Montpelier High School - Mirror Yearbook (Montpelier, OH)

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A LONG JOURNEY Each begins life on a new plane, a new course, which is so filled wiTh inTeresTing ways ThaT These new ones, which have noT been Travelled offen enough To be securely marked, fade and become losT in The maze of inTorsocTing ways, lefT by The many who have passed before. Influences greaT and small exerf Themselves upon us and, swayed by our herifage we swerve in one direcTion, while insfilled by ideas and ideals of our companions we Turn in anoTher. Likewise our course is diverfed by The Teeming acTion of school life, The divulgence of leisure hours, and laTer in The selecfion of a career, unTil suddenly we find iT exceedingly difficulf To Trace The road we have Traveled, BuT how easy iT is for us To see, To Trace The paThs of The men and. yes The women of The pasT. and even Those who live around us Today. BuT VfRG'N'A COOK here we musT pause, we musT realize how easy iT will be for The paTTern ThaT our confinual Turning and swerving has fashioned, To be dissecfed by The men and women of The fufure, yes and even of The presenf. LeT us Taken an accuraTe counT of The many who sTarTed life, wiTh'opporTuniTies equal To ours, who were perhaps our earliesT friends oufside The haven of home. Are They Today following a paTh parallel To ours? Nay friends, we find few if any, who are. Each has framed his life, has followed a paTh according To The dicTaTes of his genuis and The influences exerTed in his life. Have we been wise? Were our friends wise? We feel alone, we experience 'The feeling ThaT whaTever we do from now on resTs in our hands. We have passed The sfages in which life is moulded, The sTages during which we could be Turned like marioneTTes, To The righT or The lefT, by The hand of an advisor or well meaning Though off Times erring friend. When musing on companions who followed oTher paThs, who have gone Their way as we have gone ours, we feel doubly alone. We are now prepared To Take up and perform The Tasks alloTTed us, To be worThy paTrons of socieTy. l say socieTy for There is TruThfully only one socieTy, and we are all members of iT despiTe The widely divergenf paThs we Travel, despife The broad variaTions of our morals, our opinions, our habiTs, our religion, or The capacify of our wealTh, for ever across The ages comes The whisper, We are all one. We musT make our confribufion To socieTy no maTTer how palTry. LeT us, ThaT is you and l, make ours worThy and fine. There seems To be The inherenT qualify among The human race To follow in The fooTsTeps of The pasT. BuT Those who Hrsf Trod The fronfier in America discerned The bigness of a new life. They learned To appreciaTe one anoTher for whai They really were, Thus somefhing beaufiful and fine enTered The lives of Those early American men and women. IT has lived on, reflecfed in The manners and cusToms of modern American Life. The Typical American is honesT and sincere. l-le is above all courageous, unafraid, daring To do The Things he knows To be righf. A Typical American will noT fail himself, his counfry, his socieTy. He will live his life The fullesT possible and will repay double his debf To socieTy. Are you a Typical American? Are you giving To socieTy as much as she has given you? Perhaps you do noT realize ThaT socieTy guarded you as you sTumbled and hesiTaTed while formulafing your course over The paThs of life, iusT as she guarded your forefafhers as They Traveled To This far corner of The earTh To seT up This naTion ThaT you mighT have a life of beauTy, freedom, and culTure. Sociefy has nearly complefed her era of proTecTing us. She has prepared us To Take our place. IT we Tail, if our journey proves To have been poorly planned, we have only ourselves To blame. Sociefy did her besT for us, armed us wifh her sfrongesf Tools. IT is up To us To win, To make This land, This naTion, a finer, more perfecf place To live. IT is our duTy To make The choosing of The paThs of life easier for The fuTure generaTions, ThaT fewer will face defeaT, fewer will fall by The wayside, or be lured inTo blind alleys. We musT make Their Tramp over The broad highway of life finer and more cerTain, even Though They are forced To cross The same by-paThs and encounfer The same difficulTies as we. One law of nafure necessifafes ThaT each generafion cross The paThs ThaT each man since The beginning has Trod. Many are dim, scores have faded compleTely away, anoTher group grown To weeds and Though Traveled by few will long be remembered, while a few remain enTire and quife plain. The laffer is The supreme reward delivered by earThly beings, To keep a pafh of The pasf, open and well worn by succeeding generaficns. All rewards leff-resT wiTh God! -Virginia Cook.

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CONTENTS THESCHOOL Adminisfrafion Classes SCHOOL LIFE Organizafions Adivifies ATI-I LETICS Foofball Baslcefball Track Feafures

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DEDICATION Time has revealed a qualiTy in The hearfs of men ThaT urges Them To surpass all previous aTTainmenTs, To creaTe new Tields oT exploraTion and achievement To en- deavor Toward a TuTure ThaT will be more ideal. To This SpiriT oT Progress, which moulds The TaTe of all eTerniTy we, The class oT l932, dedicaTe This TourTeenTh volume oT The Mirror. -Alma Tingle.