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Seniors,
This is your Commencement. The word has more meaning for you than simply a name for a ceremony indicating you have completed your high school course. Commencement is your beginning as a mature citizen. All of you should continue your studies, not just for another course such as college or technical school, but for the real business of life.
In this regard you should set your goals now. You may change whatever goal you set for yourself later, but start out for some certain objective. Select this objective thoughtfully-choose your associates wisely-develop your attitudes conscientiously-but above all, plan for something wholeheartedly.
Follow up your decision with a cultivated courage. Courage to tackle a job and stick to it until it is finished; courage to be different and diligent; courage to go ahead in the face of defeat and discouragement; such courage you can acquire. To acquire this courage watch for opportunities and associate with successful people; they have had to be courageous.
The world today, and every day, wants young people who learn the facts, who know what it's all about. It is your duty to yourself and our Country to continue to study on your job. You must become the man who knows in your particular business. To do this you must continually study new approaches and new methods for the solution of your problems.
There is much of value in experience, but experience is expensive to acquire. All of us must do many things without pay in order to gain experience. Look for opportunities that will, in the doing, provide experience for a more important job.
There is no substitute for the learning other than that received by the responsibility for the actual accomplishment of a completed task. We may study all the facets of a procedure we may read all the books and articles on how to do something-but the real know how is found only by the actual experience of doing the job.
Many years B. C., Sophocles said, "One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty unless you try".
And so at this the beginning of your adult experience think on a mature level. Accept responsibilities so you can gain good experience and always be thinking ahead for;
"As a man thinketh, so is he".
With very best wishes for your success,Sincerely
Norman W. Kratz
Dear Seniors:
As graduates from your senior high school, you pass into a
commencement. A commencement of what?
First, it is my fondest hope that you will begin to blend your
respective souls with your intellects and thus reach maturity as soon as possible. For
some, this will be a long process.
Second, that you will dedicate yourselves to the maintenance of freedom
and liberty so that you will forever manifest an aspiration to do and to think for
yourselves.
Third, that you will refuse to worship security as though it were a god
or to spend your life depending upon others.
Fourth, that should you go to college you will regard a college
education as only one factor contributing to your total education.
Fifth, that should you not go to college, you should never regard your
lack of college training as an excuse for becoming a second-rate citizen.
Sixth, that you develop your attitudes concerning human problems in a
conscientious manner through thought rather than through emotion.
Seventh, that if you lacked courage to be different, determined and
diligent, you may still be capable of cultivating such courage.
Eighth, that your selection of plans and associates will be carried out
wholeheartedly and wisely.
Ninth, that you will always remember that every man is his own most
important teacher.
Tenth, that life gives the final examinations always, and that no
deception is possible. Like the candid camera, life rarely gives one time to pose before
the picture is taken.
Eleventh, that the best and most loyal friends you will ever find may
be books. Each of you should find it possible to have at least a five-foot shelf of those
writings which provide you with the simplest answers or steadiest consolations. May I
recommend the Bible as belonging on each shelf?
Twelfth, that the greatest asset you will ever display is the dignified
manner in which you treat your fellow-men. Your ability to treat other men with respect,
the highest to be placed upon any man, will give you more satisfaction in life than any
other trait.
Thirteenth, that since the world is crying for leadership blessed with
integrity, you should make an effort to become such leaders.
Fourteenth, that there are no short-cuts to success. Industry and
diligence will always pay dividends gaining in success.
Finally, that when an individual is directed and controlled by any
collective unit he is thereby enslaved and will never be able to cross a new
frontier.
Sincerely,
Lewis V. Kost
Dear Seniors:
Graduation is always a time for congratulations and best wishes because
it represents the attainment of one's goal. To some people it means the passing of
sufficient subjects to amass one hundred forty credits, the requirement for a longed-for
diploma. To other pupils it represents a long time of hard work in studying and learning
in order to be better trained for the occupational world. Other pupils believe that
graduation means building a background in order to take another step in the educational
ladder. The goal usually makes a vast difference.
What your heart is set upon usually guides your life. One who is
content with little success will usually get little joy from whatever he is doing. These
people are the ones who find fault with everything in the high school and in life, and
they fail to make it a better world than it was when first they entered. The seniors who
have really worked and have set high goals have improved this school and in so doing they
have really gained much for themselves that can never be taken away. They have gained the
idea that each day is valuable in one's life-that each day is a building or preparation
for the next day in learning, in character and in maturity.
Recently I read a book that illustrates this point far better than I
can explain. It was discussing the value of a person. It pointed out that a casting of
iron as it comes from the smelting furnace would be worth $5.00 but if it is made into
horseshoes, it is worth $10.50. When this metal is refined and tempered and shaped into
needles, it is worth $3,500, but if it has been fashioned into balance springs for
watches, it is worth $25,000. The same is true of people who are able and fit and
receptive to training and learning. Each one can be fashioned to be worth so much more.
Value or worth is not counted by dollars. Too long we have weighed
everything by dollars and cents. Your value is how you use your lives-in what pursuits, in
what contribution to your community, in your interests.
To each of you, my wishes for growth in spirit and in mind and good
luck.
Dorothy E. Berger
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