Port Huron High School - Student Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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Valedictory of Class of February, 1934 “ Build thee more stately mansions , 0 my soul , As the swift seasons roll!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes. We, as a class have been striving during the past four years to build our mansions more nearly perfect. This occasion is a mark of our progress. We have studied long and faithfully, each trying to do his best and improving upon it as he acquired more knowledge. As we have traveled together during these four years, our immediate goal was graduation. We have reached that goal, but it is not the end. We must now go on individually building our lives without the guidance of our parents and teachers. While in high school, we have formed a foundation and a framework upon which to build in the future. We have been preparing to take up our life work and to shoulder our own responsibilities. We have acquired more than just the fundamentals of learning; through contacts with our fellow students and teachers, we have added to our lives a social and moral development. Our school days have been happy ones for us, and we hope our relations with each other will not be entirely severed. We do not know what the future holds for us, but we do feel that during this time of readjustment and change we must not cease in our efforts to do better. The world can use the best that we can give. It may be through our endeavors that some of the economic problems of the present may be solved and the structure of our government made more durable. Even though we may not be able to go on to any higher school of learning, we must not let our minds become less alert or our ideals less noble. When we find our niche in the structure of life, may we fill it competently and well. We offer our gratitude to our faculty for their kindness and helpfulness to us. We are glad that in this time of financial and industrial depression we are able to be graduated, and we extend our sincere thanks to the people of this city and to the Board of Education for their careful planning to keep our schools open. To our parents, we give our thanks for all their sacrifices and helpfulness. Let us say farewell, classmates, and go forth to erect more stately mansions. As we do, so let us bear in mind our motto, “We constantly strive to make our best better.” FRANCES STAHLBUCK, Valedictorian. [Page Nine]

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: : 0 Wy Salutatory To Class of February, 1934 “Thou must be true thyself , thou the truth would 9 st teach; Thy soul must overflow , If thou another soul would 9 st reach ; It needs the overflowing heart , To give the life full speech. Think truly and thy thoughts Shall the world ' s famine feed ; Speak truly and thy word Shall be a fruilhful seed ; Live truly and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. The most encouraging truth that can be impressed on the mind of us, the youth of today, is this: “What man has done man may do.” Men of great achievements we must not reverence as exceptions to the average of humanity, but consider them as setting a standard of success for us. Their example shows what can be accomplished by the practice of the common virtues — diligence, patience, determination, perseverance, and earnestness. These men and women have shaped their futuer by making the most of small opportunities. Never before was the opportunity of the educated girl and boy so great as today. There is always a place for those who can do things well. The education that elevates, refines and enobles its recipient knows no bounds. Because we have just finished our compulsory education, we must not halt our learning. We must educate ourselves more fully to meet the problems of the changing but practical world. We must not let our ideals grow dim nor our high standards drop. The atmosphere of learning and beautiful promise that we are leaving for a practical materiality will be a test to our character. We, the educated children of today, are expected to look up, not down, to aspire, not grovel. Petty annoyances and bickerings should not influence us. We ought to be able to rise above these things and use all our brain power and energy for worthwhile work. During this present time of economic depression, we realize we shall have to fight to make our lives more successful. We can not remodel the world, but we can face it with hope, cour- age, and training. Our enthusiasm shall not be thwarted because of such discouraging times, nor shall we be misled by despondency, suspicions, and criticisms which are now so prevalent. We enter the game at a critical time, yet we shall look on these difficulties as a challenge and discipline ourselves to meet them. Success does not only mean doing something marvelous and outstanding. Success comes by living honestly and earnestly, by always ringing true in our friendships at school which we will always remember, by holding a helpful attitude to those about us, by being a good citizen. We must not miss the little successes in striving for a great and wonderful goal, a goal achieved through solid and stable ideals. Our aim is for security, time to enjoy our friends, and time for gaining wisdom to make happy, wholesome homes. The old assumption of youth was to work and get rich. Money seemed an ideal. A high standard of living meant to get as much as the next fellow. We, the youth of today, are straying away from that idea, and demand a sounder philosophy, a philosophy of living, not having; of happiness, not wealth. GLADYS CLARKE, Salutatorian. m [Page Eight]

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Salutatory to the Class of June, 1934 Fellow Classmates: As we are about to embark upon a long hard voyage through this world, it is fitting to review the past and to relive our glorious experiences in Senior High School. Standing on the threshold of the future, we look back with no little regret upon the eventful life which we have led during our three years of high school work. While it is impossible to recall all of our joys and sorrows, many of our reminiscences stand out from the others like beacons of knowledge. Before all, we wish to extend our heartiest thanks to the teachers who have helped and encouraged us in all our enterprises. No faculty could have done more to aid us in obtaining a proper start in life. Without their untiring efforts we undoubtedly would not have achieved our present goal. May graduation not dim our eyes to the infinite gratitude we owe them. Let us hope that the classes that follow in our footsteps will benefit as much as we from the whole-hearted cooperation of the faculty. In leaving the scene of our youth to enter a longer and harder life, our happy days together will not be forgotten. Our pleasant companionship with each other has been an inspiration many times when the horizon looked cloudy and hopeless. When a gloomy moment is upon us, there is nothing that is comparable to a friend, a real companion in need. Many an obstacle has been overcome by the combination of friendship and initiative, and so we must carry our spirit of cooperation and ambition into our future work to succeed in this rapidly changing world and nation. We must not lose heart when we think of the deplorable condition in which the outside world lies. While the opportunities offered the high school graduate of today are not great, nevertheless there still are opportunities. For the hard working, ambitious young man or woman, the world always has a place. We are a part of that great mass of high school graduates who will enter the affairs of the country and who will determine its destiny in the next fifty years. For that reason the horizon faintly begins to show signs of newer and brighter rays of hope. We can make those dark clouds of depression entirely disappear, and so with that thought let us go forth to do that which must be done to make the world a happier and greater place to live in. EARL AILIO and WILLIAM MANN, Salutatorians. [Page Ten]