Scandinavia Academy - Trumpet Yearbook (Scandinavia, WI)

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16 THE TRUMPET People of this Community.-I t is largely to you we owe our thanks for this school which we have been permitted to attend and for the vision of a greater school here. You have given it your loyal support both 'financially and otherwise. May God richly bless and repay you. To the parents who have made it possible for the most of us to be here tonight, we also owe our sincere thanks and say Welcome. May you never regret the sacrifices you have made for a son or daughter, a member of the class of 1920. Members of the Faculty.-This has been a trying year for you. You have stood by us patiently through thick and thin, but how little appreciation you have received from us. You have always met us with a smile and set a good example that we might follow our motto. Grin and Grind . As this, to our regret, will be our last chance to bid you welcome, may you feel that it comes from the bottom of our hearts, a spot made warm by the spark of love which shall ever burn for you. We can no longer depend on your strong arm to lead us, but must paddle our own canoe. Your advice will calm our sea of life as oil does calm the raging billows of the sea. Fellow Students, grasp also the hand of welcome. You have become almost indispensable friends to us, but though we part bodily, our thoughts will ever be with you and our Alma Mater. We have spent many happy days together, and al- though we must say farewell to our schooldays, we have formed such ties of friendship here as shall never be severed. As We extend this our last welcome to you, our minds are filled with two things, memory and hope. Memory of the years spent to- gether, of the trials and tasks put before us, but all oversha- dowed by joy and happiness. Hope of the future, looking for- ward to see what it has in store for us. Again, I bid you all welcome, and may God bless our Alma Mater and the class of 1920. ADDRESS T0 THE JUNIORS Erling I. Blom, '20, It is with a mingled feeling of sadness and gladness that l say these words. Sadness, because it says farewell, that soon we must leave this dear place, perhaps forever. It says that perhaps we have met for the last time. It is a regret that we must sever, but as the old proverb says, Life is but a series of partings , so we realize that the day must come. On the other

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THE TRUMPET 15 V, ,' f A-if-kxw.-n I .4 ii, Q . g 'Q ful-:1,3f..,, - V it av Q ',2fiu?yQljflU.!!lil CLASS SONG VVe're leaving our dear school, our Alma Mater, The school that we have learned to love so well, We all will miss the happy days we've spent here, The days of joy and happiness and cheer. We never. never, never, will forget thee, We all do love thee, love thee far too well, So now we all must leave and say farewell To the school we'll ne'er forget. Chorus: Farewell, farewell, we are leaving you today, And it makes us sad indeed, to leave our good S. A. How we love thee, Alma Mater, Love thee more than tongue can tell, But we're leaving, we're leaving You whom we love so well. E. M. M., '20. SALUTATORY 'LeRoy Lovdale, '2O. People of this community, Parents, Members of the Fac- ulty, Fellow Students, Classmates, and Friends: ln behalf of the class of 1920, the last graduating class from good old Scandinavia Academy, 1 wish to extend to you all a most hearty welcome. I said the last graduating class from Scandinavia Academy, but we hope not the last class from Scandinavia. If it was, it would be a sad commencement, in- deed, for us. We would feel like motherless children having no Alma Mater to look back upon and to work for. But we see arising from those ruins on yonder hill, a new school, a more beautiful pillar in God's service. Therefore we are happy.

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THE TRUMPET 17 hand, it brings to me gladness, because it recalls to my mind the many happy days we have spent here, the many pleasant occurrences that have taken place. But there is a greater rea- son for being glad. Every time we look into your faces, we realize more fully that in most of you we have a friend. Happy, also, because of the wonderful lessons that we have been taught here, happy, because we leave far better equipped to battle life 's field than when we came. To you, dear Juniors, are we indebted most for all these things. You have been constantly helping us, and you have been our main support in everything we have undertaken. We have learned to love you more than the rest because you have worked with us longest. We have learned to appreciate your smile and pleasant greetings. From now on, you are going to take the place that we leave vacant through graduation. To you will fall the duties of this class the tasks that we as seniors have borne. We have striven to do this in such a way that it will be a credit to ourselves, our schoolmates, and to our Alma Mater. As we go out, we feel that there are many things we have failed to do, many tasks unfinished and poorly done. As you now take our places, we Wish you success. We do not as-k you to follow our example. Far from it. We hope that our mistakes may be a benefit to you, and whatever we have done that may be repeated, it i our hope and wish that you will use it. The class of 1920 chose as their motto Grin and Grind . Perhaps we have done more grinning than grinding, but we hope that we have been able in a small way to do something' worth while for you and for our school. We are, perhaps, the last class to graduate from Scandinavia Academy and to you falls the honor of being the first class to graduate from Central Wisconsin College. Our parting Wi h and desire is that your work may be lighter, your fruits be greater, and that whatever you do may be a boost for our Alma Mater. So we leave in your hands the honor of being seniors, and We know you will do as well and better than we have done. We feel that in leav- ing it in your hands, our Alma Mater will be raised and lifted higher than ever before, so high that it shall be seen for miles around, still standing on the firm principles that it has always stood. So long as it stands on such a foundation, it shall never fail.