Stivers High School - Annual Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Ol R FKINCIPAI

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ivers Symphony 0 believe in and live the true Spirit of Stivers. To reverence the high ideals of honor and duty which we have inherited from the faithful leaders of Stivers. To contribute gladly my best to the development of a “Greater Stivers.” To practice the High School Trinity— Faith, Love and Courage: Faith in myself; in my fellow-men; in my school; a faith that shall bring zeal— zeal that shall always aim to be victorious. Love for my Alma Mater, love of duty, love of people—a love which shall make the world better and brighter. Courage to be strong and cheerful in adversity and courage to tight life’s battles soldierly. To make myself a worthy follower of Stivers. —This is my Symphony.

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The Year of 1916-1917 PON the loom of 1910-1917 Stivers has woven a quiet pattern of orderly, continued, methodical work. The span of the year was shortened by the terror of an epidemic in September, so that of necessity we devoted ourselves to the primary purpose of a school. The working motto became the fine lines of Goethe: Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest. Let each wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day. And do his best. Occasionally there has come a bright splash of color as when we won the city championship in football, and later the Southern Ohio Championship in basketball. And at regular intervals there appears in the pattern of our year the bright, happy design of a morning assembly. Upon one such morning the admirable boys’ Band from San Francisco shoutingly pleased us, and drove us dangerously near the temptation of breaking the commandment against coveting. What couldn’t we do with such a band! It would inspire us to such heights in scholarship and athletics and the production of annuals that we should presently be in Alexander’s predicament with no worlds left unconquered. All school organizations have been as active in work and play as the time permitted, but each will chronicle in its place. There have been three new groups formed: a literary society, “Mennorah,” a Classical Club, and a Girls’ Bible Study (’lass. The school’s enrollment has been seven hundred seventy-eight pupils, with a faculty ot fifty-one teachers and assistant teachers. Twice our shuttle has been threaded with black; in January, when Thomas Bicker of the Junior Class was fatally injured while coasting, and again in February, when Miss Alexander, the assistant in the girls’ gymnasium died of pneumonia. As the year closes our country is facing a grave situation. In April we hung the national flag at the entrance to our halls for salute. Let us make that salute thoughtfully; let us pledge ourselves to virtue, to courage and to intelligence, so that we may contribute to making this land increasingly a democracy: a country of free and happy people, a country in which there shall exist right, reason and calm justice, all sciences and arts, healthy work and merry play. lj c