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

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To Members of the Graduating Class of 1948: This is an important time in your lives. It is an oc- casion when everyone of you has his eyes to the future. Some of you are thinking of college days; others of you are al- ready planning for the work which you will take up. You all have plans and hopes for the great things you will accomplish. We hope that your high school education will help make it possible for your dreams to come true. All of the great things of the world had to be visual- ized before they achieved reality. It is said that Napoleon first was a dreamer—then he set to work planning how he could make his dreams come true. The architect who planned the new Big Sandy High School building had to have a vision of the completed building before he could go to work on the details. The writer who would create a great piece of lit- erature must visualize the whole before he can begin to write. Abraham Lincoln had a vision of a nation composed of free men and women, and it was this vision that led him to the realization of his ideal. Without this definite aim in life it is easy to see what wasted effort each day would be. Like a boat which had no set course you would go around and around in circles, using up your energy but getting nowhere. Up until this time you have been more or less following the vision of others. You have been led by those planning for you. Each of you has gone through the elementary grades and high school. You have probably never questioned the means by which education has been made possible for you. But if you think about it you will realize that someone had a vision--a vision down from generation to generation until it is now almost a reality. I have considered it a great privilege to work with you during your high school career in Big Sandy. It is my sincere wish that your visions will be realized, and your lives will become worthy masterpieces.