Bradley Bourbonnais Community High School - Bradleyan Yearbook (Bradley, IL)

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2222221 Ro Welker Ed. M0 A Superintendent, General Science James Cook B. S. Charles Torode, Q. Sai QL-M, Economics, Manual Training History Athletics Band, Orchestra Qarrie O. Egan, Q. pt Vera-Baker Home Economics, Chemistry Shorthand, Typewriting Home Management Bookkeeping General Science School Paper Physical Education Carol Brock A. B. Lyitle, A. B. English English Latin, French Geometry, Algebra Vocal Music Library 222222 22222 Earnest A. Bade, President Arthur Hays John Hassett Frank Pezdirtz Everett L. Butts William F. Brickle Frederic C. Hasemeyer 4

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A RETROSPECT, A PROSPECT, AND A SINCERE WISH To the Members of the Graduating Class of 1957: There was time when there was a deep-seated prejudice against the status of the so-called. educated person, for through three hundred years of literature the pedagogue was held up to scorn by the satirist, He was pictured as a man who belonged to the hump blest social class, an uncouth figure equipped with a sort of false scholarship, the butt of all the bright pupils--a sort or proverbial bookworm. Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Goldsmith, Irving, and Dickens, each in turn made him the subject of his raillery and the victim of his mockery, Then came a better day, when the educated person began to be looked upon as a leader, and from that time to the present he has held a somewhat enviable po- sition Sh his community. He represented a better social class than thep 'old time schoolmasterng his salary permitted him, and his cultivated taste led him to dress in the same fashion as the recognized leaders of the time. His associates shared his place in the public regardg the teachers in the grades became leaders in the womenis clubs, in the literary organizations, and in the civic federations in the community. The educated man actually won the recognition that should have been accorded to him long, long be- fore, The first half of the above paragraph presents a rather dark picture, but the remainder of the paragraph indicates hope and progress. Even the darkest works of art are illuminated here and there with light refractional rays. Members of the Graduating Class of 1957, for the past twelve years, you have spent much o your time travelling along the educational highway, and now your progress is marked by a well-earned and well-merited reminder of the distance that you have gone--a High School Diploma, There is no return trip for you over this part of the educational highway, but boundless opportunities lie ahead of you, if you make the most of your opportunities. Doubtless you recall how the lions were chained in Bunyan's Pi1grim's Progressg how the traveller felt when he approached them when they appeared to be unchainedg and also how harmless and tied the lions were when they were actually reached by those who possessed the courage to venture onward past their lair. This, though somewhat allegorical, maintains verisimilitude. As we go through life, Ufierce, unchained lionsn at times seem to make their appearance, but for those who have the proper fore- thought, initiative, preparation, and courage, many are the times that the lions are found to be chained and harmless when they are actually reached, True, 'lions have appeared in the pathwayn C' every member of this Graduating Class of 1957, at one stage '1 progress or another, both in the grades and in high school, b'l when these so-called lions were met face-to-face, they were