Parkersburg High School - Parhischan Yearbook (Parkersburg, WV)

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GLASS R TICDDENJ Qfttllracivce I een Sumceecesrs High By RICHARD H. BIDDLE Fellow classmates and students, members of the faculty and guests. We have arrived at the end of one journey and are about to start on another, longer and harder than the last. For four years our class has labored together for this our graduation, our goal. To- morrow seventy-one strong, we face the world, striving for that higher goal-SUCCESS. Out of this seventy-one how many of us can look ourselves straight in the eye and say, I have been a success in school? Not merely a success from the standpoint of grades alone but from that higher tandpoint-HONESTY! Honesty to ourselves and our possi- bilities! Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors how many of you can ask yourselves that question and answer Yes? I feel safe in saying a very small number. I Why? Simply because you are not studying as hard as you should. Because some of you are picking the easy courses, because you are afraid to undertake the harder ones. You do not see or realize what this means to you in after life. Each of you has reasons of your own which you know only too well. As seniors to-day we realize the mistakes we have made and the neglected opportunities we have let slip by. The result is that today our hearts are filled with regret and we wish we had our four years in P. H. S. before us and not behind us. Not a one of us, I dare say, would do the same as he has done, had he this opportunity again. However, this has been but an experience Hlled with regret, but profitable in its lesson. Those of us who are fortunate enough to receive a college education will profit by the mistakes we have made here. We will be inspired to work harder to make up for our lost opportunities in High School. Those of us who tomorrow face the business and professional world will! be better equipped by the les- sons learned from the experiences we have received here. On the other hand let. us take for an illustration two students- both high school graduates, entering college. One belongs to that small number who can say they have been a success in High School. The other belongs to that larger number who have merely received a diploma. I am sure we are all well acquainted with both students. They come home for their first vacation and we ask them how they like college and how they are getting along. One says he likes it fine and is getting along first rate. The other does not like it and thinks he will quit. Why? Because, he has not profited by his ex- perience and has not laid the foundation while in High School. Little does he seem to realize that without an education he will be con- stantly under a cloud and succeed in life with dufliculty, unless he is a genius. And now, underclassmmen, any person can profit by his own ex- perience, but the successful person, the person who makes a name for himself in the world is the person who profits by the experiences of others. Think of the wonderful opportunities the taxpayers of our community are oifering you! Think of the sacrifices many of your parents are making to give you get an education! Do not wait until you are a senior to realize these things, but profit by our experience, so embrace your opportunities that on your graduation day you can look yourself straight in the eye and say, I have been a success in High School. Twenty-Three

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There is always a time when some members of a Senior Class need advice. Question: I am eighteen years old and three feet six inches tall. What can I do to grow taller?-Devlin. Bill Higgins suggests: First pick out a very tall dame, make it a habit to take a leisurely stroll before breakfast fthis is, if you are not Hfteen minutes lateb and always cast fond glances on her beaming countenance. If you constantly do this you will soon grow taller, as the elasticity in your neck will have stretched. Try this at least five times a week. If it does not work, let me know. It has been a sure cure and I know will cure you. Harry Holliday: Don't go out calling on the ladies and give yourself away by cranking a Victrola. Iim Feeney has been wondering how he can become an artist. We suggest-sit and look at Julia Welch. Beren says, beware of the State Cops-they're always there at the right time. Reason? y Maurice and a friend of his-Fred Summers-called upon the cow pasture at Eighteenth and Murdoch Avenue. Having procured an awning rope prior to their said visit, the young men proceeded to lasso a bovine falias, cowl. Ceremoniously they conducted the cow to Sixteenth and Market Streets. Having learned that the coast was clear, they dragged out the cow. But-Whoa! About Face! The cow! Moo! Cow! Moo! The State Cops came out, too! Scared as Coo-Coos, the boys escorted by the Cops and accom- panied by the cow, paid another visit and returned the cow to its mama. We have never heard what was the price of the ransom-may be the milkman knows. Dispite the facts that the efforts of the Senior I's have failed so far, we wish to relate the results of their Flag attacks. One sedate and chubby, laboriously built Black fellow, aspiring to be a preacher, ascended a ladder placed to the roof at the rear of the building, and had succeeded in removing the Senior Flag from its celestial bearings, when behold, we had a friend-otherwise Bill, the janitor-who comniandeered the aforesaid Black Brother to replace the Senior Flag-said act WAS DID. Early that same morning a Senior arose from his downy couch and donated to the sidewalks of P. H. S. a number of whitewash signs, but Bill, our friend, the janitor, also arose from His downy couch, and did bescrub the signs from their cemential resting place. With these kind few remarks, having passed the high points of this graduating class, we wish to state: The Flu Class flew in, , The Flu Class fle,w out, But when the Flu Class flew in, The Flu flew out. But as the Flu Class flies out The Flu comes in without a doubt. j'L '!5wPYu'nce ss . s 3 .fri . 1f.' 'Q' 'Q -, vi-- fi . ' ' 2 'JV H jfiiffgl M lil l I, .I ' . lui!! L-' MEF q 1 i3awl', w lx!! iv 3 f 6 .fxllgilcwg l r Q9 I, ll! il :yt 1 ' WW l l flu, ll v -, l J S!! l , wwf! i !! f f X fllllilff 'S ff , '11 , F I I, IL'-4' fi A Q Twenty-Five