Britton Macon High School - Brittonian Yearbook (Britton, MI)

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SALUTATORY - WILL OUR JOB BE AN EASY ONE? By Norma Spreeman Teachers, parents, and friends. We the class of 1949, welcome you to our grad- uation exercises tonight. As we stand here tonight in preparation to receive our graduation diplomas we realize that without your care and guidance, we would not be where we are. We are truly grateful for these services. During the past years of our lives, we have been al- most totally dependent upon you for our livelihood and advancement. Now we have reached the point where we must share a much greater portion of that responsibility. We hope we shall be able to do so in a manner which you shall be proud of. lt will be our job to live and act like human beings. That may sound as if it is a very sirnple task, but it is not. lf it is so sirnple, why is it we have so many nations and people in the world today who are not living as human beings but instead more as inhumans ? Many texts, articles, and theories have been expounded in an attempt to explain why Human beings act as they do. Perhaps more time should be spent to explain why we act as inhumans. In 1927 we appeared to be quite hurnan when we entered into the Kellogg Pact along with many other nations agreeing to outlaw war and establish permanent world- wide peace but as we all know we have had two world wars since then and the end is not yet in sight. ln the midst of this present change from peace to war, we have abandoned the religious and educational conventions of 40 centuries ago and have only tried to get more for ourselves. When we act that way we are not human beings at all but like the animal who has enough but is continually trying to get more. We all do this without sometimes realizing it. This inhumanism can also apply to countries. For when they are fighting in war they are only trying to get more for themselves. Each country is like an animal trying to reign above the others. You have all probably heard the saying about the cow that would rather eat the grass on the other side of the fence even though she has enough on her side. All of us are like that, we are never satisfied with what we have. So the current question should not be why we behave as humans, but why are we so inhuman. From this discussion of present human behavior, you can see that our job of acting as human beings, as the true meaning of the word implies, is not an easy one. It proves to be a difficult job to act as a hurnan in the midst of inhumans. Many of you here obtain your living from the soil. You are familiar with the laws and ways of nature. You know that it is a difficult job for a stalk of corn or sprigs of wheat to grow and survive in a field of weeds. So it is in life. We all must realize that it is a much more difficult job for a truly useful person to grow and thrive in a society of weeds than it is to survive in a well cultivated society. lt is our hope that we the members of this class of 1949 will be strong enough in our morals and standards of conduct to survive and thrive as a strong pillar of justice and good in the present field of weeds, 18

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BACK: MIDDLE: FRONT: - ggfwzu A -f- HQEQQ-'1 V f C. Scott, M. Baker I. Craig, B. Brown, D. Grady, J. Hintz, W. Purple, D. Ball J. Forgacs, J. Kujawa, C. Barrett. . Umors D. Steuwe, H. Auten, R. Croll, R. Moore, T. 'Judklnl, W. Gilmore, Q. Barrett, Mr. Piche. , M. Arizpe, M. Lewis, G. Kimerer, A. Priellpp, O. Croll, G. Kimerer, N. Schott, J. Van Valkenburg, B. Studnicka, M. Downing. or i . 5 . Q V ji 5 . ir ws BACK: E. Cqrothers, F. Prichard, D. Bush, R. Ayrton, J. Shiels, D. Hannah, A. Moore, Mrs . Beaubien. FRONT: L. Purple, V. Craig, D. Wonderly, M. Prill, F. Schroeder, P. Frost. 2.0