Brady High School - Bulldog / Spotlight Yearbook (Brady, MT)

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President’s Farewell Address Friends. Teachers and Classmates: When I was honored at the beginning of this school term by being: elected President of my class, 1 rather doubted my ability of filling t his position successfully. Since then I have found my task a simple and pleasant one, due to the fact that my classmates have been so very cooperative and loyal. I wish, at this time, to express my appreciation to them by simply saying, “I thank you, classmates. Perhaps some, or even all the members of the Senior Class, feel as I do. As if it were only yesterday that we began our high school life. It is true that there has been much effort put forth by us (students) in order to reach this goal which we have attained tonight. Vet along with this effort there have been many pleasant diversions, which have helped to make our high school life a happy one and will remain in our memories for many years to come. The (Vmimencement Exereises which will take place soon are the starting point from which the members of the class of ‘t( must begin their search for their place in the world. In the past we have had the help of our teachers, parents, and friends, who have mapped out our lives in systematic form, but in the future we must venture out into the world alone. (Jur life is ahead of us and it will he what we make it. Perhaps some of us will go to institutions of higher learning which, of course, will he of great help in our upward climb. However, those who are not financially able or have other reasons for not attending college may also attain success. For success is not only as Mr. Webster terms it, “An at- tainment of a proposed object, it is far more. It is the ability to aeeom I dish Something Which will leave a lasting impression on earth. To achieve these heights one does not necessarily need instruction in the higher branches of knowledge, he need only have faith in himself. The person who refuses to accept defeat is tin one who will have his ambitious realized. I have new come to the most difficult part of my address. The bidding of farewell to all of you, dear friends. Ilow many, many times in life we are forced to admit the inadequacy of men words to express our deepest, feeling. We know in our hearts what w'e wish to say but our lips refuse to say it. Perhaps it is at this moment that we learn something of what Tennyson had in mind when he wrote: “1 would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. Nevertheless I wish, as speaker of the class, to humbly thank all of yon who have made this achievement so beautifully possible for u.s, and in part- ing we shall remember all of the high aims of P.radv High School and make our lives such as will bring pride to you. dear friends, and to our school. licvcrly I uulerdald. 12

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Valedictory Sunrise not Sunset The glowing sun sinks slowly over the snow-eappe-d western inomitnins ami another day is brought to a close. How many school days we have watched end .just so simply and beautifully; but tin passing of this day is somehow very different. So many poets, in describing tin sunset for us, have pictured it as the closing of a day when all work ends and rest begins, ’ommencenient would be a sad event if it meant only the end of the many happy and instruc- tive times we have experienced in our work and play at Brady school. dust as the sunset here each day ushers in another dawn on the other side of the earth, so our graduation tonight is the beginning of another life for us—fuller, richer, perhaps more varied and interesting. We like to speak of commencement as the most beautiful part of our school life, the climax, when the reward for which we have been so eagerly work- ing is at last attained. Hut it is more than that. It is the sunrise, not tin sunset. With tin last classes over and the last words of parting said, it seems that we are beginning life over in a different world, in winch we are going to labor harder, hut just as enthusiastically, toward a goal much higher and more difficult to reach. The saddest and most unwelcome task is now mine—to say farewell for myself and my fellow classmates. Although this is our last meeting as a class, we hope to enjoy many more good times with you as citizens of this community. The cooperation and encouragement which parents, teachers, and friends have constantly given has been deeply appreciated. We want to he worthy of the faith and confidence you have placed in us by making our education possible. We want to accomplish such things that will make our high school proud to claim us as graduates; and we Want to keep forever before 11s not only the memory of this last beautiful evening but all tin pleasant pictures we have of our school days in Krady. We only regret that we cannot, as a class, continue to enjoy the many experiences in store for us in the future as we have so often done in the past. For each and every one of my classmates who have been Mich true friends and faithful companions through our school days, I wish the most of success and happiness that life can hold for anyone. And I in sure that though new ambitions, new interests, new friends may claim our attention, we will con- tinue to he the best of friends, loyal to each other and to the Brady High School. 11 Lelah Hill.

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Salutatory It is my privilege at this time to greet you, and extend to you a very hearty welcome to the eoinmeueement exercises of the (’lass of Our school days are now a thing of the past, like everything which has gone before us. We stand, this evening, wondering whether to look ahead or to glance hack over the road we have traveled. Some look hack, and find that they have not the courage to go alie;ol. w hile others merely glanec, shrug their shoulders, and get ready for the struggle ahead. What a difference, and yet very few notice such attitudes until the person is tried. No one believed Columbus when he set out to find India. Why should they? They knew nothing of the world; but we do know something of the world today. We have for the last twelve years been schooled in the ways of the world, and so we are ready to embark upon whatever course seems best to us. At first glance all fields of activity, which in the past have been exploited, seem to be overflowing with those engaged in living. But look again. There is always room for a few more, either in the same type of activity, or in some new phase of an old method. We must not think of the past, except as a means to the future, nor must it be used merely as a stepping stone into the future. It is through the past we enter the future, and without any pas: there can be no future. Therefore our byword is Ahead.” At every commencement season there comes the problem every graduate must solve. What shall I do with the future?” Our class comes to its graduation iu a period of uncertainty and readjustment. But it is a period which will probably be recorded by future ages as one of the most significant in history . It is this future in which we shall have a part. The world will work out its problems a the future becomes today, and goes trailing into the past. To all of our friends who have helped us through the mistakes and trials of yesterday, we say “Thank you” and welcome you here this evening. We ask your continuing help and inspiration as we leave the past, and proceed to the future. Edwin JoLiwon