Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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Your have been chosen, as it were, and trained for leadership and service. You must come thru. The earth is now in a very trubulent and chaotic state and you must untiringly do your little bit in hold- ing high the torches of freedom, justice,righteous- ness, democracy, heypinosa and the American way.,We cannot now have another “Dark Age.1' Your duty is to accept the challenge, champion.the cause, and make this world a better place in which to live. It is your world into which you are about to venture forth, not ours. We are in, at least, the. afternoon of your day. Yours is just beginning Make the most of it. Do not stand by complacently with folded arms waiting for the traditional ’break” or as we some- times say for Opportunity to knock. Be a Galahad or a Launfal and meet it half way. Remeber prom— otion Is two-thirds motion and Industry begins with I and ends with try. Aim high and do not change your goal. If you hover get decorated for marksmanship, maybe you will, for courage, deter— mlnation, and perserverance. After all, that is just as pretty a metal. Docidj© what you are- going to do and then do it. If you think you wil succeed, you will. If you think you won't, don't start. Success and failure are much like a bad cold-—they are mostly in the head. That which Is the stumbling block for some is the stepping stone for others. You must be your own pilot and navigator on the long voyage upon which you are about to embark, ’whether you steer clear of the reefs, have a long, prosperous, happy, and successful cruise and land triumphantly on the opposite shore or crack-up on the rocks is up to you. You are now captain of your own fate. One ship goes east, another west By the self-same wind that blows It isn't the gale, it's the set of sail That determines which way each goes. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As we journey along thru life, It's the set of the soul that determines the goal And not the calm or the strife. My sincere hope and last wish is that you may look back upon your twelve year training period for life with a great deal of pride and satisfact- ion and that you still have, regardless of things that come to pass, a soft spot in your heart for the skipper, the training crew, and of ccmrse, for the hard-boiled first mate. Bon Voyage, Happy Landing, and Pull Steam Ah- ead. Mr. P. E. Miley

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ALL ABOARD You are now about to sail forth from school life into ’’Life’s School” or might we be so pessi- mistic as to say the University of Hard. KnocksCM Up to date you have, probably unknowingly to a greater or less degree been babied, pampered, persuaded, and coaxed along in the way which seems: best for you,' This has been done, not by us alone, but by home and society in general Henceforth this is not so likely to be the case. You have now reached, or will soon reach, the time when you must, to a larger extent, stand on your own feet-— sink or swim, live or die. survive or perish,, At times, no doubt, we have seemed extremely firm, austere, arbitary and even dictatorial, but. after all, it has been for your good or should we say for the good of the cause, Our sole object i-f all times has been to guide you along the course so that it will be easier for you, now, to make this transition from school into society with the least possible readjustment and upset. There must always be a just balance between Liberty and Authority Unrestricted liberty is. you know, anarchy. Whenever liberty goes so far that we begin to tread on the other fellows toes, then authority must step in. Here as elsewho.c. there must be balance. Regardless of what field of enterprise you choose to enter, your wish to take time out for a dental appointment, photograph, motion picture, the purchase of a new frock or for a !‘wild-goose’1 chase of some kind or other, will probably be frow- ned upon also by the captain in whose employ you happen to find yourselves. True, school does break up your day, but so will life’s assignment very often unless you find it different than most of urn have to date. All we have endeavored to do has been to make school as nearly like a real life situation as is possible. The Junior-Senior banquet and the Promenade are history, and Commencement is at hand. Then you shall find yourselves on the threashold of a new day. It is morning and all is before you. With the diploma you are about to receive, society confers upon you not only a privilege and an honor, but more important, an obligation and a duty. Your parents and society in general expect you to return the favor. You are now better equip- ped, we hope, than many, not so fortunate as you, to carry on

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