Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The Soldan Patrons, Association OFFICERS . Mr. J. Harry Pohlman, President . Mr. Joseph Wall, First Vice President . Mr. A. J. Krohn, Second Vice President . Mr. J. B. Glover, Secretary Mr. William H. Benert, Corresponding Secretary . Mr. Frank Waldman, Treasurer. T HE SOLDAN HIGH ScHooL PATRONS' ASSOCIATION is composed of the fathers and mothers of the students, and those who are interested in the welfare of Soldan High. It was primarily formed to assist the students and to cooperate with the faculty of the school. Each year entertainments are given by the Patrons' Association, and the proceeds are donated to the various school activities, and at each graduation a donation is made by the Association to the Library Scholarship Fund. The Soldan High School Patrons' Association is a branch of the St. Louis Public School Patrons' Alliance, and was founded over forty years ago by thirteen civicf minded men for the purpose of being of service to the children and to the public schools of St. Louis. This organization has grown and developed until today it has seventyfthree branch associations, all working for a common cause. The Patrons' Alliance was instrumental in establishing a scholarship at Washington University for deserving high school students. THE SCRIP TEN

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NINE TI-IE SCRIP selves. It is so very easy to put the insignificant and crude and unworthy in the place of rightness in merryfmaking, so easy to put selfishness where welfare of others should be our concern, so easy to let laziness and indifference displace zeal and high endeavor, so easy to forget to put first things first, so easy to lose the great vision! How impor- tant it is, therefore, that we keep ourselves ever in line, ever faithful to our worthiest selves, ever earnestly at work on the highest purposes of which we are capable, ever true to the glorious vision of living nobly and serving greatly! It's a matter of minute' byfminute vigilance and of dayfbyfday high effort. Will you join me in liking very much the lines of Samuel Ellsworth Kiser's TODAY? This day is mine-my own! The sun Looks o'er the world's red rim at meg The countless days before this one All dawned that this great day could be: The aeons that have passed were all Required to bring this glorious day To let my moving shadow fall Across the level way. 9 tv. The past-the long, long tapering past- But ope'd the way and cleared the scene For this day that has dawned at last! This greatest of all days! Between The dawn and night shall I but sway In idleness, or heartily Do something well to mark this day That I have lived to see? In this spirit, let us seek to use every day to take us forward in our growth in dignity and significance. Our earnest wish for you all, Soldan Boys and Girls, is that you become the men and women of the highest quality of which you are capable, so that your happiness and the general welfare may be served. We are proud of you, and we know that you can, if you will attend to it, move on and on up the heights of splendor of which we speak! We pray that you will devote yourselves earnestly and constantly to these beautiful ends! Sincerely yours, H. P. STELLWAGEN

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H. C. ZEIS Assistant Principal