Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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Til E MILESTONE. 11 we hid you u hearty welcome, to our society, our hiarts aud our greatness to come. You are few in number, fewer than we were few. but we are assured that what is lacked in quantity is amply made up in quality. You were our school-mates, you become co-laborers with us in the rugged field of life. May the battles be eiisy. may the marches be short and the rests long and refreshing. May the hopes that have been born during your school days strengthen as the days go by and the realization of them draw nearer. Wherever you may be. whatever may befall you. let the links which bound us in our youth strengthen, may new and brighter links be added, forming at last a glittering chain reaching to eternity. We cannot always be young and gay. We cannot expect it, for well we know by the lives among us, “that into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary,” but let us remember, dear friends and fellow pupils, that over and above all there is a power to guard and guide us, and the hope of a happy meeting that shall never know the sorrow and pain of a parting, to spur us on to duty. Again extending our heartiest wishes for success and happiness to teachers, friends and fellow pupils and thanking again the public for their kind attention to us, we greet you for the last time as the Class ok 89. 11 K class of '89 met at the home of Miss Kthel Keid dune 17, 1889. for the purpose of organizing a society in which til? class and all succeding classes graduating from the Norfolk High School, could feel a common interest, and which would still bind them as the years go by. to the friends and memories of a happy youth aud the joyous days of the past. All the members of the class were present save one. Ttuipirarv odie .-rs were elected and a committee instructed to draw up a constitution ami by-laws. Ktiikl I . Reil , Ida M. Battk. Edith Hays, Frederick W. Leavitt, Lilian Qkkkckk. ORGANIZATION OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE NORFOLK HIGH SCHOOL.

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 f LUMNi Corner. SALUTATORY FROM THE CLASS OF 89. T r YEAR lias passed since onr graduation ami again tin class t 9 • t l its friends through the classical columns of the Mm.kstonk. When wo left our nhnn mater twelve short months ago, never again ♦ » enter her pleasant halls as students ami fellow pupils, we left her only to enter an Older, and stricter school, the school of the World, to be disciplined by those hard, cruel master?, Time and Experience. Thus far they have deal with us but gently. Our paths have not lain widely divergent and the -iron rod” of duty has only kept us from straying into fields of idleness. We are still privileged to meet occasionally as a class to recall and enjoy Memory's pictures of the happy past. To pass once more through onr various experiences, sublime and ridiculous, to once more discuss the merits of onr Professor and agree nnuni imously that ours was the jollies class that ever graduated, and that our school and our teachers were the finest that ever existed. Perhaps, at least we hope so. you would like to know what has become of this remarkable class, what we have been doing or if anything wonderful has happened to any of us? To the first, we are all still living and enjoying most excellent health and spirits. To the second two only have gone abroad to continue their studies in higher schools, two more are teachers in the halls they so lately left, and the fifth is in her home nursing her “budding genius Strange to say nothing wonderful has happened to am of ns et. quite sure, however, that we will all be famous some day. The promise we made last year shall be faithfully kept and in the glorious years of manhood and womanhood to come we fully expect to do something grand and good and noble, something that shall send onr names pealing down the ages to come in a glad, resounding chime. To the class of '90, so soon to join the ranks of the yet youthful alumini,

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12 THE MILESTONE. The following Thursday the class again met with Miss Lilian (ierecke, for permanent organization, under the name of the ‘'Alumni Association of the Nofolk High School.” Fred Leavitt was elected president; Kdith Hays, vice-president; Lilian Gerecke, secretary and treasurer. The constitution drawn by the committee was read, revised and accepted. All classes graduating from the Norfolk High School are expected and heartily invited to become members of the Association upon their graduation, the former members reserving all rights to make the initiation a performance never to lx forgotten by the ‘‘new-comers.’ Of courae our membership is still very small, numbering only five. Upon the entrance of the ’90's, should they find the courage to join us, we become eight strong. As the years go by, may the list increase. May the blessings of the prosperity of the school, so richly showered upon us, continue to fall still more abundantly on the worthy heads that follow ns, and each year as the old members greet the new ones may they revive their love for alma mater and join in a rousing hurrah for old Norfolk High School. Ixmg may she live and prosper. FROM DOANE COLLEGE. Leak Friends ok the Milestone:--------- We gladly accept an opportunity to contribute something to Vol. II of the Milestone. The founders of this publication, who embarked upon their first journalistic enterprise with considerable trepidation, are most heartily glad to see it prosper and will ulways take a kind’y interest in this and every other effort of the alma mater, The class of 89 have been alumni hardly long enough to know just how it feels to be out of school. In fact, the feeling was so unpleasant that we must all needs return to our books for a little study, though not all of us are so fortunate as to study behind the desk. Perhaps a few observations on my home for the past year may be of inte rest on account of its being at a greater distance. Doan College, while unseetarian, is conducted upou distinctly Christian