Hopewell High School - Memories Yearbook (Hopewell, OH)

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To those, too, who can remember their own thoughts and emotlons on sunllar oeoaslons in their own lives, it will be a pleasant remnder of their early hopes and aims. To our parents and relatives, it ls an hour of pride and affectlon +o our teachers, an hour of mingled joy in our suceess,and regret,we trust,over the necessary parting To us, the Class of 1959, this is indeed a great coca s1cn, one of the most 1mpress1ve times of our lives, and one that will forever llve 1n our memories. This evening closes for us the most important episode in our lives that we have yet known, As we look back over that period time we can say we have done our best, yet if we could gc back and lock lnto the future, perhaps we would nake nany amendments 'As we look back over the past, with all its great a wonderful v1ctories and achievements, and look forward to the future, with all 1ts yet more wonderful promise great and g1cr1ous things to come, and mlghty and zmrvel ous deeds awa1ti.ng our hands for the doing, we must enter into th1s celeb:-at1on in the proper spirit of young men and women, fresh from the mint of High School, and deter minxng to put before the people who may come to be our guests, the very best demonstrations of our ability to en tertain them of whlch we are capable, not only as a proc! of what we have aeccmphshed, but as a promise of the ful f1l1ment of all the resolutions we have nnde for the life o come so soon And now, dear fr1cnds, as we enter into this program, our eormnencement exerczlses, we are all most earnest in as suring you of our Joy and honor of having you here, Ib bel that 1n every part of the ceremony you vnll be reassured of our joy in your presence And new I, in behalf of the class of nxneteen hundred and thirty nine, bid you Welcome to our eoxmencement Gertrude Krcager, SALUTATORIAN s I ' ' of O ' nd ' of Q t ' Il. I O