Prairie Du Sac High School - Prairie Pride Yearbook (Prairie Du Sac, WI)

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WELCOME Kind Friends: To me has been given the pleasure of welcoming you to the Graduation Exercises of the Class of 1904. We are glad to be here and are glad to see you here. For four years and more we have been striving toward this the sweetest, happiest triumph our lives have thus far known. Our purpose has become a reality, and this moment in your presence we take the last step forward and reach the goal. Far back even in the grades, and again with increasing vividness in the earlier High School days we dreamed the dream of the night which should be our Commencement. Now it is here and we are happy, yet as we step from among our classmates to take our part in the program of tonight the emotion we feel is not all of joy—even as sweet music oft contains an undertone of sadness. It is pleasant to know that all over this great state and greater nation, in this beautiful month of June, hundreds, and thousands of High Schools are having their Commencements, and boys and girls, young men and young women are complet- ing carefully organized courses of study, thus laying the found- ation for more effective citizenship and service. We are proud to be among those who have done this work to completion. During the High School course the Class of 1904 labored diligently with persistent effort, never faltering in its purpose, but borne onward with the determination to accomplish its aim and achieve the goal of its ambition. There have been times when the work was heavy and the end seemed far, but we went on, mastering the difficulties as best we could, each thing mastered adding to our power to achieve yet other victories, until the path was clear and we are here glorying in our achievement and wel- coming you to this our celebration. We think of you not as mere onlookers but as those who have a part with us here to- night, for without the support of our citizens our High School could not have existed, and without the support, interest, and sympathy that has made for us this opportunity we should have forever missed this advantage and happiness which is ours. No boy or girl is fairly equipped for life without at least a High School education. Emerson tells us that. “The true test

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CLASS ROLL George Valentine Accola Katharine Margaret Ryan Philip Conrad Meyer Alta Ethel Teel William Joseph Ganser Lena Verena Hatz Kenneth L,yle Premo Lilah Elizabeth Keysar Edwin Gilbert Gasser Mazie Bushnell Keysar Flora Frances Buehler Cora Edna Thomson Page Motto.......................“Push” Flower........................Rose Colors...............Blue and Gold OFFICERS President.................................................Philip Meyer Secretary......................................P'LORA Buehler Treasurer...................................................Geo. Accola

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of a civilization is not the cities nor the census, not the size of crops, but the kind of men and women a country turns out.” To improve civilization and to spread culture there must be the means of popular education, and there must be the recognition of the value to be gained by spending the time and money necessary to get that education. The High School life does not consist in the mere learning of books. It is a training in character, and embraces all the larger life in the great outside world of action and affairs. It has its difficulties and its pleasures, its disappointments and its successes, its dark days and its bright ones, its anxieties and its hopes. It has its work-a-day life and its social life. It trains us to work together, to give and take in kindness, to guide and control our impulses, and to find out what we are and what we may hope to become. With these thoughts in mind we look back over our work, seeing perhaps even more clearly than when in its midst, the larger meaning of that which we tried to do. And now with the hope that you may enjoy with us the program we have prepared, once again I bid you a sincere and cordial welcome to this the closing hour of our High School career and the Commencement of the Class of 1904. Katharine Ryan.