Jordan High School - Beetdigger Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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FUTURE DOORS The doors of the future will be open to prepared to think through your way oT life the easier you become marked for a totali- tarian type of living. If you do not work young men and women to enter democratic ways of life or to enter autocratic, dicta- torial paths for the future. It is well to take inventory of the. influ- ences toward which you lean or which you permit to bear upon your lives and enter into your conduct. The democratic way of life involves work to be prepared to make your own living, to select the vocations you desire to follow. Choice of that vocation depends upon the present school foundation. You are laying stone by stone, little by little, to make your choice possible. A well-laid foundation limits the type of educational house you can build for yourself. The poten- tial power to think and decide you may now enjoy; but the use of that power depends upon using and developing your powers of today and making choices that in time will strengthen your ability to choose wisely; in other words, to mature educationally. A mature, intelligent individual interested in the welfare of others, is necessary to main- tain a democracy. The autocratic way of life is the other door open to young people. The less you are now to become prepared to choose the work you would like to do, you are prepared for totalitarian living. The history of the past struggle for our present form of government tells the story of trials you may face if you are not willing to accept the gains made in freedom, religion, and living that now are your heritage because someone else laid down their lives to leave them to you. Un- willingness now to face hardships to per- petuate the opportunities inherent in a democracy exposes you to the influences which end in totalitarian government. The answer, then, is to be found in your conduct today in the face of all odds meet- ing you at every door of activity. Where is it leading? if you don't know, you are charged with the responsibility of discern- ing it. You must labor to be able to discern. No one can give it to you. Work is the only means of acquiring it. Here at school are the tools of learning. You must acquire them if you expect to work with more than your hands and a strong back. Eleven

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 up et in ten den t Left to right—Dr. C. N. Jensen, superintendent, Sandy; Cyrus W. Vawdrey, Draper; James C. Hansen, South Jordan; Dr. Paul S. Richards, Bingham; Horace T. Godfrey, Union; J. M. Boyden, Sandy; Stanley Rasmussen, cleric, Sandy. The struggle between tyranny and liberty has been waged through- out all history. Never has it been a struggle so severe and all embracing as that which encircles the world at present. It is a struggle to the death. One or the other must perish. Our faith is that liberty shall be preserved. And why that faith? It is due to the fact that the open door of American Education has beckoned us to enter and has acquainted us with an ideology that we feel intuitively is the ideology of progress. This ideology stands for freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of all people from want, and freedom from fear. C. N. JENSEN. BOARD OF EDUCATION

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P. M. Mickelsen Midvale U. of U. U.S.A.C. Coordinator N.Y.A. Jesse B. Casper Murray U. of U. U. of Calif. Sociology Economics Sophomore Adviser Harold Thorpe Sandy U. of U. B.Y.U. English Junior Adviser Alma F. Smith, Draper U. of U. Mathematics. Commercial Senior Adviser. Graduation Com. O. D. Ballard, Draper U. of U., B.Y.U. English. Student Body Activities Boys’ Club Adviser. Broadcaster Graduation Com. Mabel Larson, Sandy U. of U. Cafeteria Clarence R. Nelson, Sandy U. of U., Washington State Auto Mechanics. Transportation Junior Adviser, Social Com. National Com. Joseph A. Workman, Riverton U. of U.. U.S.A.C. Physical Education. History Coaching, Athletic Adviser A. C. Jensen, Sandy U. of U.. U. of Washington Biological Science Senior Credits Harold Despain Sandy U. of U.. U.S.A.C. Auto Mechanics Senior Adviser Orson Smith Draper U. of U.. U.S.A.C. Physical Science Beetdigger Photographer Camera Club Adviser J. N. Dorius Sandy U. of U.. B.Y.U. American History Senior Adviser Phil F. Goldbranson Sandy U. of California Social Science Assemblies Debating Twelve