Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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17. for Geometry, slu will accept a position as book-keeper with a prominent business house in the great city of of Norfolk and make herself a thoroughly good businesswoman. She, like most noted people, commences at the bottom approaching the summit gradually. On 1 icr way she does not forget the interest of her sex but travels here and there on Temperance and “Woman Suffrage.” In after years we see her name too inscribed among those of the ( rent women of A merica. Then what may we expect of the central figure of our group? This young gentleman wields the pen with alacrity and becomes a prominent literary man after graduating in Harvard. Society is astonished and overjoyed by the magazine he presents to her view. It even excels the Century, Scribners, Harpers or any noted magazine of the times. Imagine our pride and pleasure on receiving the first copy of the “Golden Age” edited by our talented classmate. A fourth member of this‘distinguished” class was very much admired by us for her love of literature. When we were studying literature, it was she who could always interest us with little bits of biography,—such as the story of George Washington and his little hatchet and all that. Such incidents as these impressed on our minds that she (our classmate) was remarkably talented as well as to render it almost impossible for us to forget the noted person of whom she spoke. Often were our emotions over-wrought by her efforts in elocution. Nor shall her passion for oratory cease with her school days. Her charming beauty and queenly manners will aid her grandly in her profession—elocution. In the early part of the 20th century we shall witness her accept the professorship of elocution in one of oar leading colleges. Oh! Tis true many lovers may kneel at her feet but she will turn proudly away from all. saying. matrimony is not her calling. Now may we not read too of another but by no means least of the pentagon? The profession of ped-a-gogy has already overtaken this stately biped. But becoming restless in so meek a station in life she wishes to take up the study of law. As will be remembered by her old schoolmates, she was a worshipes of oratory. Her love for public speaking she could not repress in her youth, but in after vears by stimulated efforts and a little practice, she overcame the love but not the difficulty. However she will become a lawyer.

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1«. Bodies. Till! impressions they have made both by precepts and examples will be as lasting as our lives themselves, and. it' obeyed, will carry us beyond into a blissful Kternity. First of all, we wens endowed by our (treat Benefactor with sensibilities, intellects, and wills; and by virtue of these faculties, man is master of all lod’s creatures. None are capable of so high {V state of culture. ()ur teachers and parents, through our sensibilities, have developed our intellects and wills, and can'd for us during the period when the little shoots of character were yet unable to battle with the storms of life. Thus far have we gone; and now as we are about to assume responsibilities of our own, we can hut promise to pay, at some future time, the value we have received. We have a joint obligation with (Sod, our parents, our country, and society. You ask why we are indebted to our country. Are not my sister-classmates and I debtors for the intellectual freedom we as women can enjoy? Let us rejoice that we live in these closing years of the nineteenth century. Traditions nor chains of custom no longer bind us. All avenues are open to us and we can pass hand in hand with our brother classmate through all the gates ol higher learning. Our hearts are full of gratitude, but thin shall not be our mthj ottering. How faithful we are to our promise let the future disclose. Though we may not reach the uppermost rounds of the ladder of fame, our efforts shall Ik unalmting. By doing what good we can. we shall forge a glittering chain on which to string the pearls, whose soft pure light shall belt our world like a spiritual equator. Could we but look into the future and read its pages we should probably see engraved in golden letters the achievments of the class of’Si). We might read the career of the musician. In hci we possess a voting lady of rare musical talents and already the touch of her “magical” fingers thrills us with pleasure. Mozart can hardly excel her in the imitation of a storm. And what is more charming than “Hock a bye Baby” rendered by her. She may travel through (iermany and Italy cultivating and enriching her talents; and in time we shall see 1»r nn»» heading the list of the great musicians of our country. Another member may attend the state university and graduate with honor and distinction. Having also acquired a knowledge of book-keeping and short-band, thus quieting her old passion

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IK- Il) many instances (when the evidence is on her side) she will prove ra'u convincing in her argument both to judge and jury. Of course these conjectures as to the future of the individual members of this class may fall wide'of the mark. I intend that they shall. The future, even tomorrow, is a blank mystery, and we know not what a day will bring forth. We can only say here in the presence of friends, schoolmates, teachers and parents, you have given unto us bountifully, and we promise to pay, day by day, in our different lines of work, with various commodities, the (nil measure of our debt. If vve render unto the generation that shall rise around us gifts like those that have been given us, live upright, Christian lives, improve our God-given faculities, and in every way be useful men and women, we shall then be balancing our account of so long standing. Tomorrow the first installment becomes due. Tomorrow we go forth to exert an influence on the world, and to commence rendering unto others what has long been given us. Oh, thou tomorrow! Mystery! Oh day that ever runs before! What has thy hidden hand in store For mine, tomorrow, What hast thou In store to make me bear the now? Oh day in which we shall forget The tangled troubles of today. Oh, day that laughs at duns, at debts, Oh day of promises to pay ! Oh shelter from all present storm! Oh, day in which we shall reform Oh, safest, best day of reform ! Convenient day of promises! Hold back the shadow of the storm, Oh, blest tomorrow! Ohiefest friend, Let not thy mystery be less Hut lead us blindfolded to the end