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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Mbna! OWL 00125 . ready sm11e do1n w1th the ever h l1tt1e fmger The man the Job of turnmg us around IS our Pr1nc1pal C .T Wh1tney riff The fellas con ban ,I fessor and the ma k book O G Henney I0 . . mf! . - . , . , , . . . . . 5 D? . . . Rr , . . . . 'Q -Q , . Ms.. ' ,- - rf, 4 sf X, Ne' e - 4 , . , . . . up your f1rst year 1 ob of wrappmg Martha Calvert A f1ne 3 as Dean of Glrls MISS n w1th the 6