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Salulalafuf FACING TOMORROW TODAY Our high school days have now faded into the past and have become one of our fondest memories. We are leaving the halls of Angola High School, perhaps with a shadow of uncertainty hanging over us, and entering the halls of the world. It is a world, we know, that is full of responsibility but we, as a graduating class, can shoulder the responsibilities which will fall upon us. Our past twelve years in school have been for the purpose of educating us to meet these trials. Today marks the beginning of a new life for us. We have had our basic training, much as our service men received their basic training, and we are now ready for the actual fight through the years. I do not speak of fighting in terms of warfare, but merely as the initiative to get out and defend our ideals, our rights and freedoms, and above all, to protect our incomparable system of government from communistic practices which are threatening it this day. The future will rely upon us. The horizons of tomorrow are limited only by human imagination. Science, with its many brilliant discoveries, can mean a bright future or it can mean a dim future full of destruction and despair. We must learn to use these dis- coveries for the good of mankind. Never before in history has there been an age of greater convenience and opportunity than at the presentg and it is for us to recognize these opportunities and take advantage of them when they come. We have learned in our everyday tasks the significance and importance of brother- hood. As a country that has emerged from war and as a witness to the many cruelties of it, we know that we must offer our services and help in the readjustment of the for- eign countries that were actually in it and receivedlthe ravages of it. The food and clothing We sent overseas were gratefully received and have improved our relations with many countries. This was brotherhood and it is helping us in the job of getting the world back on its feet. The job has just been started and remains for us to finish. Truly brotherhood is not a theory but a necessity. We are living in a world much different from that of ancient times or even from that of 1900. In the world of yesterday man thought of another country as a far off place reached only through many days of travel and the countries were wholly inde- pendent of one another. Today the circumstances are vastly changed. It is necessary that we learn to cooperate not as individuals, not as communities or states, but as na- tions. Only in this way can we obtain world peace. Pertaining to this thought, as carried through the four years of high school by our class is our motto which states: United we stand, divided we fall! -NANCY SUTTON Page Twenty nzne
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Ualecfiaimq BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE On the first day of high school each member of the Class of 1950 began to make a permanent record for himself. This record may now decide his fate when he applies for his first job, or it may determine whether or not he will be allowed to enter the college of his choice. It may be the opening wedge to his financial or vocational suc- cess, or it may prove to be a source of embarrassment and hindrance to his progress. All of the great things of the world had to be born in a vision before they achieved reality. The architect who would build a great skyscraper must have a vision of the completed building before he can go to work. So we too, in building for the future, must have a vision that we can follow. We may dream of Painting a picture, of becoming a teacher or a famous musician. But whatever our aim in life, we must see it as a whole before we can start out to make it a reality. Once we have beheld the vision of our lives as we wish them to be, we can outline each definite step as it must be taken. Without this definite aim in life it is easy to see what wasted effort each day would be. Like a boat which has no set course, we should go around in circles using up our energy but getting nowhere. Whether or not we have derived all the advantages possible from the courses We have just finished is a matter between ourselves and our own consciences. Up to this time our work has been directed and made as easy and beneficial as trained minds could make it. From now on we must rely more and more upon our own efforts. The good We derive from college work will depend entirely upon us. The success we make of our life careers will likewise be due to our own initiative. What that new life is to be depends largely upon the foundation that we have been building for it here in Angola High School. On graduation day many boys and girls think back over their high school careers and Wonder why they did not use their time more wisely and win the award or the honor that was given to some class- mate who was no more capable than they. But it is far better to look ahead with a purpose than to look back with regret. It seems strange that we should use the word commencement to designate the day on which we lay down for all time the school work we have carried for so many years. Completion would seem to be a more appropriate term. But that would not be life, for in this world everything that marks an end also marks a beginning. The end of one day is the commencement of another, the end of one task, the beginning of a new one. The tree blossoms, bears fruit, sheds its foliage, and immediately begins preparation for another crop. So it is with our education. What we have learned at school, valuable as it is, is only a beginning. The end of our school work merely means the commencement of those experiences which will put to the test the principles we have learned in building for the future. -MERRILL GERMAN Page Twenty eight
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