Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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 fwwwww rjMjv rjrj jrirjrjrjrjrjrMm VALEDICTORIAN SPEECH What does our High Schooling really mean to us. Throughout our years at Flemington High, the major- ity of us hav been saying to ourselves, ''Boy will I ever be glad r-hen j am finished and through school1 Whether we were conscious of it or not this was what we were thinking. As time went on its way we began to ohang§ our viewpoint a little, we began to wonder whet it would be like when we were graduated and wo also wondered if we would care to be through school at all. Y'ell, we now know that it is merely a matter of days unt:.: we are full fledged graduates. sureness '»-I- chat I always There is no felling of imagined ’ oold exist. In fact I am quite uneasy about what the future holds in store for me and I think the rest feel f'-e same. Being aeriors outs us on the spot so to speal:, We are expected to make our own decisions, but we arc jo used to having them made for us. We cbuld very easily become dis- couraged with our own judgment if it were not for the quiding hands of our teachers, parent, and other members of that school which takes in a far vider scope than the one which we are now acquainted with. They are the Senior members of the school of life. A school in which we are merely Freshmen. In talking about the problems which we have be- fore us today,I would like to compare our life to | a house , v hich we are trying to build and direct to our best advantage. In building a house the first thing to be consider- ed is the foundation. We al] know that in order to build a good strong house we need a strong foundation. In acquiring a high school education we have con- structed a very flimsey foundation for our life which is to follow. Some have taken advantage of every bit of material offered them and so have a stronger foundation, but all in all we have pretty much the same start.up to now. But now comes the parting. As we all '-now every- one does not desire the same type house. Just about everyone would want a different tyoe house on his foundation. The builders now separate into two general types: