Milford Township High School - Reveille Yearbook (Milford, IL)

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Twelve years is but a moment in the great ages of history, but in the life of an individual it is a long time. Therefore, the occasion which marks the height of our progress during this period of time, is one of considerable significance. To you this ceremony represents the development we have made, and perhaps the great amount of money and effort provided at your expense which has made possible this progress on our part. To us these things are represented in this commence- ment, but to us there is represented another thing-the end of our class as an ac- tive part of our school. As a class in M. T. H. S. we have come together for the last time. It is in recognition, of this that a valedictory or farewell address is made. And so it is that I have been chosen to say for our class these words of fare- well to our school. i It is with many regrets that we leave this school to go out into the world. We hope to show our appreciation for the many advantages you have given us in these years of training by taking our share of the responsibilities of citizenship of this community, and now, we bid you and the school, farewell. o SGIUfCf0I'Y Ladies and Gentlemen: Most all of us accept cheerfully the fact that we must earn our own living, and work hard all of our lives to do it, but many were so anxious to get started that they dropped out of school as soon as the law permitted them to do so, and eagerly accepted the first job offered to them which inevitably led to the long grind of an unskilled worker. These same individuals five years later see things from an entirely different angle for they are earning no more than when they started. Learn- ing on the job is slow hard work and although skill has been acquired, these workers have reached the limit of their earning capacity. They may change jobs from time to time, but they can earn no more, for they aren't trained for anything better. This is the experience of the majority of young people who do not finish

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C0ml'T16l'lCemel'1f Processional Invocation God Be With You -VU. G. Tomer Salutatory' Vocal Solo Une of the mother s Plano Solo An If for Girls Anonymous Trombone Solo X aledictorv Miss Lotus Lester Rev. Smith Class of '34 Edna Burger Floyd Pitzer Eleanor Wood Mary Spurgm Kathleen Sloan George Benner Mary Spurgm Presentation of the class of 4 Vernon L Plummer Presentation of Diplomas William Lyons Benediction Rev Davis Recessional Miss Lotus Lester Valecllctory Parents teachers relatives and friends Ar this time of the year all through thes United States people are meeting together for the same purpose that you have come here tonight to observe the graduation of our class from High School I sav our class because in a local sense we are but members of the Milford Township High School, but in a larger sense we belong to the group of young people all over the world who are finishing this second unit of their education in this year nineteen hundred thirty four It is as members of this larger group that we shall sooner or later take our places in the world of men and women Wliat these places are to be what problems and trials we shall have to face no one can say It is however in preparation for this future that we have spent the greater part ot the last twelve years of our lives in school Some of the happiest days hate been spent here Since we first began our e ucation we haye been together As graduates from Grade School we new LXLI'XIlllDg A few days as freshmen taught us an entirely different story Lach year we have tried to gain a lew grains of lenowledge and now at the close ol our our years o seeon ary worle we realize the many opportunities of whici y hate fall d to talee adxantage Ile xi y . H -. . s 1 . Q, ' J . e e - . s s . . s f -fa s N S . . . - s s f . s s e . e - . in 5 3 x v f ' I is - y s . - - Y ss . .s ss - ' s , V . V, s s , ., . '. ., ' ' v . . . v x 1 x Yr r U . y . . . ,. ,, e. - s s , e . . . . L e 4 vs v e is y 4 , 1 ' . V , , L e f ., . - d . , , ,e . '.. s 1 1 I V. Y. s '. , - it L e e 7 . J ,. efe l1iu11 e ef!

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hrgh school They cannot go any further or earn any more untll they have made up the h1gh school trammg they lack Hxgh School traxnlng IS mdrspensable If you are go1ng 1nto busmess you wrll xmmednately be faced by the fact that many though not all begmnmg jobs are closed to you because you are not a hrgh school graduate It IS necessary rn order to get ahead 1n any of the dnfferent l1nes of busmess to be able to vsrxte effectlve letters make reports and to talk mtelhgently wxth people on matters outsxde your danly work It IS tmpossxble for a concern to carry a man for several years or unttl he has developed sufhcxently to put hum unto a worth whxle job There are too many hrgh school graduates avaxlable young men and women who can take hold of a job after the routme of the work IS learned Wnrlm the lI1Zl'0dUCfl0l1 of women and machmery rn lndustry many of the places where a boy used to start to learn the busmess have disappeared What busmess needs today are young people who have been tramed to Illlllk Then there are the professxons lawyers and doctors These mdlvlduals are llcensed to practxce by the states who grant llcenses only to graduates of recognlzed h1gh schools and colleges Hence nf you really feel that your place 1n the world IS that of a lawyer or a doctor you have no choxce m the matter A college educatlon begms at the point h1gh school leaves off so m order that the mstructxon be understood you must have the preparatory work grven m the h1gh school Therefore lf there IS the slxghtest posstble chance of your go1ng to college you should finish your hrgh school work so you w1ll be prepared to enter the college you have chosen Another lme of work whxch may attract some who may have the ab1l1ty to lead and lnsplre students lS teachmg In most communmes a normal trammg xs requlred whxch can be had only after completmg the hrgh school course In order to become a prmclpal or superlntendent a hugh school educatxon as a basls for the specxalnzed work IS required Amerlca rs the only country m the world that offers a h1gh school educatxon to every boy and gxrl capable of recelvmg lt European countrxes prov1de SPEC13l1Z6d secondary educatton for those students who show that they w1ll profit by lf This secondary educatlon 1n Europe IS for leadershlp and teaches the duty owed to soclety In Amerlca the success of the government depends upon the educatnon of all of the people lxvmg wlthm nts bounds who are called upon to s lect those who shall govern and who must choose between good and bad issues A wxse choxce of leaders and the use of good judgment m selecttng a pollcy are the results of knowledge and of rdeahsm IQT . y . 9 5 . . . . V . . 7 9 . 1 . . ' 7 , . , ' 7 . . 1 . 5 7 , . . . . . . 8 'axe flirty