Encina High School - Encinian Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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William L. Cunningham, Assistant Superintendent Personnel Services Robert P. Binns, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services if Ferd. J. Kiesel Superintendent of Schools James A. Cowan, Assistant Superintendent Business Services 3

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To the Class of Sixty-two . . . because of my feeling of responsibility for the education you have obtained, I dedicate my message to you seniors who will be the first graduates to spend all of your high school careers at Encina. I know you have been offered a sound basic education and a strong general bias in favor of the continuation of your learning throughout your life. As you look at your diploma, your yearbook, your school memoirs, you will, I hope, feel again our urging to commit yourself to life-long learning and to energetic democratic participation in your government. As the new dynamic citizen, your continuous learning will help you to understand the vital issues of the day and to judge whether these vital issues are being adequately met. You must, in a sense, contribute by much more than voting. Our world has become so big and so complicated and so difficult to understand that many older citizens have developed the feeling that the individual isn't terribly important any -more. You must renew their faith as you remind them that the essence of our strength, no matter how big and how complicated our democracy is, is the drive and motiv- ation and the moral integrity of the individuals who make up the nation. You will strengthen our nation as you increase your contagious conviction that the most important ingredient in a democracy is a strong and continuing concern for the individual, his integrity and his values. I hope we helped you to want more than security, more than comfort, more than luxury--although we hope you will have these. I hope we have encouraged you to want meaning in your life and that you will demand from your culture great objectives and convictions. Never settle for the shallow or the trivial. The sincerity of your demands for these values by which to live and die will be evidenced by your willingness to participate and to join with others in a. life committed to personal and social improvement. .Tame s W . Smith Principal