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June 17, 1954 Members of the Class of 1954: In this, my final official message to you, boys and girls, I have set myself a task that I realize is not an easy one. I would arouse you to an awareness of your richest possession your youth (and all it implies), and I would caution you to guard that youth with all your strength that you might never lose it. Than youth there is no finer thing in all the world. It is human nature at its highest potential¬ ity, untouched by the corroding influence of time. It is your young heart s that bring a new vision, a new strength, and a hope as yet undimmed unto the solution of humanity’s problems. It is the contemplation of youth that gives substance to all our dreams, and I am convinced that no labor can prove quite in vain, no sacrifice futile as long as there are young people. The truths that we who are older glimpse so darkly, your minds understand; where we falter, your hearts are bold; what we attempt so fumblingly, your hands are deft to accomplish. No man rejoices at finding his youth slipping away from him, and great deeds have not been accomplished save by those who have never lost its magic touch. The years that come when youth has passed are the years of affliction, of which the verdict must always be, “They please me not.” Your youth has manv engaging qualities, hut two there are that stand forth, and seem to e of its very definition. These are faith and courage. It is your way to believe, to trust, to have confidence. That things may not be what they seem does not enter into your calculations, lo you life beckons, revealing the vision of her opulence. Faith colors your relations ■with others. You do not put yourself on the defensive. You accept people on their face value. To you every human being is a potential friend. Being without guile yourselves, you do not look for it in others. Most important of all, you believe in yourself. You feel equal to your dreams and are not deterred by any sense of personal limitation. Whatever may be demanded of you you feel sure that you can give. herever the enemy may lurk, you do not expect to find him in your own soul. Of faith is born courage. There is a splendid daring about you in your you th that inspires you to cut straight through to the heart of any difficulty. If a thing ought to be done, it can be done, reads your philosophy. Now this is the saddest thing about life, as the years go on you may lose both your faith and your courage, and losing these you lose your youth. It is not the piling up of years that makes people old; it is disillusionment, the experience of misplaced trust. With faith goes courage. Facing the problems of existence, deplete of faith and courage, your hearts may quail within you and you begin to grow afraid in the way. Caution displaces daring, action yields to reaction, conquest to conservation. Then it is that “fear comes upon you,” and you labor feverishly to dig yourselves, to surround yourselves with the trench of routine and your lives become standardized and what, after all, is standardization but the pitiful salvaging of the spoils of earlier victories, won ere faith and courage had departed. You may now ask yourself, must things happen thus? Must faith bow to disillusion, and courage degenerate into cowardice? Is youth forever doomed to die? My answer to you is. Youth need never die if only you capture its spirit. The record of the deeds of the great ones of tie human race demonstrate that it is possible to advance in age without growing old, without faith and courage. They made their dreams come true, because neither length, nor breadth, nor height, nor depth could sparate them from their ideals nor weaken their high reso ve. ley never ceased being young nor did the years come to them of which they said. They please me not. These things you too may do if you will but hold fast to the vir es of youth, without suc¬ cumbing to its vices. For like all fair things under the sun, youth has its blemishes. The sin of youth is folly, the spawn of inexperience, which causes faith to degenerate into gu i i ity, and turns courage into bravado. Folly is impetuous, self-willed, intolerant of direction. It will lead you to squander your choicest gifts, and to put your faith in error and not in trut . le tangible and the material are the norms of the values of folly. Immediate results an t e materia rewards are its gods. Now, boys and girls, through your education you are the heirs to the experience and the wisdom of the ages. You are not asked to begin at the beginning and to fight battles already won. Rather it is for you to set forth to further victories, and so my prayer for you at this time is that you may never know the time of affliction nor behold the years drawing near of which you shall say, ley please me not,” that faith and courage may always be your portion and that your youth may never Affectionately yours. Principal
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