Marcellus High School - Wildcats Yearbook (Marcellus, MI)

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world in which races and countries are mutually tolerant is likely to be a world at peace. The responsibilities of the future are appalling, but we are confident that they will be borne to a successful solution in time. With us We carry youthful enthusiasm, which is with difficulty restrainedg youthful optimism, which trusts in the ultimate victory of goodg and youth- ful idealism which fights not only for a new world, but for a better world. With these aims ever in our minds, dear friends, I thank you once more for coming, and extend to you in tlve name of the class of 1944, our most grateful and sincere welcome. -Irene Reiff

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SALUTATGRY Parents, Members of the School Board, Faculty and Friends: We wish to welcome you to our Commencement exercises--one of the greatest occasions in our lives as yet. After 13 years of study and play, we are on the threshold and opening the door to the world of the future where our successes and failures will be deter- mined largely by ourselves. We wish to express our profound appreciation to the school board, who have made provisions for our educationg to the faculty, who have guided our footsteps in the halls of learning, and to our parents whose loving interests and self-sacrifice have brought us to this place of achievement. We feel that in many respects, young people of our generation are facing a greater challenge than any pre- ceeding generation-I say this after viewing the troubled world around us. Of a certainty in the un- tangling of the knotty problems which confront us to- day, those of us who are just stepping from the com- parative shelter of high school must take an active part. In the midst of chaos though we are, we still have visions of a new world. We hope that what we have learned in school has prepared us for our place in re- building that world. One of the problems which confronts us as we look out into the future is that of race hatred. This must be eliminated. It is a hindrance to the high ideals for which our country is working. There is no place for hatred of other races and discrimination against them in the practices of a country whose people reverently and earnestly believe that All men are created equal. We firmly believe that in the world of the future, we must have, not racial discrimination, but a tolerance which admits the fine points of all. As the distance be- tween all countries is becoming less, it is for our gener- ation to dissolve the feeling of race superiority and to recognize a definite place for each race and creed. A

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY CHAPTER I In the beginning our class was without form and order. Superintendent Oliver H. Jensen therefore said Let there be a class meeting, and there was a class meeting. And it came to pass Arthur Bradley emerged from the multitude as president, Harold Ritter as vice presi- dent, Marilyn Fredericks as secretary, and Charles Cooper as treasurer, Miss Elizabeth Kaechele as class tadgisor. A monthly tax of ten ducats was levied on the ri e. And behold! The class of '44 looked upon their work and saw that it was good. It was the custom in those days for the Sophomores to give unto the Freshmen an initiation and it was done. A feast was partaken of in the eventide. During our sojourn in the land of the green, our Priests of Learning were: High Priest, Oliver H. Jensen, who taught us about the wonders of the universe: Priestess Paula S. Mack, who presided over the Depart- ment of Literature, Priestess Violet E. Rohrer was in command of Latin studies, Priest David Ross, in charge of our athletic activities: Priestess Verna Fenstermacher, authorized in Corinthian and Gallic Art. Our master woodworker was Priest Leo V. Bent. The art of Home- making was taught by Priestess Elizabeth Kaechele, while Priest Jacob Huttenga presented to us the Com- mercial side of life. Zael Carpenter was Keeper of the Fires. And Behold! There came into our midst Misses Eleanore Mattke and Lois Proctor and from out of the same departed Robert Furtenbaugh, Marjorie Tucker, Arthur Bradley, and Irene Reiff. This ended the year with much glory for us. CHAPTER II The next year we again assembled in the temple of learning. The rites of selection were again performed. Catherine Porath became president, Malcolm Hirshey, vice presidentg Virginia Pfost, scribeg Jack Bair, alms- keeper. Miss Kaechele was again chosen to lead toward the Promised Land. A change was made in our priests and priestesses this year. Priestess Violet Rohrer was replaced by Dorothy Nelson: Priest David Ross by Sherman Martin: