Bedford High School - Talisman Yearbook (Temperance, MI)

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Parents Faculty Frnends and Fellow Classmates Tonrght nt as my pruvllege to welcome you to the seventh annual classnught program of Bedford Hugh School lt as a known fact that most of us do not apprecuate what we have untll we have to guve ut up For four years we have worked and played together here at Bedford for four years we have cheered our teams grumbled over long lessons rejoiced over short ones teased and pleased our teachers just as all the classes that came before have done and l suppose as all the classes comung after us wall do And now that the four years are over and we are ready to leave Bedford and although at IS mevltable that we be scattered each to pursue has own course the class of 53 wlll always be bound together nn splrnt But what lses ahead for us graduates? All of us here tonsght are on the threshold of a new lnfe and we again have to work ourselves up unto the rank In whnch we wnll be the happiest We are nothing but beginners nn the school of the world Just as a manufacturing plant turns out Its fmlshed products to be of use to the world so has thus school turned out nts products the graduating class of I953 We are the cutnzens of tomorrow the future leaders of thus country the ones who have to determnne between rlght and wrong What we have done and how we have done It durnng the past twelve years wall largely determine how we shall run our Infe nn the future Yes what Iles ahead for us graduates as a bug question and a question not easily answered Wnll the world be ready and wnllmg to be of and to us or wnll lt be ready to destroy our hopes and dreams? We are about to leave our sheltered and protected home llfe and to go out to work on the biggest job we wull ever have to tackle That job IS to keep thls country a democracy a free world free from persecutuon and dlctatorshnp We only hope and pray that we wall be successful so that when our work IS done here on earth we will be prnvuleged to hear the words of Saunt Paul Well done thou good and falthful servant Our teachers have played the leadung part ln our school llfe and not one of us could ever thank them enough for the way they have stayed by us helpnng us when we were discouraged The class of l953 can pomt with prnde to tts achuevements and now last but by all means not least the goal whlch for four years we have strrven to reach IS here graduatlon Commence ment rs nndeed appropruately named for It marks only the begun nmg of what IS to follow We must now say farewell to the past and bud welcome to the future and to what It holds for us Thank you Anna Wuemeyer Salutatorlan 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 ' I 1 . 1 . 1 1 ' 1 I ' 1 1 ' I 1 1 1 I I 1 . . . . 1, I I - 11 I , . I 1 I 1 I - I

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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 .

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AMMMLQ Meme Parents Faculty Classmates and Fruends Tonught brungs to a close four years of companuonshup team work and pleasure We the graduatung class of I953 step proudly forward as the tume has come for us to complete our hugh school educatuon and receuve our duplomas We have been to gether as hugh school students for four short years years whuch have brought many happy memorues and experuences to us They have taught us the use of uounung together as a team not only un athletucs but also un the many prouects whuch we have attempted and at whuch we have been successful We have struved to meet each duffuculty that we have encountered un a sportsmanluke man ner Our hugh school years have taught us the rught way to do We have each been told many tumes un these years the thungs that are rught and wrong and yet each of us has come to stumblung blocks that caused hesutatuon un our smooth goung way Each vuc tory or successful endeavor that we have accomplushed seems now un the past although those gauns are the very thungs on whuch we wull base our lufe lt us these days that get us off to the rught be gunnung and attempt to show us the best durectuon un whuch to proceed from here lt us you our teachers and parents to whom we must guve our real thanks Our words do not begun to express the way that we feel but speakung un behalf of the members of our class I would luke to say Your efforts are greatly apprecuated and wull always be a necessary part of our lufe ln the future we wull endeavor to luve up to these thungs that we have learned and wull always try to turn un the rught durectuon for guudance and help Thank you LaVerne Spotts Class Presudent ' I 9 X Y K U f rf 1 1 1 l 1' , - I ' I I 1 I 1- U I I many things, including the way to pattern our actions and deeds. 2 . I I I I I I . . I I I ' 1 . . . . . ,, I