Chelmsford High School - Yearbook (Chelmsford, MA)

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Seek, Secure, cmd Shore A wise and good Teacher once gave His followers some very sound advice about living. Seek and ye shall find, said He. We live in a world which belongs to men who seek. We, the Class of 1947, believe that no man is more hopelessly misled than hc who thinks the world will lay its best gifts on his doorstep, and that without effort on his part he will receive wealth and honor. So to believe is to live in a fool's para' dise. The most worthwhile things in life, such as friendship, integrity, and success, come to the man who searches, the man who pursues, the man who is never quite satis' lied with his present level of achievement. lt is one thing to seek, it is another thing, however, to secure what one finds. Simply stsated, to secure is to move in and possess that which we find. Many men reach the',top, but not knowing how to live in the rarilied atmosphere of the heights, they fail at the moment of success. The wise possess things, the unwise are possessed by them. It was old King Midas who loved gold so passionately that he wished every- thing he touched might be transformed into the precious metal. Only when his lovely little daughter became a gold statue at his touch, did King Midas fully realize how completely he was a slave to his possessions. Actually to preserve and fortify what we have sought is to be happy, but to be enslaved by what we have sought is the most dismal failure. Seeking, securing, sharing--these three, but the greatest of these is sharing. What is good always becomes better when it is shared. Happiness deserts us when we lock it up within ourselves. Love turns to dust and ashes when a man heaps it upon him' self and himself alone. The game is won when men share the struggle. If tomorrow is a better day, it will be so because high school young people everywhere have learned to share in a common cause-the building of a new world. THELMA BURTON '47

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Wit, IIIL' Class of 1947, LiULilL'Ll!L' H115 book to C11A1aLo'1 1'E S. CAIQIKIEL zf'lm.w gzudancu and tcczclnngs luwc shown us infinite horizons in study, 1'UL'flIfOHS, and human frclcltionslnps.