Minnehaha Academy - Antler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Miss Anna Fellroth Associate Principal Congratulations, class of 1962! You have faithfully followed the patterns laid out for you in order to earn your diploma. Be careful in choosing patterns for life. Don’t follow the pattern of the world. Shun its conforming snare. Dare to stand alone, if need be. Be different! Choose God’s pattern for life. Dare to say with Joshua, As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Who among you will proclaim with Paul, For me to live is Christ’? Be God’s person. Choose God’s pattern for YOU. Details differ. Some one else’s life of faith, though very strong, is not for you. A wonderful prayer like some one else’s is not yours. Salvation and spiritual growth are very personal and individual matters. Be yourself! God’s pattern for life is large enough to grow in. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. lie a growing individual! 26

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A Message from the President’s Desk Our loyol president cheer us on, whether in Our friendly president i» intere»ted in every phase victory or defeat. of school life. Greetings to the class of 1962 . . . Within days yon will be gone from our midst and lx forced to fend for yourselves in a world that is alive with opportunity as well as peril. We are excited with you over the future that can be yours. Remember, as you leave us, that we will all lie hoping for your success in every noble endeavor to which you give yourself. Many people fail in life because they have no master-ambition, no dominating purpose that brings their lives into a meaningful wholeness. Some time ago, the editors of LIFE magazine quoted a Mr. Charles Brown, an advertising man, as saying that we are living in the great era of the goof-off, the age of the half-done job. Mr. Brown continued by observing that as a nation we have been “enjoying a stampede away from responsibility He further said that our nation is populated with students that take cinch courses because the hard ones make them think” After quoting this observer, the editors of LIFE while expressing general agreement, made a comment that is worthy of further application: The shorter the work day the more important the efficiency in it — to keep it short, and to keep us capable of coping with the undiminished hugeness of the unfinished work of the world. I beg of you to take hold of that phrase, The undiminished hugeness of the unfinished work of the world. You are now a part of that unfinished work of the world. The fatal flaw in a master-ambition that is worldly is simply the fact that it is self-centered and self-oriented and away from God and His eternal purpose. Expressions of such ambitions are to amass wealth for selfish reasons, to wield power for selfish gain or to build a reputation simply for self esteem. The real secret of a worthy ambition is its underlying motive. God's message to Baruch was Seekest thou great things for tluyseif, seek them not. In His sermon on the mount the Savior counselled, Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth The wrong lies not in the ambition itself, but in its inspiring motive. An intensely ambitious man himself, the Apostle Paul gives us three of his own ambitions. The first was to be well pleasing to Cod. The next was to be quiet — the quiet of an inner repose — and the third to preach the Gospel not where Christ was named. All of his ambitions found their center in Christ. And now my final word to you, this class of 1962, is found in Isaiah 40:30-31 Even youths shall faint and he weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. May I always be your friend and helper. C. CitAoiLoM 25

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Lawrence H. Bengtson Principal Congratulations Class of 1962 Four years have passed since you came to Minnehaha Academy as freshman. The moment you have been working for is at hand. You have finished your courses, the final exams have been taken, and your work has been evaluated. This evaluation is not necessarily a true one because the real evaluation of your four years experience is ahead of you. Often, as you are required to make choices, your sense of values will be measured. As you enroll in courses in college your academic preparation will be evaluated. When you must choose between the rights of less fortunate people and your own advantage, love of your fellowmen will be tested. This evaluation will go on — and as it does you will continue learning. It is your skills in learning that will lx; of great importance to you. As you leave these halls and go your various ways, may your learning lead to wisdom. May you not be merely clever — may you also be good in the finest sense of the word. To gain wisdom, may you recognize the starting point of tme wisdom as expressed by the writer of Proverbs, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”