Mount Cory High School - Shamrock Yearbook (Mount Cory, OH)

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ofwrlorn Tonight we gather here for the last time as members of Mt. Cory school.In our years of attendance here, each one of us has striven to- gether toward one end. From tonight on we shall start alone, striving to reach our own individual goal. Our classmates will be scattered here and there, wherever they are best suited.There are many vocations to enterg there is a place for everyone. As good citizens we should do each piece of work to the best of our ability. By a successful person we mean one who succeeds in his career, or one who has satisfactorily completed a task. It is not always the big things that happen to make our goal higher,but small things which help to make wealth and fame deserved rewards of success. For some this success will lay close at hand, but others must work hard to achieve it. When We reach our goal, will we stop or will we keep on working to reach a higher rung in our ladder upward? Will each one be leaders, or will we let some one else lead us?In each career each one should cooperate and be able to take the lead as well as have some one else lead you. One will never be successful if he cannot lead as well as be led. Now that we have striven to reach this goal,we must not stop, for we have merely begun.Tonight each one realizes that he has many goals to gain, and it is our hope that we shall have great success in every- thing that we attain in the future. Thelma Welty QR AWGN The Senior class of l945 cordially welcomes our parents and friends assembled here tonight on our final association with this school. This time has been anticipated for four long years and yet there's a sense of regret, for we know that from now on our future will take on a more serious aspect. Having partially completed our ed- ucation to benefit us to shoulder tomorrow's responsibilities, we know our concern will loose the carefree attitude which we have assumed through all our school days. To most of you,this commencement is merely an occasion for enter- tainment. But for us, this occasion closes another period of our lives and thereby severs many pleasant associations. While thinking of the days that have gone by, and of the future that is still before us, we begin to regret that much of what made school life dear to us, is now gone forever. Amidst the joys of today, we realize that the ties that united us, will not be broken. Still,such are life's lessons, and only he will be successful who learns them early and thoroughly. But I should not be true to myself were I to leave this platform without addressing myself to the institution that taught us, to that noble school whose able officials and capable teachers have made it possible for us to occupy these seats. Soon its door will be closed for the summer, and the recitation rooms, so full of activity during the school term, will be silent. The structure itself is only dead material. But soon its doors will swing open againg and the work of training boys and girls to become useful men and women will be resum- ed. Once more: welcome, teachers, parents, and friends, is the greet- ing from the class of 1945. Ghloette Wagner

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VA I v 'FE DIQTQRXK Found rewards! Tonight we will receive the reward we have been working and striving for in the past. To us this token will mean many things: FIRST--We have completed our school days, and no more will we have teachers to guide us from wrong to right. SECOND--We will have to face society for the first time alone, whether we leave our homes and go to college for a higher education, work in a factory or office, or become a part of the Army, Navy or Marines. THIRD--We as classmates will part, not knowing when we will meet again. Our parents, who are witnessing this Commencement exercise to- night, will also receive a reward for their labor. This will be the first time, for some of them, to see their own child graduate. For others it will mean, another child leaving home, not knowing exactly what care it will receive. The reward, which our parents receive is not great enough to cope with the understanding, loyalty, companion- ship, and work they have given us in the past. After tonight it is up to us as individuals to make something of ourselves. We all can make the most of every opportunity presented to us in this country where freedom of speech and individual rights are offered to ally but we must remember nthere is no reward without labor. Eileen Steiner SA L UTAT CRX ONE WORLD, ONE HUMANITY When Hitler proclaimed the Germans the master race, he brought into the open the long seething problem of so-called, racial dif- ferences.We know the racial tension in this country by the relocation of Japanese,by the Negro divisions and by the crowded Chinese.Why are there such tensions? Is there any basis for such prejudice and racial discrimination? There are no essential differences between peoples except coloring. In spite of the fact that science has proved there are no fundamental distinctions, we find it difficult to put behind us our old traditions. - As individuals we shall help to create the postwar world. Those who cling to their racial mindedness help to maintain this deplorable condition. Individuals who think of humanity as one, will be those who recognize skills and abilities of color or creed, who will seek full civic privileges for all countrymen. We cannot start on a grand scale to do these things, but gradually through our own contacts, we can see to it that each and every person will have fairness in busi- ness and otherwise.The seeds of division are planted in the hatred to be found within our own communities. There is little use talking a- bout world brotherhood if the spirit of true brotherhood does not prevail in our home town. We can never have one world in the real sense of the word until all nations have abolished all economic and political differences founded on race and religion. We shall always be fighting unless we learn that one world also means one humanity, peoples joined together by common bonds, by common aims, by mutual confidence and by common understanding. Marilyn Steiner

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I Sf if I Sf F' X VCEJLXQQ VHLJTCJK On a rainy September day in the fall of l954,seventeen pupils en- rolled in the first grade of Mt. Cory Rural School. Nine members of that group have gone through all twelve years at Mt. Cory. They are: June Fritz, Nellie Steinman, Marilyn Steiner, Phyllis King, Eileen Steiner, Lorence Werner, Robert Bowersox, Chloette Wagner and Anna Mary Crow. During the summer of 1959, a great tragedy and sorrow came upon us in the bicycle accident and death of Ellen May Alspach, one of dear classmates. We have thought about her very much and missed during the school years. In the fall of l94l, itiated into high school. come true. Our officers Steiner, vice-president, year was made interesting we participated. We began our sophomore year twenty-five gangly, green freshmen were At last our dreams of becoming freshmen were: Albert by the our her in- had David Anderson, president, Marilyn McMann, secretary and treasurer. This parties and other activities in which by electing our officers. The results were: Lorence Werner, presidentg Robert Bowersox, vice-presidentg Chloette Wagner, secretary and treasurer. One important event was ordering of our the latter part ed us with our year. The junior decisions and the parties which we held during the rings, and what an exciting time when we received them of the year.Isabelle Stewart CWestD, our sponsor,help- the year was a busy one. On March 7, we gave our play, UWho Wouldn't Be Crazy?n We had a lot of fun in producing it with the help of Miss Obee. The proceeds were put in the treasury for future use. April 28, was chosen as the date for the junior-senior banquet. We spent several tedious hours planning for this event and it proved to be unusually successful. The officers for the year were: Nellie Steinman, president, Floyd Hartman, vice-presidentg Thelma Welty, sec- retary and treasurer. Our sponsor again was Isabelle Stewart CWestJ. Our senior year was the most outstanding of them all. We had been looking forward to this time since we were freshmen, and now at last we could consider ourselves twenty-five superior upper classmen. This was the year of many class meetings, and the first one was for the election of officers. They were: William Schafer, president: Eileen Steiner, vice-presidentg Dorothy Elzay, secretary, and Vivian Wagner, treasurer. 'On October 4, we motored to Tiffin to have our graduation pictures taken and later received them on December 22. Next, we elect- ed the annual staff and worked enthusiastically to produce the mas- terpiece. UMurder Mansionu was the title of our play which was given April 15. Selecting the invitations and name cards was another per- plexing problem. This year we were guests, rather than hosts, of the Junior-senior banquet, which was held April 27,in the school building. Baccalaureate was held May 15, and Commencement, May 17. May day was the last activity in which the seniors participated. Our May queen was Marilyn Steiner and Steiner was maid of The attendants were queen and her court This ended the taken from the class. The entertainment for high school days of the seniors of 1944-45 the king of courts was Lorence Werner. Eileen honor and David Anderson was first man of court. the was a May pole dance, folk dances and a pantomine. and they can look back at the school, saying ---- nThanks for the Memories.u