Climax High School - Viking Yearbook (Climax, MN)

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though thatroad may be difficult to find there are many sign posts to help us find it. Some of the sign posts are ambition, imagination, enthus- iasm, and persistence. Many of us may have ambition to get ahead but we might net have persistence or imaginat- ion. If that be the case, we must overcomn our weak points and make them strong. On the road to success there are many handicaps but if we are persistent, many times we can overcome them and rise rhovt them. Look at some of our really succesfull people Milton, who was a great poet was blind but he became a sucees in life, Beethoven who was one of the greatest writers of music vas deaf, but he still had the desire and determination to become a success regardless of his handicap. So, why can't we be successful? We can, every- one can. We seniors who are graduating to-night have had only a taste of education but -nr four years of high school will help us reach the main highway which will help us to succ- eed. So, friens if you forget everything else K say, don't for- get these two lines. nHe lives most, who thinks most,N Who feels noblest, And who acts the best.H Violet Heritz: ? THE AMERICAN YOUTH We, the seniors of 1940 are representatives of the Amer- icn youth. Among all the wide variety of English phrases. there is perhaps none more comprehensive, suggesting, and stimulating to the imagination than the one called Amer- ican youth, potentialities of greatness and of goodness, of power and of foolishness and evil. Even the simple word NYouthU standing alone without any qualifications, whatever, sends the lively imagination soaring to far distant heights. In the face of this fact does not the developement of the American boy and girl a- waken the attention of every thoughtful and intelligent human being. We reached a point where we begin to see life from a new angle, the angle of the welfare of others, instead of that of ourselves. The American youth of tommorrow must be br- ought up to this ideal as never before in the history of the world. The world was has taught us the great lesson of the inter-