Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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THE MILESTONE. 15 we have had three superintendents and ten different teachers, four of whom have taught for two years, and yet we live; that is, some of us; others have been borne home on blotters. The past year has been one of great enjoyment, though it seems as if every other week was devoted to examinations. Now the time has come for us to say good-bye, and with feelings of regret and sadness we leave our school and its associations to go into the wide world to tight our battles. YVIwn another autumn comes, and the school bells ring for the merry troops of laughing children, a feeling of loneliness will seize us when we realize that no more will we gather together as class-mates in the dear old school. Our places will be tilled by others, and as the years pass we will be forgotten; but we will never forget the happy school days of youth. With our favorite Howers carnations, pink and white—in our hands, we say together, “God bless us all!” Farewell! @@ Class Yell. Hip-boo-Rah- Ra h Hipty ate Norfolk-Norfolk Ninety-eight! Class Colors. Fink and White. Class Flower. Carnation. Class Motto. Industry Leads to Success.

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14 THE MILESTONE. ed from the botany class, for that study necessitates long rides into the country, though it doesn’t necessitate that tramps should scare the little girls of the class. Many pleasant memories will we carry with us of our junior year. Especially the class parties, fifteen in number, given by the different members of the class. Special parties were two, one given by the juniors in honor of the seniors, and the other in return by the seniors for the beloved juniors. We also banded ourselves together as the ‘’Junior club” for mutual benefit. We had officers and committees and arranged programs in a business like manner. During the year a system of self-government was established which was carried out nobly by our class. It also seemed necessary to the English division, on account of the seniors, to have afternoon prayer meetings intermingled with song services, varied occasionally by a private circus. The culmination of our junior year was our class day program, which was rendered at the last of the year, and which gained for ns an everlasting reputation as artists. It was one of the finest programs ever rendered in the Norfolk high school, so it is said. Of course we do not say so, because we are a very modest class. The Class of ’9S, composed of seventeen members, stands at the head of the Norfolk high school. We are the tenth graduating class, and the largest ever graduated from the Norfolk schools. When we entered the high school we were between forty and fifty strong, but many of our members have been removed from us, and our number has been reduced to seventeen. However, we remem- ber the saying, “Quality, not quantity.” Many have moved away, some teach school, others are engaged in different kinds of work. Several are married, others would like to be. Never have we lost a classmate by death, for which we are very thankful. Our number has been increased from time to time, especially in the last few years. The studies pursued and mastered are geometry, astronomy, botany, English history and literature and Latin. As a class we will always be noted for our musical ability, industry and push. Perhaps this is due partially to our motto, “Industry Leads to Success.” We have organized an orchestra and maintained it, given entertainments and raised money for a piano fund for the high school. Our name should go down in the annals of history as a bright and shining light to future classes. Most of us are musicians of no mean rank. Though we are mostly inclined toward instrumental music, it is said that when the seniors sing all the earth trembles and the little freshies clap their hands, for the sound thereof is like the rushing of mighty waters. Our dear boys are noted for their angelic dispositions and their great desire to escort the young ladies home from parties. Their delight is bob-sled parties. The girls are in the majority and the leaders of the class. Their delight is oyster suppers and short talks on dress. So proficient have they become in the subject, they have discussed and exhausted it several times during the latter part of the year, much to the delight of the boys. During our four years of school

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Salutatory. C. LENA MILLS. Ladies and Gentlemen: Your bright and smiling faces assure us that you are pleased to again witness another graduation exercises of the Norfolk high school. On behalf of the Class of ’9S, I extend to you a most cordial and hearty welcome to this, the tenth commencement of our high school. This is the largest class that has ever greeted you on a similar occasion. and we bid you welcome. Tonight seventeen young men and women step out from the common public school into that greater and wider school, the world. No class has ever yet experienced a more profitable high school course, nor had a brighter future before them. We feel confident that so talented and energetic a class as this, the Class of ’9S, will fill some of the best and highest positions that the great world offers to wide awake, fame-seeking young men and women. Each one will go forth and tight the battles of life, as did the gallant knights of old, with bravery, honor and success. But should we fail to reach a high standard, or to meet with great success, it will not lie a lack of faithful and earnest labor But we will do our best to become worthy men and women. Again we bid you welcome. “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” No words ever written or spoken are dearer to the human heart than these. It matters not if it be in the sunny land of Scotland, under Italian skies, or on English soil. It seems very strange, indeed, to us, liberty loving Americans, born upon a free soil, that the tenants of England are so true to their country. Many of them are compelled, from year to year, to live in houses of one small room, containing seven or eight occupants. The poor wife, whether in delicate health or not, lives without almost the common necessities of life. The children have scarcely sufficient clothing to protect them from winter’s cruel breath. The lords lead a life of ease and luxury, yet they are no more country-loving than are their tenants. But should it not be thus? Though strange it may seem to us, is it not their native land? “Man, through all-ages of revolving time. Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every laud the pride, Belov'd of heaven o’er all the world beside : His home, the spot of earth supremely blest. A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.