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

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Superintendent’s Message Superintendent's Message: At the time I write this message, America is faced with policy disagreements of a magnitude surpassing any others in history. This situation may have changed by the time this annual is published, but I doubt it. It may well have become worse. These disagreements range through such topics as war, population, morality, integration, and even to such things as styles. They have led to demonstrations, violence, alienation, and sometimes, even open warfare. Very often these disagreements have been primarily between the younger generation and the older, in what we sometimes call a generation gap . My concern here is not about the dissent itself. I feel that dissent is useful, valuable, and maybe even neces- sary, because it promotes improvement and progress. My real concern lies in the attitudes so often demonstrated by both sides of this so-called Generation gap . Both sides are so full of self-assurance, smugness, and absolute certainty that their opinions are the ONLY right opinions that little progress can be made. While we sit and howl back and forth about who is right and who is wrong, Americans arc in grave danger of being smothered by their problems. Much of the adult population sits on the comfortable theory that our added years of experience have supplied us with the proper answers, and that the young dissenters are just punks who should be promptly squelched, physically, if necessary, every time they open their mouths to protect something they see as needing change. We take prida in being called the silent majority , a majority' that neither does anything nor listens to anybody. At the same time, the younger generation sees nothing but their own, narrow view points and desires. They refuse to listen to any advice the older generation might have to offer, refuse to think things through to their logical conclusions, and often resort to the very violence they pretend to be protesting against, in trying to gain their own ends. Rather than work with the generation for the betterment of our schools, community, and country, they often withdraw or escape into a world of fantasy, or make believe, from which they can easily condemn others without having to lift a finger themselves. The Hippie groups are a good example of this, and some of our local students demonstrate this same attitudes. Meanwhile, American disintegrates. I only hope that the members of our present society, young and old, will find ways to work together, constructively, before our problems become so huge as to be insurmountable. Neither the silent majority' nor the Hippie gioups can take much pride in their contributions to our America. 12

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ADMINISTRA TION

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School Board: Hard Work Furthers Education ABOVE LEFT: R. Kauk signs papers as R. Donnell, F. Bergstrom and A. Bishop look on. ABOVE: School Board con- ducts one of it's regular meet- ings. LEFT: School Board mem - here are STANDING: R. Kauk, F. Bergstrom, A. Bishop, H. Weikum, B. Baumann. SIT- TING: Superinten dent G. Comes and Clerk R. Donnell. 13