Jackson County High School - Aiyukpa Yearbook (Walden, CO)

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AIYUKPA IQSO S a I u t a t o r y BIARY ANN QUINN Parents, Friends, Members of the School Board and Classmates: All of you can guess how happy we are to welcome you to the Fommence- ment exercises of the Class ot' 1950. It seems such a short time since we entered high school, such a short time in which to have grown to the stage where further growth will have to become a much more serious business. You've known all of us long before we entered high school, and you see us now on the threshold ot' becoming men and women. These four short years, happy years of play and work and growth, have been very important to all of us. There will probably never be another four years in any of our lives when we can develop so much, act so freely, sing and laugh so spontaneously, nor have the opportunity to learn so much, and yet do all of these things with having to feel that we have been completely harnessed. XVe'll surely have more serious restraints in the very near future. lt is you, patrons and parents, who have given us this opportunity for four free years of life, protected by your homes, and by the direct interests of all our neighbors. You must. have realized, without saying it, that these four years be- long to us, that for you they wouldn't and couldnlt come again. lt is only now that we are beginning to realize how serious it is for us, that soon we 'll be mak- ing nearly all of our own decisions, where before so many of them were made for us, that soon the responsibilities that were yours will belong to each of us for ourselves. Already some of these decisions that we are going to make are beginning to weigh heavily in our minds. Hut these last four years, these we thank you for. You know how prezious they were, how precious they will become to us as we grow older. You've come to see us pass from this stage to the unknown one ahead. NVe're happy you 've come, and as a class we thank you and welcome you here tonight. PAGI: 32

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AIYUKPA lQ5O Va l ed icto ry BoNN1'rA I Jownuu, Parents, Friends, Classmates, Members of the Board, and Faculty: My classmate, a short while ago, has told you of our appreciation for the four enjoyable years that will never come again. I'd like to spend a little thought on the years ahead. To this point we, as classmates, have travelled the roads of home with much company, supported by the fact that in groups we have strength and protection, and sheltered by the always accepted fact that we had home and village and a friendly, helpful county to gambol in. Now we find ourselves suddenly arriving at the end of a well trod street beyond which lie many untravelled trails, and we suddenly become pioneers and explorers of comparatively new territory to us, with so many unknown obstacles ahead, and with only an idea-and a guess-of a destination Somewhere.l' Many of us will seek further education and training for the business of making a living, and having received training, do we return home? By all means, we should, providing our future work was here. Unfortunately that cannot be the case for all of us, even though we realize that Jackson County has an investment in each of us. Some of us must seek elsewhere to find the position in which we will fit-our places-where the job and the man fit each other-and we feel sure you would not have it any other way. You, kind people of North Park, have given us a heritage more than any school can give-a heritage of independence, and the spirit and the price of each individual being himself-and acting for himself. In a world in which ene nation is becoming more and more dependent upon some other nation for rzustanance, in a nation where one group gives benefits and aids to sustain some other group,-the people and the natural resources of North Parkwthese have made us act freely, independently, and courageously to carry on the great traditions that have been-and still are-the foundations of a great America. That is the heritage that each of us treasure-and which gives us the fortitude -to seek our individual ways-with a feeling of equality, clear-eyed and un- afraid. Thank you. PAGE 31

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