Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-14
Interesting Items From
The Americas Schools
THE HIGH SCHOOL

| president or tneSe states, Wnen every
body viii lbe satisfied If some fellow
had been brave enough, back yonder in
december, to have told a senior that
graduation time would bring its sor-
row, the only result would have been
a wallcping for the one who said re-
grets would be in order. But when
graduation really comes it does bring
its sorrows. 1t brought tears to many
OF the seniors eyes, when they left
the Americas High school Friday
When God Be With You Till We Meet
Again" was played, then the thought
of leaving our Hi become foremost.
In the four years the class has been
III the school it has learned to love
the Americas High school and to re-
spect it's traditions. They have learn
ed to love the faculty who have al
ways been so patient in moments of
trial, and they have batled to defend
the colors of the institution-the
colors of White and Blue, which have
so often foated over triumphant
teams. But life is full of meetings
and it is also full of sorrows. The
gladness comes in the meeting, and
sadness must enter when the partings
are due.
This parting from our Alma Mater
is necessarily one of profound re-
gret-regret because we fear there
have been times when the high ideals
CT the school were forgotten, sad be-
cause we love the name of Americas
Hand sad because we love those
teachers who have so often led us to
the light, when the gloom was so
thick
The school and it's surroundings
have made a tremendous impression
upon our youthful minds-so fixed
have they become that, in later years,
when the race of life is nearly run,
when those who were members of the
Class of '16 are about to enter the
Gates of the Unknown, memory will
cause us to turn the pages of fancy
/ and dwell once more in those halcyon
days of '16, when the cares of life
were but promises of that which was
in store. Then will we recall the
! friendships, the schoolmates, and in
retrospect will we picture those happy
days
This Glass of '16 is the largest in
the history of the school, numbering
ffty-six In this number are students
who have won the highest honors
within the province of school life They
have seemed actuated in their efforts
by a deep love for their school, and
success has invariably followed. With
in the time this class has been in the
Americus High school, one state cham
pionship football team has been pro
duced, and numbered on it's roll are
students who have won success in all
| phases of school endeavor. The
champion declaimer of the Third Dis
trict is member of the class--like.
wise, the best pianist in the High
schools of this district, is a member of
the Glass of 16. These and others
have made the Americas High school
the great institution it is. Throughout
the course they have striven to place
their beloved school on the highest
pedestal, and those who follow them
will strive to keep it there Their eff
forts have always been directed toward
improving the school, and in thei,
work they have given the public an
annual that will rank with the best
in the colleges of the South; they have
spread the fame Of the Americas
schools to all corners of the state; and
they have given the students of the
school an example worthy any to fol-
low. And through it al, never has
there entered selfish motives. Selfish
Only in the fact that they deprived
other schools of honors, that they
might be added to the glory of the