Rock Ridge Hall - Rock Ridge Annual (Wellesley Hills, MA)

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i. ,, scholastic work or start on our business career, the class has learned that to win one must iight and iight hard. The time is now at hand when we as a class must part perhaps never to meet again. Let us defy those circumstances which might arise, tending to weaken the strong ties of friendship that have been so dearly formed here. Wfe go forth as mem- bers of a large family to meet again when occasion offers, always ready to help one another, and never forgetting to honor the school which has been so dear to us. Let today, then, be the brightest and happiest of our school life, and although the class of 1912 has but a short time to live, let us be of good cheer and enjoy these last few hours. Page Fourteen. WVe are today parting never to meet again, but this fact does 11ot dampen our spirits when we realize that our graduation is merely a step by 'which we ascend to higher things in life. And so through the exercises today I bid you listen to our chosen representatives as they give you in a small measure, various pictures of our school life, as they prophesy into the dis- tant future, or as they recall the past, and as they offer advice to those of you who are to fill our places in the years to come. May I, then, offer the cordial greet- ings, to you all, of the class of 1912, and extend to you the gratification of our illustrious class that we are able to share with you the exercises of our graduation. H. D. FELT, '12,

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Extracts from Salutatory Address. JE Superintendent, Headmaster, Faculty, Ihdergranluates, Friends : IIE class of 1912 of Rook Ridge Hall extends to you a most cordial wel- come to our commencement exercises. Our Work during the years we have spent here at Rock Ridge has been pleasant and profitable and now as we are about to part we feel that we are able to take up our future work well prepared. VVe welcome you today and express our appreciation for the interest you have shown in us. Todayiis undoubtedly the most im- portant o11e of our school life. lt is a day on which we look back upon the years of school life which have preceded 3 upon times when we have thought we would never reach this stage of learning and equip- mentg upon times that have been happy and cheerful and others that have been sad and gloomy. fd! -A! lVe look back upon the happy moments of our school life with ever increasing joy and try to forget the fewer moments of tribulations. At all times we have tried to push o11 to our goal accepting both victory and reverses in all of our school activities with the feeling that we have always done our best. lVe have looked forward to college with only a vague idea of what it was and of what it meant, and have never realized so much as now how mneh and how all- important is the education yet before us. For some of us, perhaps, our school days are over and we realize that all too soon we must go forth to fight the battles of the World alone and unaided. For the more fortunate of us it means an opening of new scenes, new ideas a11d new customs for which we feel that our work has well prepared us. lVl1ether we continue our Page Thirteen.

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President's Address. JE Superintendent, Head-maste7', Faculty, Undergraduates, Friends .' HE class greeting has been given to you, the valedictory, prophecy, will and history are to follow, given by representatives of our class of 1912, of Rock Ridge. The Presidents address must, however, be one of welcome to you and be an expression of the appreciation of the class of 1912 for your interest in us- This is the final meeting of the class of 1912, as we shall attend the Carnival Ball tomorrow evening as Alumni. It is hard to realize, because we are so accustomed to put aside the dignity of Seniors, that we are unable to feel fully the change to the standing of Alumni. On this, our last day, we look with pride upon our record in the past, and while there is a feeling of sadness on leav- ing that which we all love, still we realize JE fd! that there is work ahead, and work, which we shall attack with the same spirit with which we solved the problems that have come up during the years spent at Rock Ridge. Our years at Rock Ridge- have been eventful and at all times the class of 1912 has been up and doing. 1Ve have had a large share in the honors at Rock Ridge and have had some reverses. The class has made mistakes, as all classes do, but we have taken these mistakes, diagnosed them and benefited by them as a result. We continued to work, making more mis- takes, acknowledging them, when after calm deliberation we had seen them, but incidentally achieving something in our efforts, which more than made up for the things we lacked. In all of our activities, we tried for team work. In athletics We pulled to- Page Fifteen