Hermon DeKalb Central School - Demon Yearbook (De Kalb Junction, NY)

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Foreign Exchange Student I would like to thank all of you here at Hermon- DeKalb for helping me through this year. I’m glad I came here and got to know all of you. If you ever have another exchange student, I hope you will do for them what you have done for me. It’s very difficult for a person to go to another country with different ways and be accepted. Everyone here accepted me for who I was and I’d like to thank-you for that. I hope that someday some of you can visit my country, Japan. You will be welcomed with open arms as I was here. I will never forget my senior year at Hermon- DeKalb and I have all of you to thank for that. 4

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Board of Education 1st Row: Mrs. Morrill, Mrs. Vin- ing, Mrs. Young. 2nd Row: Mrs. Fenlong, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Woodrow, Mr. Denesha, Mr. Thornton. Administration Mr. R. Forbes, Principal Mr. J. Sandwick, Superintendent Students: My message this year concerns one small word that we have all learned to use. The word is rights.” All of us have expressed, or thought the idea, I have my “rights” or I have a right to do what I want to do.” Granted that we have certain inalienable rights” as expressed in our constitution. My concern is that maybe we have stretched this idea to the point where it has begun to backfire” on us as a nation, and as citizens of this great country. Have we begun to lose sight of the fact that with our “rights there is also something called “responsibility? If you, as a student, do not study and do your work, do you have a right to pass, or is your failure your own responsibility? Does an employee who per- forms shoddy work have the “right” to continue on that job? Does anyone have the right to do anything that is detrimental to other people? In a school situation, I refer to disruption of a class, defacing school property, using foul or abusive language, not complying with the rules and regula- tions, etc. In performing these acts, other people are hurt, and when other people are involved, there can be no individual rights. Responsibility is the key. Be responsible for yourself, your work, and your actions. Too many times have I heard students say when receiving a reprimand, “Johnnie did it first. That is not an acceptable answer. Those seniors who obtain a job after graduation should be responsible and make themselves valuable to their employer. Those seniors who plan to further their education will have to be responsible for their own work and time. You make your own success both in and out of school. My congratulations to Mrs. Peters and the Yearbook staff for an excellent book. It is the result of hard work and you have a right to be proud of your book. r This page was paid for and sponsored by your Student Council. 5