North Adams High School - Rampages Yearbook (North Adams, MI)

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.-I vALEDicToRY DIG GERALDINE COX Parents. teachers. school board. and friends. The class of nineteen hundred twenty-three has come to the close of a four year High School course. As we think back through these years. We feel that the training received here and the kindly and helpful advice of our instructors has made our course as profitable to us as it could have been made in any school. We have acquired a certain amount of knowledge and have reach- ed the time when we are to determine the value of this training, A High School training is of great value but this can be realized only when we attempt to solve the problems of life. At times our work has seemed difficult but it is very probable that we shall meet with more ob- stacles in the future than we have in the past. The motto We have chosen will help us through many difficulties. The man who wants to rise and goes at it. straight and clean will suc- ceed. One must steadily cultivate the ability to do something more than he is doing. to carry more responsibility. to bear up under more punish- ment or he will certainly never be capable of doing bigger things. Ambi- tion would never find anything to feed on if all men were content and not interested in getting ahead. When ambition becomes unrestrained. when any man thinks that he ought to be running the whole world. disappoint- ment is certain. What a person gets in this world depends on what he wants and the effort. he makes. One is reasonably sure to get what he desires if he has the ability and willingness to work and is willing to make the necessary sacrifices. The man who just wants to get along is not a very great factor among his fellows. it is the individual who is always on time and does his work the best that gets the promotion. Look at some of our great Americans of today. John D. Rockafeller was as desirous of a fortune as one could be. but it never occured to him that he could find one without work. He saw that there was gold all about him and that people would gladly give it to him for something they wanted, if he could supply it to them at a lower price than they had been pay ing. So he gave them Letter oil at a cheaper price. He has not only made his fortune but has built up an industry which has contributed to the real wealth of the world. Mr. Edison, who is still at his desk. through his determined effort to I..

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ll II ll ll ll H II Il II ll MARION PIERCE, '20 '21 Vice President of Sophomore Class '21 '22 President of Junior Class '23 A College Town '23 Member of Stall. Joke Editor LLOYD MCLAUGHLIN. '22 Foot Ball '23 A College Town '23 Member of Staff Assistant Joke Editor I-IDNA FRY. '22 Operetta Betty's Dilemma 23 A College Town 23 Member of Staff Assistant. Typist 9 Q RICHARD BARGER. 22 Foot Ball 22 '23 Base Ball 22 '23 Basket Ball '22 Operetta Bet,ty's Dilemma '23 A College Town '23 Member of Staff Editor in Chief ll ll ll Il ll ll

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dig into and clist-ow-r the possibilities ol' electricity has revolutionized mvthods in transportation and manufacturing. Tho value of his work can- not bv estinlated. ln looking bark own' the yvars wo have- lf-arnvd a ve-ry important fat-t. Tho old adage- of Nz-vm' put oil' until tomorrow what can ba dont' today. has mort- truth than is usually concedvd to it. ln our f-xpvriencv we haw found that studvnts. who haw allowed lfl'lt'lllSf'lVl'S to nuglet-t their work. havv in tht- Q-nd lost out and on trying to gathvr up the- nvglvctfftl thrflads haw be-e-n unable- to do so. The-5 c-ould not CUIH9 up to the expectations ui'tllt'll1sf'lH's or tht-ir instirtwtors. So wv have- learnt-il that the presont is tha- bust time' to work out tht- tasks that arv always confronting us. tllassmatfis, l am sure wt- will always I'PtHf'lIllJPI' our sahool with alllw- tion and gratitude. We- shall Pvc-r fm-l a noble' pridv in thost- who haw- so wisffly and so gvnf-rously plam-d tha means of vduvation within tbf' rflavh of' all. To the- srhool board and to our tvachvrs wt' rvturn our sinr'e-rv thanks for tht-ir intt-rf-st in our we-lfart-. :Xml now vlassmatt-s. ws- will soon sr-paratv. ln whatfwvr fir-ld of work ws- may be- found and in whatevvr dvalings wt- haw' with our follow inf-n. lt-t ltr- try to maintain as high a standard at lf-ast as wa- haw- during the- past four yvars. Ls-t us bv he-lpful to the- vommunity in whivh ws-lixv. ln our ?ll'll1lIlN1iSt'lllZf'IlS le-t ns stand for thosf- things that are- for tht- good ol' all and thus add our littlv towards making this 4'HIlllll'b a bot- tvr t-ounlry. This will re-llf't't vrvdit upon the- homvs from whit-h ws' hast- Wlllltl and tht- institutions wo art- about to lvavv. :tix I 'X t-J