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Rose Mary Leonard GOLDEN MOMENTS SALUTATORY ADDRESS
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WE, the Class of 193 5, extend to you, our parents, the Superintendent of Schools, Members of the School Committee, teachers, and friends, a hearty and cordial welcome. To express our welcome in words is difficult, for they alone can never convey all that our hearts would say. On this glad day, however, we are pleased that we can share with you our happiness and joy. Let us discuss to-day a subject of great importance, not only to the graduating class, but to you, our guests. The topic is Golden Moments, or leisure time. In former years the laborer worked from sunrise to sunset. He was not granted sufficient leisure to develop his faculties, either intellectually or morally. To-day, because of governmental regulations, we face a condition in which there is more leisure for each individual in our community — in fact, often more leisure time than he can adequately handle. We, who are graduating to-day and who will, sooner or later, be among the vast number of workers in this busy world, must face this problem squarely. Are we going to waste this time in sheer idleness, or are we going to employ this new leisure in such ways as to re-animate us, to cultivate our minds, and to expand our lives in many untrodden paths? Is it not reasonable to expect that we should be frugal with this time, and not let it slip from us without some equivalent? If we endeavor to profit by these precious moments it does not necessarily mean hard labor; it means, rather, pleasant recreation. Let us now resolve never to waste our time, but to turn our leisure moments into golden opportunities. To-day we shall review only a few of these opportunities awaiting us. Reading affords a pleasant as well as an educational pastime. Those of us who do not have a home library will find a well-equipped town library which offers us many golden privileges, for on its shelves are many friends waiting to make our acquaintance. There stand our silent comrades; let us choose our friends wisely and together slip away into dreamland. Books preserve the personalities of the great heroes of all time — scientists, inventors, statesmen, and writers. So vivid is the characterization of our heroes that for the time being the reader can imagine himself searching diligently with Madame Curie in her laboratory as she works on the radium cure for cancer, or even scanning the heavens for new planets with the famed astronomer, William Herschel. Perhaps, through our acquaintance with such sterling characters, we might broaden our life interests and elevate our ideals in a way which cannot be accomplished by any other means. Certainly the world never needed diversion of the right sort more than it does to-day. Novels of all types, whether historical, realistic, or romantic, furnish us with stories that divert our attention, and show us how others deal with problems which we ourselves may have to face. The longing to wander in strange and beautiful countries has come in a greater or less degree to each of us. Ties of home, financial difficulties, our daily routine, prevent many of our dreams from becoming realities. [ H ]
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