McKinley Middle School - Mirror Yearbook (Cedar Rapids, IA)

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McKlNLEY MlRROR 5 XVl1o is it that the office guarils'l .M Miss Marsh! iNVl1o is -it that the grades recorcl? Miss Marsh! NVho lightly trips to stncly hall, With bulletins that interest all, Or brings the slips for a phone call? Miss Marsh! Who sells the tickets for the g2l1l1GS'i! Miss Marsh! Who 's always pleasant, sun or rain? Miss Marsh! NVl1o oils thc wheels, makes all parts smootlill Sells pictures, mirrors-even food, And classifies our every IIIOVG? Miss Marsh! Who's always busy, always gay? Miss Marsh! Who helps us in a tliousancl ways? Miss Marsh! Alike to student, teachers, all, In all the tasks that to her fall, Our kindly thoughts will her recall, Miss Marsh! We'1l miss her in so many ways, Miss Marsh! V 511875 helped us through so many days, Miss Marsh! We c:,111't replace her, is our fear, Let's join our voices, loud and clear, Meliinleyltes all hold her dear: Miss Marsh!

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Spring lliuala Prize Poem The March Wind is a braggart But his bragging is in vain, For the violets listen only . To the love song of the rain. And what with all his boasting Can he ever hope to gain, Against the soft persuasion, Of the tender April rain? --Velma Holets, 9 A

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If A 6 M MQKINLEY MIRROR Books have been called the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom ' TODAY Prize Editorial - Today does not mean, merely at date on at calendar, or a time between sun- rise zind sunset. It means more! It means at highly developed generation, and is the result of the labors of our forcfathersg it is a time of pence and plenty. lt is u century of inventiong it is the golden age of seienee. I Our wonderful country of today has been in the making for generations upon generations. Our prosperity of today is due to the fact that our uneestors hnve eased the path of life by braving the terrors lurking in a new and une civilized continent, clearing the land, breaking the sod, and pressing continue nlly Westward. Many of us are not thinking of the future generations. We should be building for tomorrow, not just for today. Scientists and inventors should be working with the view of bettering for the future generations the prosperity we know today, so that we may pass, undimnied to others, the light which has been given to us. This is my interpretation of the frieze culled Today, which is on the wall in the library. -Dorothy Howe, 8-BE, Meliinley. Miss Dorothy Kurtznmn of the nrt depzutxnent, painted the landscapes in the frieze of Today that is in the library over the bookeuses. The present 9-B girls did the lettering. TODAY Here hath been dawning Another blue dayg Think will thou let it Slip useless away. Out of eternity This new duy is born: Into eternity At night will return, Behold it nforetime, No eye ever didg So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. -Thomas Carlyle.