Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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THE CRIMSON RAMBLER 7 ing with us now, we.wish you cont.n- ued success in all your work as we bid you farewell. Teachers:-VVho have been more than teachers, who have been friends and advisers to us in all our work, we thank you for all your interest and helpg and hoping you long remain 'at Standish High School and be to others what you have been to us, we bid you farewell. Schoolmates:-As we leave you we vyisli you all the happy school life that has been ours and hope that all your schooldays will be as joyful as ours have been. Classmates:-I say goodby to you last because I hope that we will stay in each other's thoughts longest. XVe are net saying goodby to each other for all time tonight, but we are saying it for all time to the good old days at Stan- dish High. As we are going on to other days that will be just as happy as those gone by, we must not feel too sad. Let us forget neither our high school days nor the teachers and friends who made them possible. Let us always remember the friendships formed there and when we grow old and see other carefree high school students let us not criticize them too harshly but remember that we were once the same ourselves. And so, dear Classmates, I bid you all goodby. SALUTATORY EDNA BUTTERFIELD Speaking in behalf of the Class of 1925, I extend to all present the most cordial welcome. Parents of our Class :-We acknowl- edge once more the value of your sacri- fices, which have made this occasion possible. It has been your unfailing help, your joy at our successes, that has cheered us on through our four years. Friends and Alumni: - VVe thank you for your influence and interest. The interest which you have shown in the new Commencement Issue of the

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6 THE CRIMSON RAMBLER ' N SCHOOLDAYS RUTH LIBBY, Valedirfcmzn I wonder if anyone ever realizes the value of his schooldays until they are over: really knows just what help they lave been and what good times they have furnished? I don't believe a per- son does. But just as soon as school- days are over, everyone realizes at once that the most carefree part of his life has ended. VVe thinkuofvschooldays with joy be- cause we still have the knowledge we acquired, not only school lessons but als.m the lessons in honor and good sportsmanship. VVe can meet our old c'assmates and talk of the good times we had togetherg of the time we skipped school for a ball game or to go fishing, or of things we did when The teacher's back was turned: of the time one or the other of us won a prize in spelling, or more likely in some form of athleticsg of all the wonderful times we had on just ordinary days. The friendships formed at school are thc-.sc that last a lifetime. The friends that one can go to, to be helped when one lxas been unfortunate as well as to be praised when one has done some- thing great. Friendship is what makes school life so happy. VALEDICTORY Parents and friends:-lt has been you who have made our four happy years at Standish High School bossille and we are grateful to you and have tried to show you that we are. XN'e liope that you will be as kind to all the following classes of the school as you have been to us, and sincerely thank- ing you for your great interest we lzid you farewell. 'Fuperintendent and members of the school board:-You who have been appointed guardians of our school, we rea'ize that you have taken an impor- tant part in our high school career. XVe thank you for all the kind encour- agement and help that you have given us, and we bid you farewell. Alumni: - VVho have gone from Standish High School with all the hopes and ambitions that we are tak-

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8 THE CRIMSON RAMBLER Crimson Rambler stands as a proof of your devotion to the school. From tonight we, as alumni, pledge our loyal support in guarding the welfare of, and doing all we can to help Standish High School to become a bigger and better school. Faculty and School Board :-XNe bid you welcome tonight, hoping our pro- gram will express, in a measure, the appreciation in full for your unfa ling help and kind interest in our work. Schoolmates:-We welcome you as sharers in these exercises. VVe wish you the best of success in your remain- ing years at Standish High School. To all I can best express my feelings with the one word, Welcome MAKING OUR Llvss WoR'rH WHILE Everyone was meant to do some special thing. There is one thing which everyone can do better than an- other. The first thing which we must do to make our lives worth while then, is to find out what we were meant to do, what our life work shall be. After we have found this out, we should do everything we undertake to do thor- oughly. Work that is half done is better left alone. But if We do well everything that comes our way we will find that we will accomplish much, even though the progress may seem slow. Our yesterdays were once our to- morrows. When we think of the days that have gone by, our yesterdays, would we do things differently than we did do them, would we make use of the precious time which we wasted, would we set aright the little things which crouble our consciences? Many times we look back on our yesterdays and say, VVell, that's all over now, it doesn't matter, I did that yesterday, and yesterday is gone for- everf' But when we think of it, wasn't yesterday once our tomorrow, weren't we once looking forward to its coming with happy anticipation and making plans for it? And now that it has gone by We think of so many little things we might have done differently and so many little mistakes we made. Let us then, if We wish to make our lives worth while, do everything today as well as We can, to try is better than to fail without trying. Our failures, after we have tried, bring us under- standing, and help us build up our successes. When we have learned to keep our hands occupied we must train our minds to be alert. Reading and learn- ing will help to make our lives worth while and keep our minds alert to gen- eral knowledge. If everything which we have should be taken away, our clothes, riches, and other possessions, what we have truly learned can never be taken away. From everything which we read there is always some little thing which we learn. Learning not only makes our own lives worth while but will enable us to teach others and help to make other lives worth while. No life can be worth while without happiness. If we try to be contented with the things around us, we will gain happiness. Pleasures bring us happi- ness. The simple pleasures are best of all. The sweetest delights are to be found in the common possessions of mankind-the caress of the sun, tl'e