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THE CLIFTONIAN Clifton Springs Qrade and High School COMMENCEMENT NUMBER JUNE 1931 TO OUR CAPTAIN The members of The Cliftonian Staff dedicate this book to Mr. Williams who has been the Captain of the good ship C. S. H. S. for the past fourteen years. He has steered our ship over many a stormy sea but has always brought it into port safely. We wish him many years of happiness and contentment.
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2 THE CLIFTONIAN Salutatory: Our Quest In behalf of my classmates, I wish to welcome each of you this evening. We especially welcome our parents and friends, for the same interest which brings you here tonight was one of the main factors in helping us to achieve the successful accomplishment of our high school course. Members of the Board of Education, we are pleased to have you here with us this evening. We appreciate the support you have given us in our various enterprises. And teachers, without your kind and willing endeavor, we would not have reached this event, for we have needed many times to be guided by your wise counsels. We extend out welcome to our fellow students too. You have helped in many ways to make our school days pleasant. Classmates, we have at last reached this important event in our lives—our graduation. For years it has been a star on the horizon. At first it was dim, but as the years passed, it has grown brighter, and tonight it has reached its zenith. Now that we are about to leave school, we wonder why we came to school, and what we are expected to do after we leave. At first we came because it is customary for all children to enter school. Finally, we came to the place where we could leave school if we wanted to, but why didn’t we? We kept on because, unconsciously perhaps, we were searching for something. It was a vague sort of quest, a search for something indefinite, intangible. Now that we have completed our high school days, we stop to wonder just what it was we were searching for, and whether we have found it. As I took myself to task, I came to conclusion that our quest was for beauty—the beauty of knowledge, of truth, and of well living, the appreciation and understanding of the works of man and nature. Education enables us to see and appreciate beauty. By studying the different types of beauty we come to know each better, and to enjoy each more. The beauties of nature are perhaps the best known and the most enjoyed. The lovely out-of-doors is free for everyone to enjoy. After we have studied nature we find the flowers, the trees, the birds, more wonderful and more beautiful. Until one has studied nature, he cannot fully appreciate it, for everyday he learns more wonderful things about it. Truly has the poet said, “One impulse from the vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.” In the same manner, through growing knowledge and experience, we arc beginning to appreciate the beauty of human relationship. Perhaps we realize it more tonight than at any other time in our lives—tonight when we are about to discontinue an organization which has meant so much to us in friendship. Personalities have made their marks in the world. From acquaintance with the great personalities of literature and history, we too, we hope, have grown stronger and more beautiful in character. The beauty of accomplishment and well doing to others has been exemplified to us in the persons of Jacob Riis, of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, of Florence Nightingale, and of Dr. Henry Foster. We have experienced through books the joy and the satisfaction that comes through making the world a better place in which to live. With Dr. Grenfell and Florence Nightingale we experience the beauty of helping those in distress. We know that personalities develop with beauty and become great in character and accomplishment through unselfish human relationships. We appreciate, I believe,
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