Onaway High School - Onaweea Yearbook (Onaway, MI)

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o' ,XC ENIOR fjLASS f TFFICERS Presldent Clayton Sm1th VICE Presldent Mary Cowper Secretary Edna Wrlght Treasurer Ruth Warren Class Flower Yellow Rose Class Motto The Hzgher The Chmb, The Broader The Vzew Let s lmaglne we re cllmblng a Inountaln It seems a most dlfflcult way Each step gets broader and harder We thlnk we ll turn back every day But bv fa1thful Work we shall reach the top And glance back at the path we have tread To us It was new and rugged then But coura e has forced us ahead qo l1fe ue ll compare to a mountam Each task gets stlll harder to do And the path IS ru ged and tollsome But coura e shall brmg us on throu h And then when llfe s pathway IS ended Thls motto of ours W1ll prove true The more knowledge we galn 1n the journey Qt1l1 more broad at the end IS our vlew ELLEN CRIPPEW Class Colors ............................ Purple and Gold KC ' ' ' U ! 1 . , . 1

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THE ONAW EEA 1924 -O-4-Q-o-0-9-O--o-ev-of-1 -o-Q -0--our-0-4-Q-so -Q--0-0--0-0 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF IQ24 0- 0 -0-0-4-4-0-4-4-0-0-0--o-Q-4,4 School days whrch hate seemed nothlng but a common pl rce dutv wrll rn the tuture be sur rourrdeo by a hazv past So to make the events of our four wears of hrgh school lrfe events of hrstory and to show to our readers what the class of 24 has really accompllshed I shall un lock our memory horde and reveal our treasures to you Four long years ago thrs clrss of 24 started out on the long Journey toward graduatron We admrt that when we trrst entered the doors of our Alma Nlater we were bashful green and afrard But we survrved the mrsyudgment and mlstreatrnent of the upper classmen and the teachers W hen the end of the frrst yerr came rn vrew we could see r farnt shadow of school lrfe Vle began to look toward hlgher goals and were anxrous for the days to come when we would enter those same doors as Sophornores When at last we returned we were Sophs rn deed We belrewed ourselves the best rn school and turned to the Fresh es tor revenge of our mrstreatment of the year before Our green ness bashfulness were gone and because we were full of pep rnd wanted to be up and do lng we organrzed rs a class Because of hrs love of nature and ever mrrthful smrle we elect ed 'llr Chrysler as our sponsor George Stone so rmpressed us wrth hrs busrness llke appear ance that we elected hrm presrdent of the frrst Sophomore class to be organrzed n O H S Of course the Senrors and Junrors were rrther envrous of Us because they had always been the only orgrnlzed classes 'Near the close of our mc at the lake Though we made no publrc appearance as a class rn thrs yerr we were sure that the people ot the cornmunrty knew us lxow we shall turn to our Jrrnror vear whrch always seems the most rrnportant of school memorres Because of hrs splendrd success presrdent ot our class George Stone y 1s re elected rs pre rde nt of our Junror class Smrth was chosen 'rs clrss sponsor and to hrnr we owe our splendrd success of our .Iunlor year lfebruary Sth 1923 we made our frrst a J ranre rn the torrn of the I Hop The ceco ratrons for thrs cxent were yery pretty and a whole ll was successful both socrallv rnd fr nrncrally The Senrors rnyrted the Junrors t Jorn them and canyass the town to sell Onrw ee Thrs was accornplrsnecl through a contest he results of whrch the losers were to enter tam the wrnners wrth 1 prcnrc at the lake Agarn we partrcrpated rn t splendrd prcnrc and so closed our Junlor year On Sept 1923 We assembled for the fourth and lrst yerr of our hrgh school clavs together We at last were drgnrfred Senrors the rdeal toward w hrch we had been armlng for three long years Nlany of our classmates had erther become drscourfrged or had found rt hard to frmsh the four year Journev w th us Never theless our enrollment numbers thlrty srx and we boast of belng the largest class to graduate from Onaway Hrgh One of the thlngs a student always looks for ward to rs a back seat rn the assembly room Of course they are sure of never attarnrng such r rhrng untrl then Scnror vear Thrs year our hopes w lshes and prryers were shrttered when Laudy after a very careful dsc-u n wrth the faculty forced upon us seats of te a drffer ent character He mourned and mourned but alas' the deed was done and we were the vrc tlms After thrs shock we collected ourselves organrzecl a Senror Clrss XX 1th two sponsors Nlrss Hrll rnd Nlr Young md Smrtty as our presrdent we faced a year rn whrch we were to attain success Soon a staff was elected for the purpose of edrtrng the annual Onaweea IWIHFIOII Shack son was elected edrtor rn chref rnd wrth the splendrd cooperatron of her helpers work on thls famous volume w rs started At our second clrss meetrng we decrded to send for some samples of class rrngs and from that trrne the chref toprc of every meetrng was rrngs VS hen at list a maJor1ty of the thrrty srx members clecrdecl on one rlng the money was collected rnel the order sent rn -Xt our December rneetrng a slergh ride was planned rncl shortlv atler Chrrstmas v'rcatlon e eventful el'1v crne T e Jrnglc be s called forth the entrre class to partrcrpate ln the wrnterv sport and we all enJoyecl four hours of fun arrcl merrrment Soon a COIllIllllfe9 w rs rpporntecl to select a Senror plrv The one deerclecl upon was The Charm School Though we rre now rn the est ot r g re ure he a crcecl success O Nlaw 9th rt shrll be glven and the Senror tlass of Z4 wrll bow before the publrc for the second trrne rn its hrstorv Though lerd Dry and Skrp Day have not been plrnned we are all Ierokrng forward to both eyents and are sure ot a splendrd time The Onaweer on w hrch has been spent many an hour and w orrrecl thought wrll be completed the frrst of June It contrrns all the memorres of a long and exentful wear of school lrfe and rs worthy of all the labor rnvestecl to make rt a uceess -Xnd as our motto 'lhe hrgher the clrmb the tContrnuerl on page 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