Steamboat Springs High School - Galleon / Sailors Log Yearbook (Steamboat Springs, CO)

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Salutatory PA RENTS, TEACH E RS. SCH OC) L M A TES and FRIENDS: In ancient Roman times it was the custom of the Roman gladiators to address the public in these words: We who are about to die, salute you.” We. the class of '18. salute you. not as those about to die but as those who are celebrating one of the most important events in then lives. This evening marks the termination of four busy but.well-spent years and the beginning of a new era. W'e feel and are grateful for the fact that you have come, not to rejoice m our defeat, but rather to see us start out successfully into the future. As we leave our high school we are conscious of a greater sphere of activity and usefulness. W e realize that there are wonderful opportunities awaiting us and feel that we arc now more competent to meet them. 1 he future lies before us. mysterious and unknown, but tilled with its joys and sorrows, its opportunities and tempta- tions. and although we may choose different paths we hope that each will undertake his work in the fear of God. which is the beginning of all wisdom, and will ground his work on the righteousness of life, which is the onlv sure and ever-sure foun- dation. In these days the demand for well trained workers is most imperative. The day of Mr. Greeley’s contemptuous notice: “No college graduates or other horned cattle need apply,” has passed. for the college graduate is everywhere in demand. As A. E. W inship has so well stated, it is now certain that in every line of competition one must face well-trained men and women. Once again have the colleges in an hour of need demon- strated beyond the possibility of question that they are entitled to respect. The gulf between the theoretical and the practical has been effectually bridged by the fact that the government turns to school laboratories in its hour of need. At the present time college men are prominently connected with every new governmental organ formed to deal with the emergency of today. In the university laboratories hundreds of men are working day and night on problems connected with the submarine, artillery, masks for protection against gas, and many other tilings necessary in this great war. W e are leaving high school at the time of the greatest crisis in history. After this great war against tyranny and oppression there will begin a period of reconstruction in which we shall have a part. We have yet much to learn, but we wish to serve our country and will work with that end in view. Through the years to come we arc sure that no member of the class of ’18 will be found wanting when the country calls. On behalf of the class of 'IS I wish to thank the faculty, the board of education and our many friends gathered here tonight for their kind attention. I thank you. IRENE HEROLD.

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Ualebictorp TEACHERS, SCHOOLMATES. PA RENTSand FRIENDS: We arc celebrating tonight the commencement of the largest class that has ever graduated from S. H. S.. and we feel that we may claim first honors to quality as well as quantity, until now we hope you will believe this class has reached the standard of perfection. The entire class has been engaged in producing our class play and publishing our Annual the third Annual of S. II. S.—not because this work is neces- sary for our graduation course, but simply for the honor and pleasures «»f class activities. Tonight we start on a different journey in life. 1 he class will separate tomorrow and each one will start on his or her own work in life. e have received much in the past and now it is our duty to do what we can for our fellow men. I he class has never before realized how dear our school life was to us. Now. just before we part, perhaps forever, we have begun to see that the four years of our High School life has been to bind us together in bonds of friendship and understanding and although we are glad to be out of school it is hard to think of the friends and pleasures we have left behind us forever. W e owe our greatest debt of gratitude to the Board of Edu- cation who have given their time and interests in the work of education. Not only Colorado but the whole United States re- ceives the benefit of your labor. It will be shown, in the future, in building up and making solid, after this war is over, the great- est nation in the world. And this could not be. were it not for your work and of others in this capacity, since it is impossible for an uneducated people to do the work that is before the people of the United States today. It is said that the world is getting worse, and this terrible war is often mentioned as proof of that statement, but as long as civilizaion advances the world will also advance along a better and higher plane. But civilization cannot advance without edu- cation. therefore it is the people who work for education that increase the civilization of this old world of ours. Hence, we. the class of 18. are sincerely grateful for the support and advan- tages we have received from you, and we thank you. We arc thankful to our instructors for their work and interest in us during our school years. You. above all others, have been the ones who have made us realize what our work and ambitions should lead us to attain in the world. It may have been in the past that at times we have acted as though we were ungrateful and perhaps critical of your interest in us. But tonight, realizing the benefits we have received from you. we want to thank you ior the help you have given us to begin our start on our new life. To our superintendent. Mr. Thompson, the only teacher who has had the courage to stay with us the last three vears of our course, we want especially to show our gratitude for his interest in us and our school life. He has ever been the man who stood by us both in victory and defeat, whether on the athletic field or in the class room, and we are sincerely grateful for his help. W e hope that the classes in the. future will have the same chance and as good a faculty as we had. Undergraduates: To you falls the greatest and most important trust. It is for you to do your best and work together while in High School. School spirit is what makes a school successful. Without the right spirit on the part of the scholars the school is a lailurc. So it is you, who must in the future represent S. H. S. and show your patriotism and loyalty by backing your school to the limit, both on the atheltic field and in the class room. Work together as a school rather than for personal glory and I am sure that when you graduate you can look back with pleasure on your records in S. H. S. Classmates: In the past four years we have been laboring towards the goal that we have at last obtained. Tomorrow we begin a new life and the cry of the nation today is “Patriot- ism” and “Sacrifice.” So we must start to take our places and each will have to sacrifice something for his country. Some of us may have to give our lives in the fight for freedom in France, while the others can “do their bit” by making their sacrifice at