Mason High School - Anchora Yearbook (Mason, MI)

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M. H. s. ANCHORA, 1927 23 March ....,., Invocation .,.., Salutatory ....,,,, Class Poem ...... ..--- Class Day Program President's Address s..,. History ....,,...... - - -- - Lorraine Kenfield Rev. W. R. Prescott ---Frances Brower --Fredah Francisco -. .------- John Dean - - - - -Philetus Peck Giftatory ---- ----- C harles Davis Prophecy ---- --Madeliene Ireland Class Will--- --------- John Chapin Valedictory ---- --Margaret Eggers Benediction---, -Rev. J. T. M. Knox Commencement Program Music -------.- ----- H igh School Orchestra Invocation ------------- ------- R ev. J. T. M. Knox Music .....-------------- ------------ G irls' Glee Club Commencement Address ---------------------- Dr. William Gear Spencer Vocal Solo ------------------------------- - ------ Miss Margaret Wells Violin Obligato, Sarah Bullen Presentation of High School Diplomas ------- ---- -------- V. J. Brown Presentation of County Normal Diplomas ---- ------- C . E. DeMeritt Benedlctlon ----------.-------- , ------- - -.-- Rev. W. R. Prescott

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M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 lin 1H1Ie1nnriam Hilah Paine Died December 1, 1924 Tho' lost to sight to mem'ry dear Thou ever Wilt remain.

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24 M. H. s. ANCHORA, 1927 Salutatory The class of Nineteen Twenty-seven extends to you a most hearty welcome. For, indeed, who should be more welcome than you, dear friends, who have made this day possible, you, who have so generously provided this beautiful school building and so faithfully backed our every project and enabled us to graduate from an institution which shall ever be our pride? We see on the eastern horizon a new day dawning, a day in which we must prove our ability to overcome obstacles, to resist temptations, and to be successful. We have laid our foundation under the guidance of our parents and teachers and now we must build, on that foundation, our future. We will greatly miss our teachers' helping hands, for we must solve our own problems now, those complex problems of life that always shall remain to be solved, with every individual obtaining a different answer. As the sun daily passes from east to west, sometimes hidden by the clouds but always coming out from behind the dark and gloomy places with a greater grandeur, so shall we be doing our daily work, sometimes meet- ing obstacles that apparently overwhelm us and make us feel hidden in the world. When life seems the darkest, when our hopes are washed away as by the rain, and our air castles fall to ruin as if torn up by the raging winds, then our efforts to overcome these hindrances must be most sincere and firm and we can then draw aside the curtain of gloom and, coming into the light, smile and be happy in a success earned by labor in joy and in sorrow. And lo! When we have reached the twilight of life we shall look back upon trials and our successes and feel the satisfaction that comes from knowing we have done our best. We do not know what the sunset of our lives may be, we would know only through experience and the life we will lead, but in the mind of every Senior is the vision of a rosy and golden sunset, the last days of his life being spent in the comfort gained by earn- est and sincere efforts and by the help of the One Friend who is ever watching over him and guiding his life, his dearest and best friend, with whose help alone the realization of his ambitions and the happiness of his life can be possible. Frances Brower.