Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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' pp ,gp r. .,, A ,, . ,W r W5 A 'ewtifgf ra fN I xl lx .r ah!! ,4 g ' L: J f -'A A Plea for Service Dedicated to the Class of ,l7. Dear classmates, here stand we, Souls eager, spirits free, Facing eternityf Praised be this hour! For we each one must he Lords of our destiny As wills each one that he Employ his power. The world is ours to use- And lifee-for what we choose: 'Tis ours to win or loseg Find joy or woe. God builded on a plan. It is the task of man To master what he can And thus to grow-- And growing, master still More worthily until He may at last fultill The lluilder's plan. That earth might know the light Of truth and love and right, And brother-ties unite The race of man, That every life. refined By fires of trial, might tind That richness made to bind lVlan's soul to God. What wonderful command God's heart for man has planned And given into his hand So free to use! But O, how man today, Sin-blinded, led astray Has lost the glorious way- Forgotten God. Dark, darker grows the fate! Injustice, greed and hate Make fair earth desolate With foul abuse. Oh, classmates, see the need! See how our fellows bleed In darkness! Let us lead Them to the light! God's children must be freed From ignorance and greed! gTwentyf

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c 'U Aff? 1 ,gffgf-' 5 ij-3 c .Q , J . ' L1 J , - . , ,M A lf- ' 'lf ' -- - e-------- - -1 fag:-.mega ,,,,, vzmg V f - CQ an ww ,.,, . . ., . Y. -U--W '--'Fix' - -V in the land in which he had dwelt in the days of his youth. And behold, who do we see with us again '? The maid, Ruth Slayton, who had so- journed in the land of California came back to stay with the Class of Sev- enteen, and in addition two handsome and fine looking youths by the name of Harry Harken from Cartersville, Montana, and Turner Shepard of the Fort XVayne High School at Fort Wayne, Indiana. And as the Class did journey through the land and over the hills of knowledge, behold, there were two maidens who were fair to look upon, who had strayed far from the companions with which they had set forth, and were much sor- rowful. The name of one was Beatrice Emison of the Fergus High School at Lewistown, Montana, and the name of the other was Sara Morse from the Steamboat Rock High School at Steamboat Rock, Iowa. And as the members of the Class did look upon them in their loneliness, their hearts were stirred in pity for them, and they did open wide, unto them their arms, that they might be gathered in, and lo, the whole num- ber at the end of the third year was twelve. Now this, the fourth and last year of the history of these great and wonderful Class of 'IT has been one of much hard labor for preparations are being made for them to take their final departure from the land. And behold, who do we see with us again in our last year but Vern Asbridge, who had traveled among the hills of the far NVest and whom we had not seen for a year. And it came to pass that the Class wished for badges, and many mes- sengers were sent to big cities and all the towns around about for samples of their fine jewelry and at last after considering and reconsidering, the Class professed itself to be satisfied with its choice. And pins were pur- chased with which they rested well content. And it also came to pass that the Class chose their colors. In choosing the purple for our leading color they have done so with a full understanding of its royal significance and they have asked themselves over and over again, Are we worthy? 'vVill we be able to live up to it? NVithin itself it is a perfect blend of the pure rich red of love and comradeship, and the clear bright blue of truth: and for their secondary class color they have selected white hoping that the purity it typifies may become closely inculcated in their personal princi- ples: that by blending it with the purple of devotion and comradeship, their love may be kept ever clean and white that they -may remain always pure of thought and word and deed, loyal of purpose and spirit-yes, loyal, and pure of motive in all that they may think or say or do throughout all the course of their lives. So they start on this voyage of life holding the colors of purple and white proudly aloft, and determining to stand by them to the end, build- ing for themselves lives of loyalty, of purer promise and richer valueg characters of sterling strength and tested purity, through a wise and happy blending of the purple with the white. And in the end the number was thirteen. Verily, verily, I say unto you, they must depart from thence, to go each his separate wayg to lands, they know not of, to do, they know not what, But let them not be weary in well doing, for in due sea- son they shall reap if they faint not. And now may the blessings that ever attend the noble and good and true, follow and abide with them, each and all, now and forevermore, Amen, -ALICE KILDAHL. -Nineteen-

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we c Q, ft f 'ke r+ , . D J N ' L3 J xffs Hear how their starved souls plead For life and love, Can we stand idly by Unheedful of the cry Of earth's great wrong, nor try To set it right? No! We must give our all In answer to God's call Knowing we cannot fall XVith Him above. Mankind needs but to know God and the right to go The upward path. Let's show Thein everywhere! In bonds of Service tied. Our cause the Truth, our guide Him whoni they crucified- Come! Let us dare! - y T V K. ku E i Q' -31,1 'Q-my -- . l A . , -, A GUY BARNES KbGuy79 Pioneer. President of Class, 1917. GUY BARNES Business Manager of Polygraph, 1916- 1917. President Pioneers Literary Society, '13-'14. Judge Poly State, '15-'16. Chief Justice. '16-'17. State Fair, '14-'15-'16, General Secretary Y. M. C. A,, '16-'17. Poly Gospel Team, '16-'17. -Twenty-one-