West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 N Z }c JWemorial lit a stuhent or teacher ml»o mas present on 3frihay, JFrbruary ninc-teentli, toil I soon forget the Jolpt Paul llihelhaffcr Jflemorial seruices mhich lucre liclh in the Auhitorium on tljat hay. (the memorial in honor of Joltn paul jUilielhaffer, a schoolmate, mho mas killeh in a sah accident on the football field in the fall of 1913, mas presented by the January Senior (Class of 1 914 to West Ifiigh School. 311 is a figure of a fine Athenian youth, carrying the symbols mhich typify both the scholar and the athlete. (Those mlio conducted the seruices presented in them the beautiful spirit of unselfishness, manliness, and purity of life mhich mas symbolic of Paul’s character. Jttany of us knem Paul -Uiheldaffer personally, and to those, no testimonial mas needed, hut to those of us mho did not knom him, in these seruices mas giuen the consciousness of his fine life and character an!) the knomledge that, “3ht sluirt measures life may perfect he.” I I i 1 -5 — I