Quincy High School - Oriole Yearbook (Quincy, MI)

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- ' T1-112 012101.52 sf President's Address ln behalf of the class of l928 it becomes my duty to bestow upon the juniors this token of honorg the cane to success, prosperity, and happiness. It is with the greatest pleasure that l accept this duty to which due justice can hardly be given. For one year we have cherished this token without which our struggles would have been in vain. The difficult task which it lightened for us and the numerous ideas which it revealed to us we shall never hope to recall. As time is fleeting We can but here call attention to the untold abundance of brightness with which it has filled our Senior year. We bid you Juniors to consult it in time of doubt or difficulty. Learn to trust its unerring reply which is for your own welfare and that of your fellowmen. Make it your personal duty to apply this talisman to all your unconquerable difficulties and unbear- able burdens and you have our assurance that, this done on your part, the solution, clear and simple, shall lie exposed to view. Not far hence is the time when you shall take our place and not until then shall you see, more clearly than words can express, how this friend never failing shall play a part in your future career. But when this time will have come we trust that you will fill the vacancy made by us in such a manner that no fault or Haw can ever be detected. We have set a standard, Juniors, that is not easily attained. Yet we know that you have the ability to leach this standard both morally and intellectually and urge you to exert yourselves to the utmost of your ability and to take every possible advantage and assure you that the results will be none but satisfactory. it is with the greatest sorrow that we part with this token: the lone star which has guided us through difficulties inconceivable, the assistant which has lightened our burdens unbearable, but dear juniors, we think not first of ourselves and our own welfare but of you and yours. ln accordance therewith take this cane and- ln years to come, when memory leads To bygone days, heroic deeds, Your souls turn back with thought of yore To bliss once yours, but nevermoreg Then, ah, then may you plainly see How useless the struggles of life would be Without this leader, this guide and friend, With always a helping hand to lend. May it awaken the spirit which within you lies, And help you to the topmost round to arise, Guide your footsteps, soothe your fears, Lengthen life's journey, lesson life's tears. May you at awakening on the morrow know no evil pain or sorrow, But rejoice to find your name a permanent place in the Hall of Fame. Bernice Sattler RESPONSE BY JUNIOR PRESIDENT ln behalf of the Class of l929, we accept with great pleasure this cane, which as you have just said is an emblem of success, prosperity and happiness, to the members of H. S. l can assure you that we will regard it with the greatest of care and shall never cease in our struggle to uphold the principle for which it stands. Many hundred pupils, backed by a strong hand and guided by a thoughtful mother have passed from this High School out into the broad world, having learned how to work for their own and others' advan- tages. As we glance over the records we find that they were endowed with the teaching of success, pros- perity and happiness. Probably some of the more important topics were brought home to them at this ceremony as they were to us, the Class of 29. We thank you for the honor of accepting this emblem from so worthy a class as you have proven to be. May you all be as successful in the problems of life as you have been in High School. Next year we shall do all within our power to set a suitable example for all under-classmates. Thus enabling us to hand this untarnished cane on to our successors with even more pride than you have done so. Again we thank you and we shall prove to you that your trust bestowed in us is well founded. Nlearl Kunkler I 4' '- .13 x 1111 1 Q 2 5 lily

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Beginning top row. left to right: Gwendolyn Saffoxd Glad3'S MHTCKIIBFI UKinP. 'lGlsdie French Club '18 Athletics '27-'28 Chorus and Chorus and Glee Club C1122 Club Operetta '28 Evelyn Kesson Bubbles Treasurer '28 Ch -rus and Glee Club Operetta '27 French Club Literary Editor Oriole 'ZB Bernice Sattler U Sally President '28 Secretary '27 Ass't. Editor of Oriole '28 High School Editor '28 Pres. French Club '28 Operetra '27 Chorus and Glee Club Maybvlle Taylor Ruth Wilsolx Hurry Van Nasdale Mary Esther Trenary Erma Tools Tim Polly Ass't. Joke E:d, V' ,p ' fG1 e Oueretta 'ZB Chorus and of Orwle 25 lceClx:li '38 e Class Harmonicist Glev Club Latin Club '27-'28 Chorus and Operetts 'Lb Chorus and Glee Club Glee Club Operena '27 Page 15

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t 'Ti THE ORIOLE f Salutatory The Class of i928 extends a most cordial greeting to the parents, friends and visitors here to-night who have aided us in successfully completing with honor and triumph, four short years at Quincy High School. We realize that without your help it would have been impossible for us to have reached the crossing of the roads where we now stand. When we meditate upon various events of our lives, there is not one among us to whom the mere mention of the words, New Year's Eve, does not recall some vision of a most treasured or loathed mem- ory. Nloreover, perhaps no two of us would picture the same things. It is then that meetings and part- ings, sorrow and gladness, past and future, loom before us. Then some of us think of the Past Years, others thinlcof the opening of the New Year, and still others of the New Years to come. But friends and classmates, did you ever stop to compare the Evening of the Old Year with the Even- ing of High School life? Those of you have, have some idea of the Dawn of New Era in the lives of those who on this Commencement night cheerfully turn toward whatever future Fate has in store for them. Allow me to picture for you the contrast between the Evening of the Old Year and the Dawn of the New Year. We are standing on the crossroads of life. Numerous roads extend in every direction to attract the youth of to-day. Some lead over hills and rocks of hard work, trials and discouragement to the place called Success. Other roads-Laziness, selfishness, etc., lead us to the place called Failure. The roacl which has led us through H. S. has not always been smooth. There have been times when it has been almost impossible to make the gradeg times when it seemed as though we were going back- wards instead of forward. Sometimes we have been tempted to take a detour to the road-Careless ness, only to find that it led us into the valley of discouragement. We now stand at the forlcs in the road. Few of us will take the same roads. They extend on and on to the place called Success or Failure. The lessons and experiences which we have learned and experi- enced during our four years at H. S. will serve as a map to guide us straight e'en though the road be sometimes steep. They say life is a highway And it's milestones are the years: With here and there a toll gate, Where we pay our way with tears. lt's a rough road and a steep road And it stretches broad and far, But it leads at last to a Colden Town Where Houses BIC... Evelyn Kesson 7 -K, Ill' 19 2 3 My