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

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Faculty MR. JAMES MILLS Chemistry MISS ALVENA SEIBERT ------ Home Room MISS FLORENCE WEISE - - History MR. WILSON MONTGOMERY - Mechanical Drawing MISS JOSEPHINE WOODWARD Home Room MISS CATHERINE MEEHAN Mathematics MR. CARL STEINBORN Physical Education MR. HOWARD SOMMER ------ Commercial MISS LAURA MOORE - Foods MISS EVELYN STEPHEN English MISS MILLICENT NEIL Home Room MISS MARION ROWE Science MISS GERALDINE TURNER Commercial MR. ERNEST STRAFFON Home Room MISS MYRTLE MAY - Commercial MISS HELEN SULLIVAN - Social Science MISS BEATRICE WOODWARD English MI SS CLARISSA McCOLLOM ----- Mathematics MISS ETTA REID History MISS MARGARET STEVENSON - - - Mathematics, Science

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Valedictory THOMAS HANCOCK, January. Salutatory Having reached our ultimate goal of graduation, we must never cease looking forward to our betterment of social and education duties. We have only started. We are like a ship embarking on the eternal surging sea of life. High school has been preparing us to face these turbulent waters but only by eternal vigilance and good faith will we weather the gale. We stand poised on the threshold of a new life — inexperienced, idealistic, filled with the certainty of conquering the world. As Francis Thompson says: “O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, O world unknowable, we know thee. Inapprehensible, we clutch thee.” We must set our course for the port of self-betterment and in reaching this or striving to reach it our entire intercourse with social affairs and conditions will likewise improve. Life is like a cycle. We benefit our own existence, our better life makes for a better community, a better community makes a better state, and so on until we come back to the betterment of ourselves. We have been given many instruments, which, if we follow the edicts of our good teachers, can be put to use for the accomplishment of better things for humanity. These days of strained foreign relations should prove the necessity for unceasing efforts for better and firrqer faith in each other. Only until this is accomplished can the truer state of mutual livelihood be bettered. Only through this self-same method can come the prevention of disastrous wars. Education will prove the futility of the useless slaughtering of the flower of manhood. By better equipping our minds we should be more capable of controlling barbaric emotions which cause such dilemmas. Class of 1936, these simple admonitions should merely form a prelude to your own course of action. Trusting in our own acquired abilities and fully aware of the preparedness we have received in our high school career, I am sure that our courses will be true, and we shall reach that distant port. We can here thank those competent instructors for their friendly and freely given advice — at no time did they falter in their undertakings and so we should do likewise and adhere strictly to our course. As William E. Henley writes in his immortal “Invictus”: “It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” HELEN McCABE, January.