Nokomis High School - Old Nokomis Yearbook (Nokomis, IL)

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2 2 at least it illustrates the point. Mr. Stupid, who was hurrying to get in out of a shower, tried to push his umbrella through a doorway. One of the doors was open, but the opening was too narrow to admit the umbrella. Mr. Lackwit said, “Wait a moment, Friend Stupid, open the other door,” and thus entrance was effected. Then they talked for several minutes. By and by Mr. Stupid exclaimed, “What a dolt I am! If I had closed my umbrella, I could have entered the door as it was.” “That’s so!” remarked Mr. Lackwit. “Come to think of it, I see you could. Well, well! not a day passes that we do not learn something new.” Pray, do not, by your drifting and leaning upon a stronger fellow student, even approach a Mr. Stupid or a Mr. Lackwit. When you have finished your education—but wait! When you have finished your education? The story is told of Michelangelo, who was found by a friend walking in solitude amid the ruins of the Coliseum, and when he expressed his surprise the great artist answered, “I go yet to school that I may continue to learn.” Who among us can after this talk of finishing our education? Let us make another beginning. When you have finished your high school or college course you are ready for a new and harder game. In this, too, you must be fair and must play to win. Some of the older players will tell you that this game cannot be won fairly, “Business is business,” is the old cry. Happily the number who teach this doctrine is rapidly becoming smaller. Men of the highest business ability recognize that even a financially successful career must be built upon honesty. As players you may disagree as to what constitutes winning the game. Some may argue that it consists of getting—getting money or fame or power. But those who have a clear vision will see that you have truly won, only when service to your fellow man is your guiding ambition. Power and fame and money may be yours, but let them be a sacred trust to be used wisely and well. Bend all your energies toward giving the best that is in you in business and social relations, but take the fruits thereof hum-play fair.” Mrs. Eekhoff. OLD NOKOMIS

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2 2 IN MEMORY OF OUR CLASSMATE MILDRED GRAY ’Tis hard to think that she is dead, And forever gone away. For that's what many people said When they heard of Mildred Gray. She was a very modest girl. She was liked by one and all. God called her from this cruel world. And she answered to His call. She was only sixteen years old, In the spiingtime of her life. And yet no sin had stained her soul. She had met no toils and strife. Her life was like unto a flower, That sprang up in the morning, Anc! flourished in its early hour, Then cut down without warning. But God, who gave life to her And who, too, laid her to rest, Will safely bear her over For He knoweth what is best. OLD NOKOMIS