Montpelier High School - Mirror Yearbook (Montpelier, OH)

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FOREWQR EAUTY is the shrine at which all mankind pauses to worship. There is a certain pulchritude in the advancement of civilization. Now we can look back upon the laborious efforts of our ancestors with gratitude- they have made our endeavors more simple, yet beset with difficulty to keep astride with the pace of the throngs marching onward to seek the obscure and magnetic realms of success. Life is like a fantastic drama, the background a beauteous one, depicting the hardships, dismal realities, the joys and exultations of our downfalls and triumphs. Every individual has a part, some of us will be privileged greater roles to play, these being allotted to us according to our integrity and adapt- ability. While others will be allowed only minor portions, every character is significant to make magnificent the forthcoming climax. When the great- est of all productions, the drama of Life is over and the curtain descends, may we be worthy of the jubilant applause of our followers. We have enjoyed compiling the major project of our High School career -the Mirror. The cooperation necessitated for this publication has been willingly granted, demanding closer associations in our sincere efforts to make this particular yearbook a commendable one and imprinting upon our minds an everlasting and beautiful memory of school life and friendships. We the class of '37 trust that it is granted your profound approval. -jack Weidner UDL-IUDH ZI2YL!'HQJN INCE we realize that the longing for beauty is the profoundest hunger of mankind, and its creation the loftiest ideal, We the Class of 1937 Dedicate this the l9th Volume of the Mirror to those Artists, Laymen, Teachers, and Parents who have ever held high the creative ideal of the True, the Good and the Beautiful before us, and imbued our very being with a desire to cultivate and ap- preciate aesthetic things. -Clinton Bartley Page 4

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E UTY UEEN The most beautiful senior in Wil- liams Countyl That's what they are saying about our Virginia Gabriel, who brought honor to herself and to her school by being crowned queen of the annu-al Horse Show at Bryan over more than half a score of con- testants from all of Williams County. May we say we are justly proud of her and that she deserved the great honor bestowed upon herl fVictor Thorpe VIRGINIA GABRIEL Beautyl Thousands have tried to find it, more have tried to invent it and still others merely attempt to describe it. Some say it is an all-pervacling presence which unfolds to the numberless flowers of spring, that it waves in the branches of the trees and in green blades of grass, that it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And they see not only these minute objects but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun, all overflowing with beauty. The l937 class of Montpelier High School visualizes beauty personified by human relationship, mental growth, varied interests, physical vigor and Co- operation. With these thoughts paramount in mind we have tried to make this book an example of our theme. -Dorothy Gump Page 3

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'LFZSALSEIEI GDL? 0 NTENTS Beauty oi l-luman Relationships Beauty oi Mental Growth Beauty oi Physical Vigor Beauty oi Varied Endeavors Beauty oi Cooperation UB relationship, mental development, physical strength and varied endeavors form one huge cycle, around which human lite .centers These factors enable our ideals to be actualized and cause our base intrigues to banish. Cooperation allows an expansion from a low, abstract character to an abundant, fuller soul. Although the beauty of these attributes some- times seems obscure, We can not help but realize it, since they are such common characteristics in our school lives. -Letty Marie Williams Paae 5