Lyons High School - Roar Yearbook (Lyons, OH)

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VALEDICTORY We, the senior class of 1951, are at the close of four years' work and we are looking into a new phaze of our life's experience. As we survey our hopes and ambitions, we cannot help but realize what a great number of re- sponsibilities and duties lie ahead of us. The future of our community and our nation lies in our hands. It is with re'gret that we come to the close of our high school experiences, but we have the satisfaction of arriving at the end of these happy days with the feeling of work well done. From these ex- periences we will go on. Some will continue in higher educational fields while others will be getting married, going to work, and serving the nation in the armed forces. Our country is facing another crisis and we are the ones who will have to assume the responsibility of deeping it out of World War III . We have found that right finally succeeds and that all disappointments and failures are but a part of experience. They make us take up .our work with more intelligence. We know that we rest to refresh our minds and bodies that our waking hours may be more keen and bright. We are bidding farewell to Lyons High School, but we are also welcoming the trials and joys of life. Success, failure, happiness, and bitterness will cross our path. We face the problem of an overcrowded world, in which we must take our place without using our elbows too much. The social life is now complete without us, we must make our way. Up to now our lives have been planned for us, but now, that is not so. We are facing the world as an adult. Our life will not be a bed of roses, with no thorns, but we look forward to doing many things to help our country. There ar'e many new fields open to us, if we can only find and utilize them. Our place in this world will be hard to find and we want our friends to help guide us so we can be good honest citizens. Our class motto, Love, Leanr, and Live , will help us along the road of life. If more people would follow this motto, there would be fewer wars and our country would be a more peaceful place in which to live. We will take these words out into the world with us and try to live up to them. By doing this we hope to accomplish goals that our ancestors did not. Wec the senior class of 1951, bid farewell to the faculty, the lower classmen. and the dear halls of Lyons High School. We are happy to be welcomed into a world of responsibility and reality. Joyce Lindsay

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SENIORS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE 12 YEARS FIRST ROW: Coretta Shuman, Ramona Miller, Reva Seigneur, .T oy c e Lind say, Lenora Peebles, Dora Jean Wagler, Donelda O'Nei11. SECOND ROW: Pat O'Leary, Charles Mowery, Paul Sanford, Ronnie Lahman, Frank Kennedy, Ivan Gillespie, .Tohn Smith. W SENIORS WHO HAVE .TOINED US FIRST ROW: Maxene Clendenin, Edith Felkey, Lois McCance, Joan Miller SECOND ROW: Leonard Tedrow, Charlene Sanford, Doris Hoffman, Kenneth Lambert

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SAL UTATORY As our schoolwork comes to an end, we look back and see all of the mistakes we have made in the twelve years we have been goingto Lyons High School. But, besides the mistakes, there are very many good things that happened to us also. This is somewhat like a basketball game, because you can always look back and see the mistakes you have made after the game is over. The most appropriate thing to do then is to make the best of the opportunity you have when you are in school or are participating in a sport. In schoolwork, just as in sports, you must have someone to teach you how to do the right thing at the right time. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the teachers who have helped me and the rest of my class to success in passing through all of the twelve grades necessary for gradua- tion. As we were going through the lower grades we thought the teachers were very harsh with us and we cou1dn't'understand why they wanted us to study as hard as they expected us to. As we continued on through the grades and finally succeeded in getting into high school we began to see why we were being sent to high school. In high school a person sees more of other people and finds that he isn't quite as well educated as he might have been if 'he had paid more attention to his teachers and studied as hard as he was capable of doing. In the grades you might think you are studying hard but when everything is done you see where you could have been more efficient. We may think our education is finished when we graduate from high school but in realtiy it is just beginning. Like any sport you have only learned the fundamentals when you are through high school. If someone wishes to play professional sports after he is out of high school he must start by going to the bottom and working his way up to the top. Then you must have experience to make yourself stand out with the people that will hire you. As you go along playing with the lower teams you become better and more acquainted with the sport you are participating in and you learn the tricks of the trade. This is true of life also. The longer a person wants to learn, the more he will learn about the reasons he succeeds or why he doesn't succeed. As we go out from high school to take our places in life, I hope every- body keeps in mind the fact that if a person doesn't put forth much effort he will not get much out of anything. Life is just like competitive sport, the more you put in, the more you will get out. Ivan Gillespie