Spencerville High School - Echoes Yearbook (Spencerville, OH)

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4.01000--ECI-1053000-sooo Valedictory At the Foot of the Hill - - Climbing Fellow classmates, parents, faculty, and friends: We, as a class, have reached in our high scihool careers what comes to all through patient perseverance-the end. Tonight we close our high school careers and tomorrow each of us will take his place in the com- munity along with the many others. Along with taking our place in the community comes our share of the responsibilities, our share in the profits derived from them and our share of the pleasures that come from performing these duties. As the graduating youth all over the nation take on these responsibilities they are going to demand that they have the same rights as other adults. If they can go out from high school and carry their share of the burdens they should expect to share the same privileges as older ones enjoy. As we look back and think of all the school days together, thoughts of regret rise in our minds that these school-day pleasures must end. Year after year we have gone over the same lessons, we have had similar trials, we have shared school triumphs together, and we have taken our gains and losses as one. Our thoughts have been all in oneg but now, the day of graduation marks the first great change in our lives. The course of each of us will be different in the future. As we leave this high school tonight each of us will choose a different vocation to follow through life. Some of us will probably go on and get a higher education before starting our life vocation. Whatever, though, is in store for each of us we do not know, but surely it will be a life of great activity and variety. In climbing the hill of life what paths shall we follow? Shall we fol- low the paths of those who have gone on before us? If we choose to fol- low in the footsteps of those who have gone before us shall we be able to avoid the pitfalls and crevices as we go up the hill? Some of us will probably follow the footsteps of those who have gone on before. We shall advance up that course trying to make it broader and better than those who have gone before us have made. We shall not be satisfied to stop where our predecessors have stopped, but will continue to Strive for the top of the hill-our final goal. Will those of us who follow these paths be able to look ahead to see the errors made by those who have gone before and will they be able to avoid making the same mis- takes? Only time will answer these questions. IlllllllllllllllllllIIlllIIlllllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII P589 19 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-IllIIIIIllIIIIIllllIlIIIllllllllllllllllllllll

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ooo-ooo--ECHQESooo-ogg... Seniors Maxine Nliller - Mztxine's plenty, plenty shy, But just the same ht-r ,urntles ai She's awfully quiet. there-'s not 0 Butch LL 'e high LL peep. Hut you ztlrendy know quiet gals nrt- deep. Intramural Rztskethatll 1, 2. 31 Betty Slentz - You would think her quit-t You would think her shy. But even if she's into mischief She vain look you in tht- eye. Mixed Chorus 2, 3: Bulletin mural hnsketlmll 4. umfww. Stanley Kohli - Stanley likes to argue We ill know tuite well Bulletin 4. HSI t 71 I X a sqft GN , 4. xt YA. 'i Y Xl' N 'yi 41 Uperetta 25 Intru- lLSIim!V 4 1 . . But there is at Certain Sotulioniore lass Whom he thinks is really swell. Prince of Pe-ace llecluinzition 3, 43 Elimination Con- test 22: Stage Manager 3: Class Play 4, Margaret Hash - Peggy Withdrawn. Leo Brown - Smokey 1' Leo is hashful. ' VVQ will have to admit, By getting Ileeme-r's got He will throw you into a tit, aft: Mixed Chorus 1, 22 Reserves 1. 2. K Anna Mae Long - Annie LJ Giggling and laugliing all the clay i v Making' friends as she goes her way il, Never at clay is Annie blue. 4 X She's at friend that is always true. JI .5 f Shawnee 1. 2. N IllllIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Page 13 IIlIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllIIIIIIIIlllIIllIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

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ooo-ooo--ECHOESo00--ova VALEDICTORY---Cont. Then, too, there will be some of us who will blaze new paths up the hill of life. These people will open new fields of industry and new ways off doing things. It will offer new adventures for those who blaze these trails. No matter whether we follow the paths that are already made or whether we blaze new ones up the hill of life we must all face certain problems of the times. We must all watch for errors made by those be- fore us and prepare to avoid repeating them. A wise and thouglhtful writer says: The education received at school and college is but a beginning, and is mainly valuable in so far as it trains us in the habit of continuous application and ena.b1es us to educate ourselves after a definite' plan and system. We only hope that our school life has given us these habits. Feeling that we have gained these results, our thoughts turn toward you in heartfelt gratitude for the educational advantages with which you have favored us. With this in mind We aim and hope to become members of society, worthy of the school so well established and maintained by this generous community, For this we wish to extend to you 0-ur thanks. We, also, wish to extend our thanks to the faculty who have striven to prepare us for our start in life. Tonight we must break tlhe tie that has bound us as a class. Wherever you, fellow classmates may go, may you succeed in life and may you carry with you the spirit that has prevailed in the class- room. As we leave the school to enter upon our trip up the hill of life, let us remember this poem by Berton Braley: For the best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, Tlhe highest peak ha.sn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned, Don't worry fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun, For the best jo-bs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIllIIIIIIllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Page 20 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllll