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

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SALUTATORY Parents, Teachers, Friends, and Classmates: With the utmost sincerity cn behalf of the class of 1949, I extend to you a cordial welcome to our commencement exerslses. We have met here tonight for the last time as students of high school. To you folks In the audience, this affair may 3eem to be only the passing of another graduating class. But to us It 1s the climax of four long years of ceaseless efforts, looking forward to this—our graduation night. Tc most students, grad- uation is an occasion of happiness and sorrow--happlness at being able to graduate and sorrow for leaving one's classmates. We think of all the things that we shall never do again like chewing gura in class and drawing our type of modern art all over the blackbeards. We have had a happy and successful past. Success consists of three things: well laid plans, courage, and persistent efforts in a definite direction. To begin well is the foundation and secret of success; to possess the courage and determination to succeed and succeed from the start--the3e are the qualities that cast their shadow over one's future.So now we turn to the future. In graduating we leave high school and enter life's school. This school is going to be much mere difficult than the one we are leaving this evening. There will be thousands of things a- head of ua waiting to be done and to be successful we must work hard and long. For myself and my fellow classmates, I wish to thank our parents and teachers for their kind assistance and cooperation in making this graduation possible and to extend once again a hearty welcome to those attending the commencement exercises here this evening. OUR GYMNASIUM 19 10 49

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VfllEOICTORy Parents, Teachers, Friends and Classmates: As valedictorian of this class, I am supposed to bring you the farewell of these distinguished disciples of learning who ap- pear before you Most of you have attended former Commencement ceremonies and from your resigned looks I know you are expecting me to stand upon the threshold and bore you with the seme old stories of porting and the saying of sad goodbyes. You think you know, almost line for line, what I shall say from the citations of: The School and the Faculty we love with all our hearts, down to the, Farewell, farewell, dear classmates--the hour has come to part. Ladles and gentlemen, you are mistaken! This valldlctory Is going to be different. Our class Is different; there have been very brilliant classes who have graduated from this school but-- ours Is different; there have been classes who were very handsome but—ours Is different; there have been classes noted for fine behavior and deportment but again ours Is different! And since we are different from others who have gone before, It Is fitting that this valedictory shall be different. I am not going to refer to the vast stores of knowledge our class has acquired during our high school days because as a class-- There Is so little learning In the wisest of us, And so much wisdom In the dullest of us. That It lsn1 t fitting for the best of us To talk about the rest of us. I really would like to thank the Board of Education for Its careful attention to the needs of our class and Its generosity In giving us up-to-date appliances. I would like to thank the mem- bers of the faculty for the persistent way In which they have polished us mentally, morally and physically, though I am sure they thought at times that It was a hopeless and thankless task and that we were unwilling and ungrateful. As I said before I would like to thank them for these many services, but I can tdo It because this parting has to be different. I can t even exhort the members of the class of 1949 to go forth with high Ideals and loyal hearts to win laurels for the dear old school ; but that doesn1 t worry me because our attempts at meeting examinations and our diligence in preparing for them assures me that we will be able to stand up pretty well under the trials of life. Yes I am quite confident that when we look back upon the tests of our senior year we will go on to victory. Schoolmates, classmates, this Is no funeral occasion. Al- though we may expire as seniors, the class of 1949 shall still live on. There is no deathl What seems so Is transition ; and bound by the ties of these years in Brady High School, we shall live more actively than ever before. We are leaving for various lines of study and of labor, but remember, we are different; Let there be no sadness of farewell when we embark. 0 r JLO

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Parenta, faculty, classmates, and friends: As president of the senior class of 1949 of the Brady High School, it becomes my duty and great pleasure to say a few words of appreciation to friends, classmates, and faculty. I wish to thank the faculty members for all the hardships they have undergone to make this graduation possible. I wish to express to the Junior class and underclassman our appreciation for the cooperation they have given us to make our student body activities a success. 'Ve will long cherish the hap- py memories of the good times we have had with you fellow stu- dents during our high school days. I am proud to speak these words that carry with them from every member of this class, a cordial and grateful welcome to these excercises tonight. n n AflfiuAL Staff 1st. row: D. Rabe, T. Coughlin, B. Armstrong. 2nd. row: L. Pear- dor ff, Kr. Royels, D. Wesley. 19 11 49