Grand Rapids High School - Pirate Yearbook (Grand Rapids, OH)

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Valedlctory SUCCESS Parents Teachers Board of Educatton and Frrends Grand Raprds Hrgh School rs about to add the Class of 53 to IIS lrst of graduates After tonrght we wrll Jorn the Alumnus of thrs school rn thrnkrng back on the fond memorres of our hrgh school days and rn prarsrng the at trrbutes of our Alma Mater This class whrch for the most part has spent twelve years together are gorng to separate and each go hrs own way to take hrs place rn socrety Although we may be separated rn person the experrences we ve shared rn school wrll keep us together rn sprrrt You may ask us What are you gorng to do now that you are forced to make some decrsrons of your own? What ever occupatronal answer you may get you ll usually get the sufflx of wantrng to be a success But what really can we say thrs success ts? Is II materral garn? Is tt power? Or 15 rt respect from others happrness and love no matter what your wealth and positron may be? Success has many drfferent meanrngs to dlfferent people and rs applred most readrly to the attarnment of any goal Sometrmes wrthout regard to how or why rt was 3Ch16VCd I belreve success to be an achrevement of goals wrth honor respect and a sense of prrde whrch rs derrved there We of the class of 53 hope as all graduatrng Seruors to make our mark rn soclety and achreve recognrtlon rn our respectrve frelds Thrs may not be natronal state or even county recognrtron but recognrtron by our nergh bors and the people we meet on our home town street Perhaps we are noted for the crops we rarse year after yesirj or for our business head or any other trart whrch we may have cultrvated untrl we have excelled rn that re I belreve that rt IS not the freld whrch you choose whrch wrll determrne your herght of success but that your only barrrer wrll be the amount of your determrnatron to get ahead and the way you go about rt Ifyou are wrll mg to put your all rnto a task and clrmb your starrway to success step by step you w1ll soon frnd yourself at the top respected by man and a satrsfred person Ellzabeth Blackwell the frrst woman to be admrtted 1nto the medrcal professron set her srghts relatrvely htgh compared to the perrod 1n whrch she lrved however by her wrll power rnrtratrve and talents she clrmbed the rough road to her goal whrch she had set hrgh rn the clouds Can you rmagrne the Joy she must have experrenced rn attarnrng her lrfe s dream a dream of servrng humanrty through medrcrne but better strll can you rmagrne the mrllrons of people who have pornted out her lrfe as an example of success In closlng I would lrke to brrefly summarrze my speech rn these few lrnes of poetry entrtled What IS Success? Success wherern was born thrs name? From whence does come the meanrng? Is rt defrned as wealth and fame Or a powerful hand unleanrng? Is he who commands or rules by substance Lrkely to frne the most Happrness? Wrll he be satrsfred wrth hrs lucratrve exrstence? Wrll rt completely frll the trtle Success? No for these form but an rndlfferent srde lrght Helpful and welcomed but o er shadowed by far By the shrmmer and radrance of respect love and rrght Whrch make up the lurnrnous and outshrnrng star So let each of us do as best we are able Settrng our goals for the peak nothrng less Attaln If rn a way that others w1ll label As a f1t defrnrtron for the word Success Dxck Heyman 11 I 1 1 1 . . , ,, ,, . . . Y . , . I I . . , . . , . ' I 11 . - - 11 , . . , , . , . , . . . , 1 ' - - . . . Y . . . - Y ,, ,, . . . . . . . . l Y ' I I I 1 1 . Y I I I Y 4 I U , . I , , 1 1 1 1 I Y I 1 1 ll Y I , .

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Salutatory R0 D TO SUCCESS Parents Faculty and Friends On behalf of this 1953 graduating class Iwant to welcome you to our commencement our beginning Probably a few years ago you my frlends were on a similar commencement stage maybe this one ready to step into an unpredictable future In spite of a troubled world and many hardships you have been successful to a great extent You have experienced two great wars and won them Between the wars you established years of peace but unfortunately had to face and experience a depression During this time doors have been opened to new fields of sclence roads have been started toward world peace Unfortunately there have been failures also We realize this especially as we look at our communist threaten ed world and its state today You are however growing older and your work is nearly completed Now it is our job to cope with these complex problems and f1nd a place in this troubled world We today have a goal to live 1n a peaceful world enjoying our many freedoms just as you had in the years of yesterday By this however l do not mean that the world will gain Just sixteen more inhabitants This IS hardly probable If we would give the world just one doctor who might bring health and comfort to his fellow men we should be successful lf we would supply the world with two or three excellent writers or musicians who would enlighten our world making it a more pleasant place 1n which to live we should be successful lf from our class could come two or three upright salesmen who will do their best to serve their community ters of the next generation we should also be successful Successfultoo would we be if future employers might be leaving thts stage who would be more concerned with the interests of their employees than their vast profits Most probable of all IS that fact that from this stage tonight will step slxteen men and women who will spend their free I1l'l'l6 guiding their children and molding honest characters of the next generation Then too if our children w1ll be able to take their place upon a commencement stage such as th1s tn the next generation still enjoying the same freedoms thatthis generation has preserved for us we shall be exceedingly suc cess ul Failure may seem to dominate a great part of our lives but as I consider this I think of a man who IS said to have really failed ln 1831 he failed 1n business in 1832 defeated in legislature in 1836 he suffered a nervous breakdown ln 1838 defeated agam tn public office in 1843 he was defeated tn Congress in 1848 defeated tu the Senate in 1855 was defeated for Vice President in 1860 was elected Prestdent and in 1865 was assassinated This failure was Abe Lincoln Yes our success IS yet to be tested Yet l feel that with the aid of our faculty parents and community we have been readled to obtain success in its fullest form Th1S Road to Success IS far from being a super highway yet we have been laying the foundation in these last twelve years Now we are to go on seeking more training and experience to complete and pave this our Road to Success 13 QQ 99 and their customers truthfully or maybe just one teacher who will spend his or her life molding the future charac-