St Stephens Academy - Academician Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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of E Ruth Elizabeth Wittlif I build my castlea in the airy They end in smoke-I don't care. Marvin Vincent Westrick The magnet of his 'noble mind Found swiftly duty's frm decree. John Joseph Walton You hear that boy laughirig?+You think 'he'8 all fun, But the anyrls laugh too, at the good they hare done. Laura Harriet Carlisle A 'This maid might wear the fairest jewel, Not violating the law of like to like.

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Claire Anne Rawley Set it in this maiderfs golden hair To make her thrive as willful as before. Elizabeth Anne Samberg 'AHappy am I, from rare I'm free Why aren't they all contented like mel William Joseph Simpson He has choive words to express himself. Stewart Austin Sharrow I lore fool'.s experiments, I am, always making them. n

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President 's Oration ' John Walton, '24 ' Cfassmates: Do we as graduates look beyond the dreams of gold, showering bouquets and diploma-effulgence into the puzzling paradoxes of the years to come and Hnally into the Commencement Day of our Eternity. Most of us do not. Wie are chiefly concerned with impressions, consid- ered the real, the modern, the worth while, in human progress, forgetting the ideal or that which survives the laurel wreaths and plaudits of a day. Let us in imagination fancy ourselves visitors to the studio of a sculp- tor, one whose works are heralded as monuments to the art. The model is before him. He studies every line, every feature that marks the personality and strives to imitate it in order, to give to the world in bronze or stone, a replica of the original. It may take months or years of painstaking labor but yet the sculptor does not despair. And when there finally rises, as proof of his ability, a carved image, a worthy production of his achievement, does he forsake the profession, content with idle glory? No-his artistic soul longs for other work, other subjects and thus he too, has Finished to Begin. lf we will consider ourselves not as architects of our career, but as sculptors: we will no doubt accomplish greater results. True, this requires an added amount of hammering and chiseling but a successful career no ntatter what the profession may be, depends wholly upon the energy ex- pendefl. A If then by retaining our high ideals and moulding our actions accord- ing to the glorious standards evolved in our academy training we become bet- ter fit to one day enter into the Closing Exercises of Life, will we not feel repaid as did the Sculptor whose work was so nobly crowned through his tireless efforts. --s gs . A---- SONNET TO ST. STEPHEN'S George Fountain, '24 My last four years at St. Stephen's are spent. The weeks and months have passed and have I fulfilled My Duty, which was to build, A path to success with a gradual ascent, And to form a character that is not bent, To face the world with passions stilled And say that I have few.moments killed, VVishing for amusement that might prevent My future happiness and success. If these blessings I have attained It is entirely due to the instructions best, That I have from the good Sisters obtained, For my last time under St. Stephen's rule VVith sadness I now depart from school.