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

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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]

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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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Valedictory of the Class of June, 1934 For the past twelve years we have been striving, both individually and col- lectively, for one and only one goal — our graduation. Now that we have arrived at that goal, we hesitate, wondering if it is really worth all the efforts that we have put forth. As we begin to realize that we must part with most of the friends of our youth and that we must forge ahead by ourselves, we are stunned and bewildered to no little degree. Within us we hear two voices — one urging us ever on, the other begging us to rest awhile before proceed- ing. These voices are the keys to our future. We may listen to either one of them, but only to one. It is being said on all sides that we are to be pitied, since we are being graduated in these times of financial and mental distress. Contrary to this expressed opinion, we should be congratulated. We have the chance to go forth and to do what those who are pitying us have failed to do. It is we who will perfect the machinery of our government, who will reshape our industrial system, and who will lead the world back to a more nearly normal and per- manent prosperity. We must develop men who will open new fields and paths for us. We will never have many of the opportunities such as these which were seized by Daniel Boone, John Rockefeller, and Henry Ford; nevertheless, at the present time of reconstruction, we have innumberable opportunities which have never been offered to any one before us. Some of us have completed our education; some of us will go on to various colleges and universities to specialize in certain fields. Regardless of our opportunities and our degree of education, however, there is a niche in the world set up for each one of us. We have been prepared; now we must seek our places. Let us go forth to conquer, remembering that no matter how humble our work is, it is still something we may exalt; and that no matter how impassive, it is still some- thing into which we may breathe a soul. WILLIAM MANN and EARL AILIO, Valedictorians. [Page Eleven]