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SUPERINTENDENT'S MESSAGE Let me begin this message to you graduates of 1957 by asking What value do you place on the education you have attained this far? If we think about this in terms of what we have put into it, we can probably break it down into costs in dollars and cents and time and effort in concentration and study. We are all ready to acknowledge that our parents have had to spend a great deal of money and have had to make untold sacrifices so that we could have the clothes, books, and all the other materials necessary to the process of our education, We have to spend many hours reading, studying, doing assignments and discussing ideas in the classroom and out on our own initiative. We exert all of this effort to achieve an education, Why? We must consider an education a pretty important thing to warrant all of this work and money. Why is an education so important to us? Diogenes once said, The future of our nation depends upon education. With the changing world I think we would have to add that not only our nation but the future of the entire world depends on education. There are always people in the world who will point their fingers at our democratic way of life and say it will not work , but we believe that it will work as long as we have an educated people. It is far more important for a nation that has a government where the people rule themselves to be educated than it would be for a totalitarian form of government where the masses have little or nothing to say about how they will be ruled. In order for us to take our places as citizens in a country such as ours we must know something about our liberties, freedoms, and responsibilities as American citizens. We must also become acquainted with the origin of our way of life and the development of our democratic ideals since the pilgrims first landed on our shores. By making this kind of study we will discover that all of the freedom that we enjoy today did not come easy and without tremendous sacrifices and we can assume that we will not keep it unless we sustain the high value that we place on education and an informed citizenry. We cannot expect to enjoy peace, we cannot expect to attain a common understanding of all of the peoples of the world, we cannot hope to have progress in our own country without a sound plan of education for all of our citizens. You observed a presidential election in your senior year where the people themselves, your mothers and fathers, went to the polls and exercised one of their rights as well as a responsibility. By the time we have another presidential election, you too will be old enough to share the privilege of voting and to assume the responsibility that goes along with it. Not only do we have the responsibility for voting for the people whom we want to be our leaders but when we vote we must make sure that we know for what we are voting. Your class did a fine job of acting in the play American Passport , which reminds us that we cannot just take our freedoms as Americans for granted. We must be vigilant and we must be ready and proud to carry the banner which exemplifies our love for freedom. We all have the right to speak freely, to worship freely, to choose our work freely, to select our political leaders freely, but these rights carry with them the obligation to speak, to wor- ship, to choose and to select wisely. The wisdom to fulfill these obligations is enhanced by knowledge and learning and understanding that results from our education. Roland M. Rockwell 3 i V
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im- 1 't.'?.5 .f.'.f.??i.. f' 'NC S. T fini was 4 5 5 7 S 9 'ol PRINClPAL'S MESSAGE Dear Seniors: Seniors at last! You have now reached the first plateau toward which every freshman strives and now that you have reached this height, you have probably found that is is looking backward rather than forward that makes one dizzy. The last four, short years have been most important to each of you in determining your life objectives and in settling the pattern of ideals and attitudes that will guide you. Some of you will now go on toward higher degrees of learning in our colleges and universities, while for some the days of formal schooling are ended. Whatever your future plans may be, the days you have spent in Brodhead High School will leave an indelible mark on all of your activities. This is a tense time in our world--the forces of democracy and the forces of communism seem to be perpetually snarled. Wars and rumors of wars are constantly threatening our way of life. Tension in all parts of the world seems to be increasing day by day as new acts of aggression are committed, new brutalities are reported and one crisis after another arises. It is in times like these that our country needs intelligent young men and women to help build a more secure and productive America. It is in times like these that opportunity in all fields knocks as it has never knocked before. It is times like these that you graduates take your place in life--to be the teachers, pastors, scientists, politicans and parents of the next generation. We hope your high school years have been of sufficient help in pre- paring you to meet this challenge. Congratulations and best wishes to each of you. Warren Selbo 4 L
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