Northern High School - Viking Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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VIKING JUNE I932 Class Presiden+'s Address HE CLASS OF june, 1932, stands this morning between a joyful past and an un' known future. Although we have received our diplomas this morning signifying that we have successfully completed our studies here at Northern, our duties as students do not end simultaneously with this commencement day. It is for us, classmates, to per' petuate and keep the fruits of our struggles ever alive, it is for us to hold fast to our ideals, whether the sea be rough or smoothg it is for us to master all our energies and climb to the never slanting peaks of knowledge and wisdomg it is for us to employ the many lessons and the valuable training we have received here for the betterment of all mankind. All these duties are still ours as students. However, we are no longer students of school but students of life. Teachers of Northern, we realize the work we have caused you and can never forget how you so unselfishly gave much of your spare time to our extrafcurricular activities. You have shared with us our moments of happiness and sorrow. To you who have been so indefatigable in teaching the many lessons contained between the covers of our books, to you who have given us much valuable counsel, to you who have aided us in laying the very foundation of our lives, I say, Thank you. We want you to know, dear teachers, that we are none the less grateful, although our words are so pitifully few and weak. Fellow students, we have labored together with a common interest toward a common goal. For three joyful years we have been looking forward to this com' mencement day, and today we have realized a measure of success for that which we have been striving. Today is the last time that we are assembled here as one group. Although the paths we take will tend to separate us and lead us apart, we will never be able to forget each other and the days spent here at Northern. The course we followed along the stream of education was charted by our teachers, our ships were steered by their counsel, and we reach the broad sea of life because of their aid. But now we set sail upon unknown seas. Our course is uncharted and we, our' selves, must pilot our own ships. Let us go forward into the world determined to overcome all obstacles and to man our ships over the tempestuous sea into the port of wisdom and knowledge which ultimately leads to happiness and success. May we be able to say as did Browning in his parting days: What had I on earth to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel fBeing-who? One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, 'f Held we fall to rise, are baiiled to iight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's workftime Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, 'Strive and thrivelu cry Speedff1ght on, fare ever There as here! MITCHELL FELDMAN. PAGE 25'

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VIKING JUNE I932 CLASS OFFICERS MITCHELL FELDMAN, President SARAH AUSTRIA, Vicefllresident ESTI-IER SHULTZ, Secretary DAVID FRBEDMAN, Treasurer PAGE 24

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VIKING JUNE l932 Commencemen+ Day Program SELECTIONS faj lntermezzo from Nada ....... .... L eo Delihes fbl Divertissement from La Source . . . ..... Leo Delihes fel The Rosary ............... ..... E thelbcrt Nevin PI1ocESSIoNAL School Grchestra ADIJIKESS Dr. Leo M. Franklin PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Mr. Warren E. Bow ANNOUNCIEMENT OF HCDNCJIKS The Principal PRESENTATION OF CLASS MEMORIAL Mitchell Feldman, Class President ANNOUNCEMENTS The Principal RECESSIONAL PAGE 26 School Qrchestra