Bedford High School - Talisman Yearbook (Temperance, MI)

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Parents Faculty Classmates and Fruends Tonught as our hugh school fades unto the background the days months and years become only a memory just a pleasant thought of the tume that we the graduates of l953 have spent to gether As they passed the turne went by seemungly purposeless Now as we look back ut has been but a fleetung moment over flowung wuth uoys and experuences that has guven us a well rounded educatuon Throughout our schoolung we have been taught to use our tume to the best possuble advantage Now as we leave our sheltered hugh school days we realuze more fully the meanung of tume Today may be the opportunuty and occasuon of our luves The success and completeness of our enture lufe may depend upon what we do or say today lt us for us therefore to use every moment of today as uf our very exustence were dependent on uts works and deeds Few of us realuze that thunkung and plannung systematucally are the greatest tume savung devuces known to man Many of us put off untul tomorrow what should be done today causung much useless squanderung of thus pruceless element ln a world fulled wuth chaos ut us necessary for one to be an untellugent uudge of the worthwhule thungs to whuch he devotes hus abulutues and talents Each one of us may not have the same vuews as to what these worthwhule thungs are as each person s preference us hus pruvulege ln every fueld or occupatuon the need for savung tume stull faces everyone We may not consuder tume to 'be such an umportant element but what can restore the moment that has passed the day whose sun has set or the year that has been num bered wuth the ages gone? Tume can never be reclaumed As has so ably been saud before Tume and tude waut for no man lt us therefore my earnest and contunual prayer that we may always remember these profound truths and so choose wusely and well the work and the play that wull best serve our needs May we always and ever use our tume both un the present and un the future un the very best way possuble for us as unduvuduals rememberung always and I quote Thus above all to thune own self be true and ut must follow as the nught the day Thou canst not then be false to any man Thank you Joanne VanKurk Valeductoruan I I' 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 - ' 1 1 ' 1 1 - 1 ' 1 , . ' 1 I I I - - 1 1 1 1 1 ' - - 11 - - A 11 , . 1 1 1 11 - - 1 1 11 1

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Parents Faculty Frlends Fellow Classmates As we leave one phase of our lnfetlme behmd us In the back of our mmds ns one thought to fund happmess through success Success comes In many dnfferent ways Emerson sand Nature arms each man wnth some faculty whnch enables hum to do easnly some feat :mpossnble to any other There Ines the basls of our success To some of us at may be dlsgunsed wnth more unpleasant things to others It may come abundantly and easily but each of us must strlve to attaln hns goal Up to thus tlme we have been a class-a group that was guuded through each faltermg step by the understandmg and wlsdom of those around us As a group we have undertaken many thlngs relymg on the perseverance of our teachers to help us overcome any obstacles whlch mnght aruse Now as we graduate we are no longer a class Each has has own pattern to follow very different from that of the person next to hum We no longer strive as a group for somethlng we must each use has own mmd and mfluenced by the experience and good judgment of others we must make our own declslons We must learn to rely on ourselves as no one funds happiness and success through the efforts of someone else Each of us as responsible for his own llfe Until thus time we have been dependent on the and of many people and wlll continue to be but they cannot thunk for us work for us or decide for us No our success depends on the cholces we make We must try to help others make their cholces as teamwork as essentual for every success We must mstull unto ourselves the confndence and fanth to look ahead We must go forward with a wlll strong and unflnnchlng as every great task ns done at the cost of great effort so too the great task of bulldmg our Ilves must be done wlth great effort Let us consnder lnfe as a long road that lles ahead of us Now the basic structure of thus road has been buult for us As we leave hugh school each one of us wall attempt ln hls own way to fmlsh thus road Our dreams hopes and :deals are the pattern for nts completuon As we fulflll these desures the magnstude of our road wull progress lt wnll broaden ID comparuson to our standards and the contmuuty of our wull to always ablde by them lt IS my utmost deslre that each one m the graduating class of l953 wnll be given the strength knowledge and wnsdom to steadfastly undertake thus task and that each wnll gam hns happmess and success and be worthy of the prlvnlege of belng one of the leaders of tomorrow Thank you Juomta Graber Valedlctorlan I 1 1 1 1 . . . ,, ' 1 . . 1, . . 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 I I , . 1 1 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 - - - 11 II 1

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,- Parents Faculty Classmates and Frlends As we the members of the graduating class of l953 stand on the threshold of llfe wautnng for the door to open we glance only briefly over our shoulder at the paths that lead to the doorway we have lust reached At flrst our way was narrow and we were sheltered by the care and love of our parents but as our llves proceeded our paths wldened and others loaned our mothers and fathers to help them patiently teach and carefullv guude us Theur long vngnl comes to a close tonught they have completed theur job As we emerge from the mold that portnon of our lufe as concluded another ns only begun We have now only to look ahead As we the graduates change from one to many and each chooses a dlfferent road to follow-a few of us wall go on to hngher educatuon some will enter the armed forces and a large percentage wlll nmmeduately seek a posntuon nn the career whnch they have chosen We wull fund that we wull encounter dufferent problems but our hurdles wall be the same henght and our success nn surmountmg them of the same :mportance to each of us Each path at thus tnme becomes narrow and wlndung once agaun as It was tn our chnldhood But thus path wnll not wnden unaided we must widen and straighten It by worknng hard and ever strlvung to fulfill new and hngher goals We do not wlsh to say good bye to our parents and teachers to nught as the thnngs they have taught us will continue to llve and flourlsh un our deeds and words Rather we wash to say Thank you Thank you from the depths of our hearts But as we are regretfully sayung farewell to the carefree days of hugh school we are greetung the world wlth a smile on our lnps determlnatlon un our minds and fanth ln our hearts lt would be futule to say farewell all that we ve known here really we re taklng It wnth us chernsh for many a year In molding our future horizons Your counsel wull and an the strife And the frlendshnps we formed and nurtured Wnll brlng contentment nn later llfe So It s not Farewell we are saymg As we venture Into the New Parents and teachers and friends We very suncerely say Thank you Beverly Halls Valecluctorlan I 1 1 1 I I I I I I I l I I I . I 1 . 1 1 - , 1 1 1 I I I I I I I I I . . . ,, . , . II ' II II I I , . To ' I AS , . . . 1 I ' I II II ' I I - ll ll I .