Roosevelt High School - Wy Hi Yearbook (Wyandotte, MI)

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Mr. Edward C. Bryan 2491 - 22nd St. Wyandotte, Mich. .MA .xdufoziograla g . . We, the members of the 100th and 101st graduation classes of the Wyandotte High School, are happy to dedicate this yearbook to Edward C. Bryan, valedictorian of the Class of 1885, who has given many years of unstinted service to Wyandotte. Born in Portsmouth, Ohio, August 2, 1867, Mr. Bryan was brought to this city by his mother on Sept. 16 of that same year and has been a resident here since. Shortly after his graduation from high school, he secured his first employment with the J. H. Bishop Co. In 1894 he was elected city clerk and re-elected the following year. During his second term in this official capacity, Mr. Bryan was nominated by the Republican convention as a candidate for member of the State Legislature, where he served four years. Then came appointment to Washington in civil service work on the 12th U.S. Census. After two years in Washington, Mr. Bryan returned to Wyandotte and married Miss Lillian Rogers, city librarian. To them were born two children, Lynn Edward and Jessie Nina CMrs. Edgar Haighl, both of whom are residents OI Wyandotte. Appointment to the Board of Public Works and election to the City Council followed. ln 1918 he was again elected to the office of City Clerk and held this position until 1932. During this period he served 10 years on the Wayne County Board of Supervisors, seven years as member of the execu- tive board of the Chamber of Commerce -three consecutive ML leclicafe . . Excerpts from E.C. Bryan's Valedictory Address deliver- ed at the 10th Commencement of Wyandotte High School, .Tune 20, 1885: The whole earth is but one grand conglomeration of supplies adequate to the satisfaction of every requirement of humanity. Nature was never niggardly. On man alone rests the responsibility of denying him his co-equal share of Nature's inheritance. The tendency of wealth is towards concentration. Human nature has corrupted equaluse of Nature's sources of wealth. Ignorance, neglect or contempt of human rights are the sole causes of public misfortune. Human rights are too sacred to be long held subservient to a doctrine of selfishness. Education and truth can produce a civilization in which poverty is unknown. terms as president, clerk of the Charter Commission which prepared our present city charter and seven years as president of the Wyandotte Boat Club. Other services to the political or cultural life of Wyandotte have been seven years a member of the Fire Department Civil Service Board, member of the Charter Revision Commission, member of the Board of Adjustments and Control of the city zoning ordinance, president of the Acanthus Art Club and member of the Centennial Commission. Mr. Bryan, in connection with his brother, William, also operated the Bryan Boat Works from 1907 until the death of the latter in 1953. ' His pastimes have been wild fowl shooting, boat racing fboth rowing and sailingJ,and his hobby is oil painting of marine and landscapes. Although nearing his 87th birthday, Mr. Bryan is mentally and physically alert and each day, even in the severest of weather, goes daily to the Bryan Boat Works to work on boats, do oil painting or to talk about Wyandotte - past, present and future, with old and new friends who drop in. Because of his service to his family and his community, because of his friendliness, because of his cultural qualities, his pride in his city and his desire to be active at an age when most people have long since retired, the graduating classes of 1954 salute with pride a graduate of 1885 and consider him A Great Guy! .4.

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OPQLUGI' XM zndottz h1s reathed 1 new mllestone on the hlghway of educ lllllllll pro ress ind 1tl,.,1V8's usa tothe theme for thls ve ll s Annual blanelng Back XM Move Forward Thls xt ll of 1954 lb one that Wyandotte and partlcular lx the Roosevelt Hleh Sc hool, w1ll exe: lt member for lt lllHlkS the CentennxalAnnnersaryof the Clly the January fxaduatmg class reeelxcd dlplomfls at the lO0th Com mencement md to the Iune graduates go the honor of begmmng a new century of progress Wlth th1s ploud hlstory is a foundatlon we ean well glance back to ax old the mlstakes of the p 1st as we glrd ourselx es for future growth and greatness As the Vlvandotte of today I9 a far crv from the llttle vastly d1fferent from that of The Llttle Brown School of early years The hlghway of educauonal progress has been labor lously carved from a narrow trall of three R s to a broad hxghway w1th many outlets leadlng to the world of to morrow and gear ed to modern hlgh speed lxvmg Eid ucatxon was llterally drxven mto the mxnds of boys and glrls, often ua anatonuc channels ln the early days Now xt lb largely sugar coated and lnjected wlth a gen erous sprmklxng of rad1o telev1s1on and other aud1o v1sual capsules Even though thls modern educatlonal hlghway has been broadened to large areas It must be constantly 1nspected repalred and w1dened st1ll more for the vast traffic xt IS ealled upon to bear Where graduates ln the early days were 1n the half dozens they are now xn the hundreds all clamormg thelr wants and echoed by a commumtv that also wants traff1e on th1s educatxonal roadway Although the three R s may appear to be lost by the more glamorous tralls of sc1ence,med1c1ne art Vfltlllo' mechamcs transportatxon communlcatlon and the hu mamtles they are the mortar that bxnds the mxrxad courses 1nto a permanent usable educatlonal system The progress of the future depends upon the youth of today Glance back 1f you w1ll but only for the purpose of mov1ng forward Never were there such vast oppor tumtles as today and tomorrow s today You who make no effort to grasp these opportunmes, are domg a dls SCFVILG to yourself your school your commumty and your world Selze these opportumtxes Icharge you and pay heed to the words of Henry Ward Beecher We should so l1ve and labor 1n our t1me that what comes to us as seed may go to the next generatlon as blossom and that what comes tous as blossom may go to them as frult Th1s IS what we mean by progress opportunxty to make your mark take wlth you the follow lllg thoughts of Rudyard Klplmg 1n hls poem If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losmg the1rs and blamlng It on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for thelr doubt1ng too If you can wa1t and not be tlred by wa1t1ng Or bexng hed about don t deal tn hes Or be1ng hated don t U'lV9 way to hatlng And yet don t look too good nor talk too wlse If you can meet mth Tr1umph and Dxsaster And treat those two lmposters just the same If nexther foes nor lox mg fr1ends can hurt you If all men count wxth you but none too much If you can f1l1 the unforgnmg mxnute Wxth sxxty seconds worth of dxstance run Yours 1s the Earth and ex erythlng that s ln 1 James E Ostrum 'rl , RV. . , 2 ' V- ' .1 . ' y ' . ., ' , U . . , ' T' , . .' . , 1 .l by -M, I. ,X ,, x . . . b r , . , . . I , , Hg . -. H - . , i - 5, I , . 'J ' . ' V v . , , ' ' ' Y ' y FI.. . ' , 7, B.: . ' .3 ' ix. ' . k ,p . , , 1 . . 1: f . ' 3, , . .Av Q 2: . V N V -4 L. ' ' ' . V f - ' - ' ' ' 'Y communityof 100 years ago so is our educationalprogram And now, as you graduates go out into this world of . ' Lx ' ' 7 .- . - . ' - ' - , .1 wr . ' ' Y - , - , .. , .A . S . V - . . . . , T v . - . . , d v ' 5 . ' A . . , . 7. H , ., , 1 . . . . I 3 . .W 1 - . . . C , , , . . K 7 ! 1 ' rw v . , . , . . , . M ' ! A L ' 1 Y. I ' - - - 1 . I , x. ' . Y . S, 3 . , ' V. . , ' ' ' , , S ,Q . L - V Y ' y . . . e h 'Q -4 I 1 v V rv t Y ' t' ..-, 7 ' . , .' 5' ' .' . '

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Ma rJ 0! gznlucafi ms- Henry I . xx that - Mbert YL. Ylaeckxexe, Dr. ead, Sec: eww to Board, Superkntendenv, Barox X.-eix xo rxgxxv. KX, Cwgru C. Readh ' nv, P. S. Senema, Bama rag , Pr esxde W. -f sum , rznfencle t n P, J . Jenema imma YC Ekizabek A G. Peng , :ge 'B obicwa So-seph K. Marr, Geo Superintexxdenv, kXamXXton R X red Dev enporx, skeizmx xo Super mt axsmq, Y nd, A-5 anfj Thanks! For making possible a wonderful four Years' F red Davenp Ort Ham. llton Robichaud Psssxstam endem