Litchfield High School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Litchfield, OH)

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We Will Find A Path Or Make One Friends, on behalf of the graduating class of 1940, I welcome you to this commencement exercise which marks so fittingly, the clos- ing of another scholastic year. For us, how- ever, it means more than merely the closing of school for three short months. To us the doors of this school will be forever barred. We have finished our term here, and now we must set up an entirely new life--we must find a path or make one. Many times we have an- ticipated this hour, yet when we at last have gained our goal, we look ahead fearfully, and wonder what is to come next. Youth is prone to look through rose-colored glasses and to linger by the wayside to enjoy the springtime. But now that we have reached the time when our daily routine is no longer laid out for us by stronger hands, we hope to go forth and make good use of all that has been done for us. A great voet reminds us-- A dwarf on a dead giant's shoulders sees more Than the live giant's vision availed to expiore. Small as we may be, we know full well that there have been giants in the past, and that there are giants whose work we may climb upon and see even more than they saw. In saying farewell, we pause respectfully, reverently. We must not tarry long for the time has come to go on. May your interést go with us; may we not disappoint you. And be- wause we hope to keep open the outlets and the pipe lines to old friends and inspirations, we shall not say good-bye but rather adieu until we meet again. Janet Elise Dague Salutatorian

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Ex Poesia Et Libris The chief purpose of a commencement exercise is to impress upon the graduat- ing class that they are re ady to meet iife, its sorrows and its joys. Of courge if one looks back and pauses for a moment he will understand that the graduating class has been exposed to the joys and sorrows of life for many years. We thank the teachers and the community for all thev have done, and we thank them for all they have tried to do. Deep with- in the heart, lies our appreciation of your efforts. As we say good-bye mists come to our eyes, and we are not ashamed of that mist- ness, for the emotion it betrays. We are going on. We would not stay, nor would you have us, and yet the old ties pull. We do not want to break them, but rather to lengthen them instead. We are young and know little of the ways of the world; yet with the knowledge you ° have given us we have gained for ourselves a goal to guide us along the pathway of life. In my opinion the greatest goal one can achieve is to have his name written in the book of life. May I quote the Holy Bible. and I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away; and there found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small end great, stand before Gods; and the books were open: and another book was opened, which is the baok of life; and the dead were judged out of these things which were found written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man according to their works.