Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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1919 MILESTONE Greetings, Alumni! Your Alma Mater extends greetings to you who have once shared the joys and sorrows within its walls. As to joys, we have had many since you left. We have had many victories in football, basketball, debate and other high school affairs. We have cheered the teams and individuals on to victory, while they labored to keep the Maroon and White flying proudly. But it was you, Alumni, that set the standard for us, and we have done our utmost this year to keep the standard just as high and to raise it, if that were possible. As to sorrows, we have also had them, but you know that when you were once in our place you did not allow them to interfere and discourage you. So we pass over them as lightly as possible, although we may have received more benefits from them at times than we did from the joys. So, dear Alumni, we want you to know that way back in the good old N. H. S. there are feet and brains that are taking the same joyful and sometimes sad paths that you took. We know that even though many of you are far away and many near also, that you are as one in wishing us success in our battles for the Maroon and White, and be assured that your Alma Mater wishes you all the success and happiness that can possibly be yours.

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MILESTONE 1919 The Attitude of the Alumni New York, May 7, 1919. I’ve been asked to write enough to fill a page on “The Attitude of the Alumni.” My first impression in trying to figure out my alumni attitude, is one of startled alarm. Here it is, nineteen long years ago that I became an alumnus of the Norfolk High School and I half resent The Milestone editor’s calling my attention to the speed with which the years slip by and the large flock of commencement days that have come and gone since mine. High school memories and traditions and friendships grow on you with the passing years and come to be one of the really worth while things left you out of all the varied experiences of a busy, kaleidoscopic world. You think back at the days when you used to keep a stamp collection and play on the football team and go to parties and chin with the teachers and publish a Milestone, and all the old faces come up before you and you can almost hear them speak. You’d give almost anything to meet them all again tonight around an alumni banquet table. The other day a hospital unit came back from Europe, where they helped to save the day in the late war, and I learned that in this unit was a certain captain whom I knew. I tried by every possible means to locate this man and felt bitterly disappointed when I failed. I wanted to see this returning soldier because he was an old friend and because I wanted him to know that even in this great city of New York there vas appreciation of the credit he’d reflected upon our old high school at Norfolk and upon the class of 1900 and upon the alumni. I was desperately eager to find Dr. Heman Walker—Captain Walker —to shake his hand as a classmate and to let him know the attitude of the alumni toward such as he; I was hungry to express that fraternal spirit that lives and grows riper among the alumni as the years go by. You come to look at the alumni all as members of one big family. What more could be desired as the attitude of the alumni? Norris A. Iluse.