Highland High School - Highlander Yearbook (Ault, CO)

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east Serif- ISL BACCALAUREATE-COMMENCEMENT HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL AULT, COLORADO May 18, 1973 Processional. Pomp and Circumstance ..... .... E lgar Highland High School Band Invocation .................... The Reverend Henry Baker First United Methodist Church, Ft. Collins ss as Ave Verum ................................... Mozart Highland M ixed Chorus ADDRESS Why Search for Happiness? Create it!', The Reverend Henry Baker A Star Robert Frost ................. Randall Thompson Highland High Mixed Chorus ADDRESS Songs of Separationi' ..................... Mr. Earl Reum Denver Public Schools Scholastic Awards and Presentation of Senior Class ................ Mr. Keith Neal Principal, Highland High School Awarding of Diplomas ................ Mr. Dennis Stuehm President, Board of Education supt. of sciifioils, weld Re:9 Mr. R. E. Gieck Benediction .. ............... The Reverend Henry Baker Recessional .. .......... March from Die Meistersinger Highland High School Band Richard Wagner . 5 see iw 51.1, t fa: 2 2 X t . . st e t R 9 L wi -1 ii A tmafg 358 Lis, S Q 2 Rs X 'fi Ei w: P O fl -ti.-is fsf iiii w , - , ts -I f ,. ,, :.:,g:gasa:,fs5-,g-5-: :wffshp-,ft f , ' -1 - a. 94v'b? iKrt,?3s :MGE ' I wx 1 lies, K .4 w :Egg 2 sfliiiihs N? 'Qs X Q, t ef 42 A- q aaiglfitl t a t .. A-A -A- Y T ig K it XX T , tt , W Ee, , i re l Atm,-I-.,,sg:ff:,,ffs.ae in--'1:::t,::. . as...-it .S-,.. . it Q The Reverend Henry Baker: This program intrigues me a great deal- a combination of Baccalaureate and Commencement exercises. The theme for this message actually comes from a little bit ofadvice by Dear Abby. One morning not long ago, I was glancing through this particular section, and some woman was telling about her search for happiness. She had never quite found the happiness that she sought. Abby's advice is the words of our theme this evening, Why search for happiness, Create it! After all, you are here in search for happiness. We say we are LOOKING for happinessg but, really, we can CREATE our own happiness out of making the kind oflives we have the potential to create with all the help that is available to us these days. Robert Frost wrote a poem entitled, The Mountain. In this poem is a story of a beautiful mountain that dominates the landscape such as Long's Peak yonder. The people around the foot of this mountain saw it everyday and took it pretty much for granted. But a stranger who came to this valley was thrilled by that mountain and asked a villager, I'd like very much to climb that mountaing how shall I climb it? ls there a path that goes to the top, and what will I see when I get there? This was his reply, I have always meant to go and look for myself, but you know how it is, it doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain you work- ed around the foot ofall your life. That says to me that too many times we take things that are right at home too much for granted. There is a story of an elderly woman who was flying in a plane for the first time from San Francisco to New York. After they were airborne, the voice ofthe pilot came over the intercom and told them what their destination would be, etc. There was something comforting and reassur- ing about his voice so she settled down and her anxiety disappeared. Well, about 30 minutes out of San Francisco, he announced, I don't want to disturb you, but we will be about 30 minutes late coming in to Kennedy Fieldg engine Number 4 has konked out and will slow us up a little bit. These announcements occurred at intervals for engines number 3 and number 2. About this time, this was as much as the little lady could takeg and she said, Good Heavens! It is our luck that engine number l will konk out and leave us up here all day. Wejust don't really understand how dependent we are on one another. Happiness can be created out of what we are and what we can become. Sometimes, we create happiness for ourselves and others out of what, in the eyes of some, may be unlikely materials and in some unlikely places. It will depend on your awareness to involve your life in the lives of others wherever there is human needg and when you identify your life with human needs, then you have heard the call of God. That call is clear and is ringing in our time. REMEMBER: Happiness CAN be created! i

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Mr. Earl Reum: Teachers, administrative staff, bus drivers, luncheon ladies, and custodial staff, moms and dads, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies of the graduates of'73, and anybody else who wandered in here thinking it is a pre-season game. It's a frightening thing to talk on a football field. It takes me back when l was a sophomore in college. Papers had been drawn up that said that none of us could weigh more than l25 lbs.-wouldn't you say, this is a fairly scrawny team? We had one kid that weighed l25 lbs. with his uniform on. The shoulder pads kept sliding down, pinning his arms to his body, and if it weren't for his Adam's apple, he wouldn't have had any shape at all. I remember he lost the toss for us, and the sophomores were elected to kick off. Here we were down at the end of the field, l looked down at the line of people, and they all had their eyes shut, contrary to the supreme court decision, I think they were all praying- Lord, please don't let them kick the ball to me. And then he snaps the ball and something happened-he started running for the sophomores, and then he saw them running toward him so he ran back where the rest of us were hiding. He ran straight for me with that stupid ball, holding it with both hands, and he shoved it at me and in that funny Richmond, Virginia, accent, he shouted, Fo' Heaven's sake do somethin' with it! . . . And then you discover a secret-on the l8th of May, 1973, at Highland High School, hopefully before any ofthe bugs got to maturity, we had a commencement. And commencement was hooked up to Bac- calaureate. . . . All of us wish you the most warm congratulations. Let me give you a simple letter C - congratulations, it is the word Commencement which means BEGIN. . . . A couple ofweeks ago, we were watching you and you were a little bitty kid, you were bald, you didn't have any teeth and we weren't really sure we wanted to keep you and all of a sudden-here you are. You've become a young lady. It's funny what we think about. Every mom and day knows something funny you've done. fthe story and experiences of the Belly Button -the experience with the hot air in a Biffy -J . . . We would like to give you a mink stole or a Cadillac convertable, and instead, we give you underwear and socks. It's the thing that we say, that you only go around once, and it's rather important that THAT once be absolutely the very best in the world. . . . People who need people are the luckiest people in the world .... I tell you, 1 carry a glass eye in my pocket and that's a ghastly thing. Ifyou make change in a restaurant, and the waitress sees it, why she'll generally say something like-E-h-r-kl I taught eighth grade, and Susie Wilcox sat right here-she had Sl233 worth of braces. She wrote once in an essay that she was afraid of going out in the rain, 'cause she thought the lightning would strike and it would weld her mouth shut. One Friday I said, What do you guys want to write about, and she said, Let's write about love. One of those kids wrote LOVE IS DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE FOR ANOTHER PERSON, so he can have a chance to become the greatest human being that God has created. fWhich is not bad for an eighth graderj -probably was stolen from the Reader's Digest. . . . And tonight, our graduates-maybe because they are born free, which is what this song is sort ofindicating ton the tape recorder during the speechj. There may be in the 51 graduates, somebody who writes the best songs, gives the best speech . . . discovers the secret to . . . So freedom is sort of hard to talk about because it is also a matter of education. tThe guitar string that must be fastened at both ends and then TUNED so it can be what a guitar string is capable of beingj It's not freedom FROM, it's freedom FOR, and freedom FOR is what freedom might make a difference about. . . . QThe story illustrated with 3 ropes made into one to show that freedom means that one is hooked up to all resources, and it becomes equal to any standards that anybody wants to bring upj. . . . We're going to read some first, middle, and last names tonight. Nobody knew what they were until just lately, and I hope you kids will forgive us, but at the time you were born, we thought they sounded pret- ty good. Then all of a sudden you're going to have put into your hand something that has never existed before in the world's history and you're related to 5l other kids and graduates who are very serious people. The reason is, because if you smile the tassel blows in your mouth and gets tied up with your bubble gum and gives you a terrible problem. You're serious for another reason-a lot of us have on brand new shoes and they hurt like thunder, and if you turn your head real fast you give a whiplash to the kid next to you and might blind him-so it is a serious time. Suddenly you think of Brian's song or Susan's song, and the relationship with other guys and other gals. lt's a terribly important time because we're together, really, for the last time. We're together in a very noble sense and we're together to celebrate something that's happening to our world. HN ' Q -