Montpelier High School - Mirror Yearbook (Montpelier, OH)

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??41f2ilfl:2-+5lff1e:Si The ??fi1i--f:::f,f Ein:-.a N C. J. BOHNER BOARD OF EDUCATION We are proud of our Board of Education and are confident that every student looks up to each in- dividual on the Board with the utmost respect. These men are elected by the town's people and taxpayers. They receive no pay whatsoever and for this reason we should appreciate their untiring efforts to benefit the school in every possible way. These men have made it possible for our school to receive the rat- The class of ing that we have today. They are all merchants and business men that unquestionably know how to handle the affairs of the schools both progressively and financial- ly. Mr. C. Bohner is President of the Board and is assisted by Messrs. A. J. Brown, Perry Faulkner, W. C. Tedrow, and Ralph Boone, who are all experienced in this type of work. -Robert Willet 1931 desire to ex- press their sincere appreciation to the Board of Education for their every act of kindness in our behalf during the past year and assure them of our very best wishes.

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ng. 1' f y -1-lr ' 1 ' 11 if-!li?T2i-i T116 Timo It was twenty long years from the time Rip Van Winkle lay down to sleep until he awoke. It was two decades from the time he left his village escaping that henpeck- ed household until he returned to an existence of slothful idleness. Twenty years it took for a plot of green grass to become a rumbling cataract. During twenty years old Rip's wife died, his children grew up, he lost his dog, his gun became rusted. This all happened while Rip slept. Are we like Rip, sleeping through the twenty best years of our life? Are we letting the world pass on and fail to acknowledge us? Shall we awaken in twenty years and find all the changes due to decay and deterioration as Rip did, to find ourselves just what we were or a little worse than before we slept? Or shall we awaken, no, rather, remain awake, and find ourselves metamorphosed into grand beings having threshed the harvest of twenty years of labor? Shall the changes be due to growth and development? Is time pass- ing over our heads or are we tread- ing on the years? Two thousand years ago a Young Man stood in a little boat by the sea-side. He told the mul- titude of the lives of a few little seeds. Today this book is telling of the lives of forty-odd young men and women. But shall our story live two thousand years as that other tale has lived? Twelve years ago We planted the seeds of our lives, seeds which meant so little themselves but held such marvelous possibilities. We scattered them on the ground just as that sower did so many years ago. Some of them fell by the wayside and were eaten by the fowls. Those that alighted on stony ground took root and sprang up for a day. Some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked them, and they yielded no fruit. But those that buried themselves under a cover of rich earth are - with us yet. They are the standing grain. Will this grain, now in its youth, be stand- ing when the Mower comes to reap? -Eleanor Wells

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H A AAAA A A The MIRROR A BOARD OF EDUCATION PERRY FAULKNER A- J- BROWN W. C. TEDROW RALPH BOONE 13