Sauk City High School - Sauk Log Yearbook (Sauk City, WI)

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Commmcemrnt -Program Overture Grand March Orchestra Entrance of Class Solo I (a.) “Thine for Life” — Mascheroni I , — I (b.) “Absent -Metcalf f L E Weiland Our Foremothers America, Mistress of the Sea Purity in Politics Annette Lang Eugene Reif Robert M. Rieser Instrumental Duet - The Misses Naffz and Truckenbrodt Forestry in Wisconsin - - Walter Truckenbrodt Our School—Yesterday, To-day, To-morrow Lynda Homberger Music, “Bridal Chorus”—Arr. from “The Rose Maiden”— by Cowens Quartette—Mrs. W. C. Schorer, Mrs. O. Hahn, Mr. L. E. Weiland, Mr. A. Marquardt Presentation of Diplomas Farewell Waltz M. T. Buckley Orchestra Class Motto—“Rank is our aim.” Class Color -Azure Blue and Silver. Floral Emblem—Lily of the Valley.

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€ ttr JForemotJjrrs ANNETTE LANG AF ur foremothers ! What sweetness does the name mother in any of its relations bring to the human mind ! We should repeat again and again that word It tells of sacrifices from the dawn of history when woman was sister to the brute —the mere slave of man—to this time when she is a monarch in her own home. Fore-Mothers ! that word has meaning high minded, sin- cere, active, self-sacrificing. Repeat it to-day and do it reverence. The churches do honor to their saints; the great nations do honor to their heroes; let the world to-day pledge its love to her who is a hero and a saint in all ages and all nations. It is her right for to-day the world lives in all her grandeur and all her hopes thru the influence of womanhood. Our fore-mothers! There is no history more painful to read, more pathetic, than the history of woman from the time when she was a slave—a clod of the earth—until now when she has taken her place the equal of her more fortunate brother in nearly all nations. In pre-christian civilization woman was without honor or rights. The intellectual centres of Rome and Greece did not acknowledge her. A low estimate was placed on woman as an essential element of their civilization. They did not at- tempt to enrich or elevate womanhood, and for this defect not all the victories achieved by their legions, not all the wealth gathered by the proconsuls from the countries of the world could make a compensation. A Roman citizen—a proud title this in olden days; the nation owned none prouder. But the government of Rome was a government of the men, by the men and for the men, and a reflection of this thought was found in her laws. Woman’s tender influence was lost to the nation. Grecian woman, and especially the Athenian woman, was more to be pitied. The brave Athenian warrior did not esteem or respect his wife. She was shut out from social life. She was prisoner in her own home. Her very life was at the