Ceres High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Ceres, VA)

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Valcedictory there 6re times in the expcericnee of everyone when Farewell saems the saddest of all sad words. here erc other timeg when eround the sadness lingers € touch of goldcn Lope end jor end today ig one of these times of mixed emotions. wo ey ferowell to tefchers 11d to schoolmates briigs imdecd penss of regret, but @9 we lo.l: forwerd to yoers of ork end the world, when vc fre to give it gconerously of the best whick is in us, ¢ throb of exeltrtion dSlends with the feclin: to regret. @rcet ere the juy end privilezes of being « kish Schocl student. Yet none, I am sure would Wisk to remein onc forever. There arc other Leights to olimb, other srizes to centure in the greet seme of life, other Visrxs towerd which wG féecl en ove rwhe inin: dcsirc to press . sjhet Whet world of thou ht is epitomized in this one pl.risc of st. Peul's. I pr oss towerd the mérx , shis is the spirit which hes ocon be- hind ell the world's great achievements, in cvery depertment of lifc. People forget so cesily thet, Lerven is not reeched by a single oound, end thet no. one comes into success without previous ceascless toil. There is another sentence in this greet saying of the epostle, to whick it is well fox us to refcr, sorgcttinz tl.ose things which ere ovehind . Lhis forgetting = Oftcn 0 essentitli pert of success. Pcerhe ps yuu keve done gicet things in the nest, led age cléss in scholirship, written tho prize pe jer of the yerr, or led y.ur cléss in Chemistry. Yu beve veca lo. xed up to by rcur cle ssmatcs end, ualess vou co: refully guérd yours self upon pest achicwoncuts, weer your lcrarcls deilr, in se€son and out of se: sou, tist te mney s¢ seen of men , ut forzct rl those ‘things. whet you héve done should oe ro ligetcd to the pest for you kone te do still zrceter decds in the future. You cannot turn the mill with weter which is prst pean ee do not sit down folding your hends et ecsc bcekuse of srert trsks slres ay Eeccomplished. This hour of our nerting, deer clessmctes, will be gilded vith tke hope of florious future if we Sate tae LESS SET ELSE HONE s Utorretti ne those TETAS whick are bckina, I rress towerd the mer.