Sterling High School - Alpha Yearbook (Sterling, OH)

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VALEDICTORY Another class has now finished their work in dear old Sterling High, and are ready to launch upon Life's great ocean. We are greatly indebted and deeply thankful to the parents, teachers and friends, who have helped and encouraged us during our school life. Parents, we, the members of this class, sincerely thank you for having trained us to become what we are. We realize many great sacrifices have been necessary to permit us to advance thus far. But we hope to repay you by living such lives as will ever make you thankful that these sacrifices were made. For you have taught us how to care for our physical selves, so, if need be, we can make a living by hard, drudging toil. You have also taught us by many exemplary actions, that a high moral standard is necessary to real success. We cannot be true men and women unless we possess good morals. And now, in these times of stress, you are giving us a splendid lesson in patriotism by firmly standing by our government. Mothers, you have been strictly Hooverizing and practicing economy in every possible way, and so have not only taught us to be patriotic, but have given us a fine lesson in economy, which will always be of great value. Fathers, you have staunchly backed our government's calls for money by purchasing Liberty Bonds, War Saving and Thrift Stamps, and perhaps bought some stamps for your children, thereby encouraging them to save. You have also helped in various ways to produce food, some by War Gar- dens, and others by using all available space so that every acre might produce its maximum. May we take a lesson from them and do our best in everything we attempt. But this is not allg you have developed our spiritual nature by aiding and teaching us the way to our Heavenly Father that we may always have a firm solace in all our great troubles. May we ever remember your in- structions, heed them through life and we will certainly always do right. We desire to thank the members of our Board of Education for main- taining the school so well, for furnishing the very desirable Course of Study, and we trust you will treat all future classes in the same generous way. Teachers, whose patience we have so often tried, we realize that we owe a great debt of gratitude to you. You, who with ever ready expla- nations and cheerful encouragement, have helped us through many difficult tasks and problems, have given us invaluable lessons in patience, which we will do our best to heed. You, too, have tried to show us our patriotic duty in these war times, and you have practiced what you preached, for you have done your duty to the utmost, plus, it seems, a little moreg and 18

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In one of the New York daily papers I noticed a headline in large letters, Famous Pitcher Signed Contract with New York Giants for 325000 for the Season of 1939. Upon reading further I discovered that this famous pitcher was no other than my old classmate, Paul Johnson, generally called Boots. At New York I boarded the fast B. 8: O. train, No. 6, which soon took me to Chicago, Illinois. While visiting my cousin in that city we called upon a relative in one of the large hospitals. My attention was attracted to the capable head nurse who performed her work with remarkable skill. Just as we were about to leave the hospital we met this nurse and my cousin introduced her to me as Pearl Scheetz. Pearl and I had a little talk and she told me that she amused and comforted her patients by composing and reciting poetry to them, the poetry being of such a nature as to cause them to be led away into realms where pain is unknown. From Chicago I traveled by rail to Salt Lake City, Utah. Here I became very much interested in the detailed accounts that I read in the newspapers and of conversations that I heard of the new mode of carrying mail and of the avatrix who performed such daring feats in the air and delivered the mail with such great speed. This wonderful avatrix was Minnie Rosse. The friend whom I wanted to visit next lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and as Minnie was having a vacation, she said she would take me to St. Louis in her airship. Since I always had a desire to ride in the air, I was glad to go with her. We left Salt Lake City at 6 a. m. and arrived at St. Louis at 6 p. m. of the same day. That evening Minnie and I went with my friend to the theater to hear the latest comedian, who, she said, was so very interesting. Well, we listened to one joke after another until I finally decided that Oscar, for this great comedian was Oscar, had not for- gotten how to tell funny stories. My friend took me to Chicago in her Ford and there I took the Lake Shore to Cleveland, where I spent a couple of days with my cousin. The last day of my visit I purchased a cat and parrot and then came back to Sterling to settle down to a quiet, peaceful life with my pets. WANDA MOINE. 17 F..

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we are proud to claim you as having been our teachers. We will try to live so that you will be proud to mention the Class of 1918 as once having been a class of yours. Now, as we are through with High School life, we must bid farewell to you as our teachers, but we know your splendid influences for good will remain with us through life. So, in behalf of the class, I bid you farewell and hope that your memories of us will be as pleasant as ours shall always be of you. Classmates, we have spent our years of High School study together, and are now ready to launch our little crafts and start on our life's voyage. May we all make high marks, of which we and our fellow men will always be proud. You have heard our Past related and our Future prophesied, whether it comes true or not, time will prove. We may, in the course of a few years be widely separated, but we will all recall with a thrill of pleasure, the happy, helpful years spent together in Sterling. The firm friendships here begun will have their good influences upon our future. We have all contributed in some way to make this class one of the best that ever passed out from Sterling Highg surely such a live spirit will help in our future troubles and battles, and give us a courageous victory. But now we must part, sever our old relations and begin our life's real work, so I bid you all a kind farewell, for we may never all meet again on earth, but we hope to meet in a heavenly home, for we all intend to heed the injunction of the poet who says: So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of Death, Thou 'go not like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lays down to pleasant dreams. MIDA STEELE. 19