Brodhead High School - Red B Yearbook (Brodhead, WI)

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Baseball Brodhead's 1954 baseball team opened its season with an 11-1 vic- tory over Albany. Jerry Christensen did effective pitching and Duane Lederman led the hitters with two hits in as many tries. The following boys were in the starting line-up. UD indicates returning lettermen. Catcher-Dick Badertscher Pitcher-Jerry Christensen' First Base-Duane Lederman' Second Base-Ned Myers Third Base-Art Roderick' Short Stop-Bob Taylor' Left Field-John Burkhamer Center Field-Francis Brown' Right Field-Allen Williams' Others who reported were Charles Marsh, Bob Matzke, Leon Per- kins, Bill Robichaux, Marvin Wolf, Lewis Wheeler, Sidney Wheeler, Jon Sveom, Dick-Lunde, Frank Steiner, Paul Weibel. BASEBALL SCHEDULE April 8-At Albany. April 14-At Orfordville. April 20-Juda. April 26-Belleville. May 3-Brooklyn. May 10-At Albany. X

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Th F A CHALLENGE 6 L1'C1l1'e--To AMERICAN YOUTH THE GOAL OF OUR FOUNDERS VALEDICTORY Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. These were Lincoln's words at Gettysburg in 1863. And now less than two hundred years later, we, an energetic, resourceful people, working together in a free economy and guided by a government of our own choosing, have built that new nation into the American way of life . . . a life which to me is themost outstanding of mankind. When the many great men, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and others, founded this country, what was their goal? Do you know? They had many ideas in mind, from their ideas developed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the framework of our government. It is more, however, than the framework. It is the complete construction or building which guar- antees to every citizen his intrinsic right of freedom. In this construc- tion are embodied three fundamental concepts: ill That government be based on law and not on arbitrary will. Our government is based on laws which have been made honestly, for the good of the people. They are not the result of little thought, but of much reasoning, and are binding on everyone--Congress, the President, lawmakers, the courts, and general citizens alike. C25 That government must rest on the con- sent of the governed. One problem that faced our founders was a way in which they could develop a national state Without crushing the in- dividual beneath its power. This was solved by setting up local, state, and national governments. A person can decide about those questions concerning himself. The people in a community decide about local af- fairs, the communities about state matters, and the states in turn, help the national government. C35 That government must respect and pre- serve the rights of the individual. This fact is self explanatory. We know that our rights are guaranteed to us in our Constitution. Govern- ment should help where necessary but should not make moral cripples out of individuals by doing for them what they should be doing for themselves. In order to execute a government founded onhthese principles, our founders had to mold the nation into the desired unique form. I'd like to compare it to the making of the hydrogen bomb or the atomic bomb since we are living in the the atomic age. I know nothing about how to make an atomic bomb, but I imagine first of all, the scientists had to de- velop a plan to follow-the mathematical, physical, or other funda- mental principles concerning its making. Our founders too developed a plan-the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. ' Next, the scientist had to obtain the needed elements and combine them in the exact amount. Our founders had little difficulty in carrying out this step. The people were already available, but they had to be united. They did their utmost then to unite the people through com- promises to solve the difficulties, through representatives to speak for the people, and through speeches, books, and articles to convince the people that unity was necessary.