn man in college is in a class by himself. He has had no experience in high school debating. he has had no athletic training, in fact, he has no place in college activities. After every one else is provided for then they give the prep student what is left. Tie is hranded a pep and must remain so until he has the necessary work or the work he should have obtained in high school. then. he may enter college as a Freslnnan. - Besides avoiding this so called prep stage by completing the twelve grades. you will also t-ind that it is a great help. when the question is asked you. front what High School did you graduate? and you will be able to naine one. The question is always asked in some way or other when you apply for a position either as a teacher or for a position in some kind of business. The constant appeal heard from lecture platforms, from the professors in college. is the cry for the efficient man and woman, the person with the education. You may say. Hthere. that fellow has a good position and he only graduated froin the eight grade. He is drawing a good salary. But, did you ever stop to think. you with the high school training, when you have been at the job aslong as he has. how much further you will be ahead of him 1? GET A HIGH Stlltltlli ElJl't'A'l'lUN. REG, ISORROW, OR STEAL. HUT GET lT- lrvin K. Stough. Class of '10.

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THE CLASS OF 1911. K In reveiwing the events that occurred during the four years of our High School life, it has coine to iny mind that perhaps if I should attempt to narrate and describe every iniportant aehievenient which we attained, in their true light, the reader would be prone to believe that the Writer was laboring under an egotistic imagination. In consequence of this it would be better to inerely suggest a fact or two froni our authentic record and from these as a. standard, allow those who peruse this annual to judge for theniselves the inerits and ability of the Flass of 1911. On the social side of High School life, let it suffice to say that the banquet we gave to the Seniors at the Stearns Hotel near the close of our Junior year, was preentinently the Atfair in the social history of L- H. S. It has scarcely bee11 equalled. let alone excelled either before or since. As to mental ability. it is a singular fact that about one-third of our class averaged above 90 per cent. for their four years' work. Surely we are entitled to soine dis- tinction in the records of the Alunini. But inasmuch as the purpose of High School is not to exalt those who enter its class rooins, but rather to inipart to theni knowledge and training which will be of benefit to thein in later years, it is well to give a few reinarks in that regard. lt is in High School that both the individual and collective activities. in athletics, social events and inental endeavors alre first brought before the eyes of the public. The student. here first finds his work under the scrutiny of the outsider and naturally begins to niould his actions in ace cordance with this wider criticisni. Just as the first inipressions of child- hood are inost lasting. so that instruction derived froni our High School course. where the results of our endeavors were first brought to light. prove to be of lasting benefit to us in alfter life even though the hard knocks of a worldly experience seein to have erased all nieinory of our Ludington High SCIIOOI. I ' Dave Mero. Class of 1911. Dear Editor of the Alinnni Department: - My reply to your letter of the 21st of February becaine inislaid and it was only today. during one of niy nionthly clean-ups, that I learned that it had not been sent, ln it I asked what the nature of the inaterial was that you wanted. as l have but a faint idea what forin that contribution should take, Dut I realize that it will take rather a little fast moving on Uncle Sanus part Jo get a reply back and forth and everything fixed up O. K. before the tenth However. I will give you now what material l think you want and if it is not what you wish, maybe we can hurry the P. O, service up a little and niake things nn-et' Necessarily. what l give inust coine from nieinory and perhaps it would be well to get the class seeretary's book from liottie Hainilton, for details and corroborations-is that alright without a dictionary? The first 1912 class event which memory recalls was the contest in Lec- ture Vourse ticket-selling which we won thands down' and. although ineinories do come erowding in about that campaign, they are not the kind one likes to tell about in public. so l'll leave them out. but the reward is what sticks. I think evelivone who partook ot' a bart ot' that reward, well reinenibers how Misses Sterling. Vv'ilcox. Gilding, Sinith, Ha.skell'???, and all the poor little