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Page 33 text:
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Valedictory Teachers, Members of the School Board, Classmates and friends. We, the class of 1921, have assembled here tonight for the last time as students of Colon High School. Tomorrow we shall have started the rocky accent of life, which lies directly before us. But as a farewell greeting we wish to show our appreciation to our friends for their important part in our preparation for the great tasks before us. To our Teachers, we wish to extend our sincere thanks. It is due to their kindness and unselfishness, more than any other factor, that we are what we are, today. Because of their influence we have progressed thus far so successfully in our journey of life. And as we go out into life, in our victories and defeats, our thoughts will always come back, and our hearts will go out to our instructors, who so faithfully taught us to tight our battles of life. The school Board, we wish to thank heartily for their cooperation, and the tine management of our school the four years, which we have spent here. Jt is thru your farsightedness and ability to handle the problems of the school, that our institution is classed among the best. And as we leave tonight, we wish to extend our hopes for your prosperity and the success and exaltation of Colon High School. Our Parents and Friends, we thank for their tine support of our educational institutions. It is your forgetfulness of self and your ceaseless devotion, that has enabled us to secure an education not to be surpassed in any other town in our state. It is your pride to have your sons and daughters receive the best education, and your persistency in raising the standard of our High School, that brings the excellent results. We also thank you for your hearty support of our school activities. Also we have special affection for one who has faithfully coached us for the further development and success of Colon High School in her endeavors for supremacy in athletics. To the under-graduates we extend our deepest thanks ior their invaluable help in promoting the success of our activities. We leave with you our best wishes and hopes, that you may do far greater things for Colon High School than we have; that you may
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profit by our mistakes, and carry our successes on to the utmost lory for Colon High ScUool. As we, the class of 1921, receive our honorary dismissal from Colon High School tonight, and clasp the warm hands of friendship of our classmates and friends, some of them, perhaps for the last time, we wonder what the future may have in store for us. It is as though we were standing at the base of a towering cliff, trying to pierce the mist and gloom to discern the symbols of success and prosperity, that are written at the top. To our untrained eyes, the summit of the precipice seems afar off, and we can detect no well defined roads leading wdience we wish to go. No, not even foot-paths can w7e see. but the whole face of the cliff is a mass of huge boulders, and sharp jutting rocks. From every crack and crevice on its rough surface, long cruel briers, extend their arms to totally obliterate every space that is access bl to the footsteps of man. Where the briers obstruct our j rogress, we must climb the perpendicular cliff. We must hew from the solid rocks, places for the grip of our hands, and for the support of our feet. Here w7e must make our way wholly by our own efforts. But at the top of these steep walls, and at regular intervals on the cliff, ledges protrude, on which wTe may rest and look back over the rough country, which we have traveled, and from our elevated positions we can look over the beautiful valley lying below us. But we know7, we must not rest too long on the first ledges of the mountain to success, feasting our eyes on the beauty below, but we must gain the higher ledges, then the highest, if we are able, to get the most beautiful view7 of the surrounding country. Is it with awe, and sometimes w7ith something like fear, that we ponder over the perilous journey before us. Then again our hearts throb writh the blood of youth, and w7eare strengthened for the hard problems w7ith courage and confidence. We must reach success and w7e will reach it by our knowledge, character and physical training received in Colon High School. When we are empowered with the Seven League Boots of knowledge, the rough and rugged rocks form no obstacles in our paths. The briers of sin and vice are tlrnnvn aside by our cloaks of honesty, loyalty, and love for our fellow7 men. When we are inclined to rest too long on the ledges of ease, it is our determination which pushes us on to the top, and to our ultimate success. It w7as the impulse for education that brought us here at the base of
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