Spencer High School - Spencerian Yearbook (Spencer, IN)

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?SPENCERIAN that Senator Clark challenged her to a series of debates, during one of the political campaigns, and Elsie very often carried off the laurels. If you are wondering whether or not a woman can be in politics, and also a good home-maker, ask Pete Leapley. We have often wondered, you know, whether XYard Manners would choose the profession of law, or accept his real calling and become a minister. I was conhdent that he was especially fitted for that. After completing a regular college course at Franklin college, he studied at one of the best theological schools in the United States. His ability was recognized and he was immediately called to a good pulpit, and is at present filling one of the best in the state. Ward, like all other young ministers, found it a serious handicap to his work to be unmarried, so early in his ministry, from among the many admiring girls in his congregation, who were anxiously await- ing his choice, he selected a wife who is proving to be a great help- mate to him. Do you not think that we may well be proud of the record of our illustrious class of 1920? Hoping to see you back in New York in a few weeks, I am as ever, Lovingly, Helen. Ht? 9: ray Xi , 45 1 ,sf , ' ,f ra ' i il is 1920

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'SPENCERIAN Valedictory of the Senior Class We are celebrating today the attainment of a goal set up in our Freshman year, and we stand at the meeting between a happy past and unknown future. After four long years of preparation, we are now ready for the beginning of other more serious steps on the ladder of life. We are proud of ourselves and happy, but beyond the glory of our achievements there is in our minds the consciousness of the seriousness of our situation, and the responsibilities that the future must carry. VVe are not unmindful of the part that the state and community have had in the services of this day, and we are not forgetful of the sacrifices that parents, teachers, and others have made that we might be here. We realize' that oppor- tunities for us to learn are far greater than they were fifty years ago. Our school equipment is more complete, teachers better qualified, and social advantages much greater. For all these efforts of the state and the community, we are very thankful, and truly hope that they have not been in vain. But our true ap- preciation for the things that have been done for us we expect to demonstrate in the future. We have attained the first round in the ladder of education, but we have caught only a glimpse of what it means to be ed- ucated. In our past school-life we have been taught to think, to will and to do. But we have learned by the problems we have had to solve in common, that the greatest thing is to think and to act to the best interest of the social group. While we once had the very vague idea that to be educated was to be able to make a living, and to be largely independent of society, we now know that to be educated is to be keenly alive to our responsibilities to the community, the state, and the nation. So beyond our pride we are aware of some of our re- sponsibilities. We feel that we are especially indebted to the Spencer High School. She has been a mother to us, and in leaving her familiar halls, we cannot escape the feeling that something is going out of our lives, or that we are departing 'from the protection and care of a hand upon which we have become dependent. But yet influences, yea the memories, of dear old Spencer High School will live in the heart and souls of the Class of 1920 until our minds become blurred, and our hearts cease to vibrate with the pulse of life. Thus, then, we shall feel no hesitancy in doing 1920