Quincy High School - Oriole Yearbook (Quincy, MI)

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ffgl THE ORIOLE PRESlDENT'S ADDRESS On a September day four short years ago, the class of 1927 entered High School with many hopes and eager anticipations of the life that awaited them. Today, a few more than a third of our former number have reached the goal of our childish ambition and are at the close of High School days. During these four years some of our youthful hopes have been realized, while some have been replaced by newer and broader ones. Many are, perhaps wondering what this course has done for us. It has not only given us a certain knowledge of subjects studied, but it has given us strength and ability resulting from the efforts put forth to obtain that knowledge. With this training and discipline some of us will pursue college courses, while others will be taught iflthe school of experience. , Nlernbers of the Junior Class: In behalf of the Seniors who are soon to pass to the ranks of Alumni, I have the honor of presenting to you this cane, may it endow you with industry and application, with charity and love for your fellow-students, you generous and liberal in your sympathies and sparing in criticism. May it endow you with a spirit of fellowship, uniting you in bonds of harmony which admit no dissension or enmity, causing you each to be interested in the other's good. It is our hope that this cane may bring you a large portion of love for old Quincy High. Live up to its teachings of justice, morality, obedience, and integrity. Guard its good name and uphold its honor, that it may continue to send forth young men and women, inspired to play a noble part on the stage of Life. May our cane invest you with esteem and love for the instructors who labor so imtiringly to develop you physically, morally, and mentally. Their training forms a large part of your equipment for life and we trust that your remaining year may be one of happy associations with them. If as a class we have made a good record or achieved worthily we hope that our cane may bring you the same measure of successg yea, even as Elisha asked for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah, so would we bequeath to you, dear Juniors, a double portion of our pluck, pep, industry and other qualities which have aided us during the strenuous months of our Senior year. Take our cane, we pray, and pass on to the Goal of Success. Wilfred Myers RESPONSE BY JUNIOR PRESIDENT We, the class of '28 accept with great pleasure and deep feeling this cane, which as you have just said, is an emblem of character, integrity, and intelligence to the members of Quincy High School. I can assure you that we will always regard it with the greatest of precautions, and shall never cease in our struggles to uphold the principles for which it stands. Four hundred sons and daughters and even more, endowed by a bountiful providence and trained by a thought- ful foster mother, have gone forth from this High School into the world, to labor for their own and human- ity's well being. As we glance over their records we find that a majority of them were endowed with the teach- ings of justice, morality, obedience, square-dealing, love and consideration for their fellow men. Probably some of these traits were brought home to them at this very ceremony as fully as they are to us, of the class of '28. We thank you for the honor of accepting this emblem from so' worthy a class as you have proved to be. May you all be as successful and happy in the school of life as you have been here in High School. Next year we shall do all within our power at all times to be a proper and suitable example for all under classmates, thus enabling us to hand this cane on to our successors with even more pride than any who have done so before us. Seniors, we thank you and do not say good-bye, but farewell until we meet again. Gladys Globensky ilrf ivii . -18.-

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'I THE 0122101.13 Tiff SALUTATORY Dear parents, friends and visitors, one and all, the class of 1927 extends to you a most cordial greeting and welcomes you to this, the laying of the final milestone along the joumey of High School. For four long years -yet speedy as we look back upon their passing-we have worked for and looked forward to these closing scenes in our career as pupils. We realize that if it were not for you, we would have been unable to achieve this peak of success, and therefore we owe you a very deep debt of gratitude for the privileges which we have enjoyed. Have you ever stopped to think that Life is made up of doors? Doors of opportunitv, Doors of Success and of Failure, and many others. Four years ago we as Freshmen knocked timidly at the doors of this institu- tion. We were admitted, and took up our duties and pleasures as they came to us. Many times during these four years we have knocked at other doors. To some we have been admitted, to others we have not. Perhaps some of us have chosen the wronq door, or perhaps certain doors to which we greatly desired access, have failed to open in spite of persistent knocking. ' There is, however, one door which we have all entered: this is the door marked Education We have each received a certain amount of education by studying our books. But these four years should indeed be counted a failure if we have not leamed to put these lessons to pratical use-we should now be able to take our part in a civic life and not vote merely as our great grandfathers did, but by free and unprejudiced thinking, promote the ideas and principles that will best benefit our Cotmtry. Our qualifications should now be such that we fan join in a social life in which we may aid in improving conditions in our city, state and nation, we should know how to promote a pure home life, a clean church life. and countless activities for the betterment of the world which are behind many other doors to be opened only for the asking. When we pass through this doorway of Life, we shall see stretching down the Hall of Opportunity many doors, each of which lead to some work in the world to be done. One leads to higher education at college, another to engineering or to teaching, and still there are many others. The privilege of entering one door be- longs to each of us, but which shall it be? To some, their pathway of Life will be clearly designated, but to others, it will be dim with diihculties and hardships. In a few hours, this door will swing behind us, never to be opened again and we will be forced to depend upon our own resources, to choose our work in Life. We are passing out into your midst, we are joining you in a larger school of progress. We are entering your pleasures and pursuits, to become one of you in your social, business and home activities. Parents and friends, we are grateful to each and every one of you for we know that without you we should have been unable to enter these doors. First we thank our parents without whose strong, never failing aid and encouragement, we should have been compelled to give up long ago. Next we thank the Board of Education for we have found you ever ready and eager to supply the equipment needed for our education. We thank the members of the Faculty for their readiness to help us over steep hills in the country of our lessons. And last, but not least, we thank our classmates for teaching us what a beautiful and glorious thing Friendship is. You have all helped us gain access to these doors and encouraged us to pass on unfalteringly from one to another. Soon this door which we are now facing will close forever and we shall no longer be members of Quincy High School. But nevertheless, we will always keep a special corner reserved in our hearts for those friends and scenes with which we have come in contact the last four years. And now before closing I want to repeat the words of a few moments ago, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome one and all from the Class of 1927 of Quincy High School. Helen Orcutt. YW 1 Q 2 '7 Mi 117-.

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il THE ORIQLE: illi CLASS HISTORY Four years ago, a group of sixty-four students entered high school, some with faltering bewildered footsteps, some with a pretended jauntiness, some steadily determined to not mind the jeering calls of Freshie, which constantly rang in their ears. Somehow or other, the first three days passed, with no fatal accidents, and the first freshman class meeting was called . We wondered how we were supposed to act, but it did not take us long to elect our officers. Marjorie Shepard was electedas President, Lloyd Van Patten as Vice Pres., Wil- fred Myers as Treasurer, and Rolene Taber as Secretary. Our class instructors were Miss Holland and Mrs. Coombs under whose supervision all of our class parties and other affairs were carried out. Ar the beginning of the Sophomore year, there were only fifty-three of the class left. But we felt that we had made up in importance for all we had lost in numbers. We went to our first class meeting with the cocksure air of those who knew. We deliberated carefully upon our candidates for the class offices, and finally elected Rolene Taber as Pres.g Oliver Phelps as Vice. Pres, Marcine Smith as Treasg Mildred Lucas as Secretary. That year Miss Galley and Mr. Rice were appointed as class instructors. We had three class parties, one of them being a farewell party for a member of our class. Miss Galley resigned at the end of the first semester, and was replaced by Miss Hicks. In the spring came the annual teachers' reception, put on by the Sophomores. We made a great success of this social event, thanks to the supervision of Miss Hicks. We parted at vacation time, feeling that we were indeed wise, to have gone already through two years of high school, and looking forward to the next September. When the next September came, the Junior class numbered forty-one. That year we chose Wallace Downer as our President, Marian Oxenham as Vice. Pres., Wilfred Myers as Treasurer, and Edward Hall as Sccrc- tary. Our class advisor was Miss Bond. We began to realize that after all we knew very little, and that we must choose our vocations, and think seri- ously of how to prepare for them. As our knowledge increased, so our social affairs increased. We had several merry parties. One party was the result of a contest between two sides, for the payment of class dues. The losing side treated the other side to a party. In June, the juniors financed a camping trip, for the seniors and themselves, at Coldwater Lake. This was the great event of the year, and was certainly worth the effort ex- pended to make it a success. Then-vacation. When we enrolled as Seniors, there were twenty-eight who had survived all three years, and won the name of seniors. We chose our officers carefully for this, our last year of high school. They are, Pres. Wilfred Myers, Vice. Pres. Esther Duncan, Treas. Lucille Greene, Sec. Marian Oxenham. This year we had the privilege of choosing our own advisor, and we chose Miss Bond, who had the year before proved her ability as instructor. Another lively contest resulted in a party given by the losing side in honor of the winners. Sev- eral other parties were held during the year, all of them successful. Then came the great event, the Senior Play. A committee, appointed by the President, selected the play, with the assistance of Miss Bond. The Empty House, was the one chosen, a three-act play, with fourteen characters, eight girls and six boys. The cast worked hard ate their parts, and the rest of the class did their bit, the whole resulting in success. Only twenty-three are left to graduate in the class of twenty-seven. Out of the sixty-four who began as Fresh- men, this seems a small number, but these few have obtained, through hard work, a good start in life, and they realize that it is only a start, and that much more is still ahead. Della Spencer Cecile Ryan Chester Lampman QCommitteej illf liif -19-