Leland and Gray High School - Messenger Yearbook (Townshend, VT)

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ve1ed1ezery - een:'a' - Yet for 'all of that, it is to be doubted that -the senior class would give up one bit of thef ceremonies, in spite er all the trouble it gives them., This is our day, and I'm afraid we intend to make the most of it. I suspect that even the generel pub11c.would'nQt sive 1t.nn,tQ9,f05Mr, lyee It is one of the few times that the alumni can get to- gether and congratulate one another on still looking fine, when the older residents can remember when they were in high school, and, in short, when those who are interested in the school can come and enjoy the company of others of a similar state of mind. A - Again, if afterwards, one goes away with the feeling of having been uplifted, it eerte1n1y -would be ve11a re assume that something has come from the program. Should we say that it has been enjoyed? A pleasure much akin to re- ligion in nature, for any worth-while religion must be pri- marily an emotional approach to life, regardless of any professed beliefs. And here too, the feeling is the most important thing, regardless of what else may be offered. ' This, then, is graduation, Let us respect it, not for the many things it really is not, as we Qso often do, but for what it is, a quiet time when one can relax -and ,enjoy ,the fellcwshfp it offers, f ' ,William Knight

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rf., .II I 1' I, g Our present ceremonies originated in the old 'Visiting Day' which had the purpose of acquainting the parents and any Qthcr interested adults with the schools This, however, has long since passed until-new greduation offers 'very little insight toward the seheo1,, 'It has become an event, . 15 V 4 A put on .for the benefit oi' theypeople ofthe .surrounding towns, or those who cars This year, though, there was -something of an .in the fem of one or our members giving a history of hfi years here. An experi- ment, perhaps, but a good try.' 27 - , , I 1 Neither is graduation put on as an entertainment, at least not in the usual sense of the word. This is to be exf pected when we consider 'that the class parte are assi ned independently of any speaking ability of the student, Graduation, then, hardly serves the purpose of impart- ing some of the ideas and wisdom supposedly ahsorbed in the years of schoolingq Neither does it new serve, to any great 4 extent, the function of acquainting the school and the come munity. Nor has it much in com on with the plays and such given at various times by the schoole In fact, though it may een strange, graduation is not primarily intellectual at alla It is, indeed, a paradox that this should be predominantly an emotional affair when it is remembered that graduation is the culmination of four - a years of education which is expected, among other things, to give the individual some training in reasons

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:age io . ' SALUTATORY Honorable board of trustees, members of the faculty, parents, schoolmates, and friends: In behalf of the class of l949,' I am happy to wel- come you to our graduation exercises. Our class wishes to express our thanks to you- for the help and encourage- ment given us during the past four years and.we sincerely hope you will enjoy the program. l THE Bmismmur or wonm HUNGER r One of the wor1d's greatest problems is hunger. If everybody had enough to eat most of the troubles of the world could be solved. Experts in th1s'f1eld have warned that there is not enough land on earth to raise the food humans need. There is too little to eat for the numbers of people and half of the world's population is underfed. A fifth of the people live on the brink of hunger. Less than a third .get the .calories required lto keep them healthy.. . A H , 'we face the problem of how to produce more food from the amount of soil we haves, Already the burden that millions load on the soil is destroying the lands Double the present soil, production' would be required to'bring all the people of the world up to the eating standards of the well-fed nationso So'why not use the water to proe duce food? I I I The knowledge of science has now come to our aid and has found a way to produce. food without the aid of soil. Many experiments are under way land the most recently publicized one is in Jamaica, west Indies, where one fac- tory has turned crude molasses into food yeast which people are eating, There was a surplus of molasses