Luxemburg Union High School - Memories in Blue Yearbook (Luxemburg, WI)

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THE il STAFF SEATED IffT TO RIGHT „rm„ . Hwm.ni. Charmar. of the Forensici Commits. Donald Sell. Assistant Edtlor; Marilyn Barb.au Editor- TAMniwr V ' i B C J“ ,,m » n of ,h ? A Soctponj Gertruda Oahlke, Chairman of the Typ.ng Commitiee STANDING-jean Allard Chairman of the Photo Committee,- Donald Newer, Bwine.t Manager; Roger Rueekl, Auialant Buiineta Menage,. EDITORIAL We, [he Senior Class, take this opportunity to bring you this sixth edition of the Luxemburg High School Annual. We hope it will bring back memories of your school days in later years and that it will give a dear description of events of your high school days. As our high school career draws to a close, we take a brief look into the future to see what vacancies are left open for us. With the world in such a chaotic condition, we are given little choice as to what career to follow. Youth finds itself in a challenging situation today. But through trust in God and mutual understanding peace can come to this earth. As our generation takes over the leadership of the nation, we shall work to carry out the lessons of friendly international relations which we have been learning through our high school days. May God grant that the people of the world will soon learn to live in friendship with each other and that the youth ol today may venture forth to life careers in a world at peace. Page Folk

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TO THE CLASS OF 1951 This edition of Memories in Blue will always be a monument to a great class that helped to write some of the most brilliant pages in the history of our school. Like knights of old who often dedicated the r 1 !ves Tl the pursuit of their ideals, many of the members of the class of 1951 were willing to work and persevere and sacrifice that their school might achieve one of its finest records in athletics, music, forensics and scholarship. Naturally every member of the school ts proud of this record. Such achievement s are more than mere material accomplishments because they are often associated with certain mental and moral qualities that make for success in any field of endeavor. I am, indeed, proud that 1 should be honored by this class by having this Annual dedicated to me But such an honor is also a responsibility and a challenge to be worthy of this distinction So it is that a teacher often stops to take inventory ■ You are graduating in the most exciting and most uncertain time in the history of our country and perhaps in the history of the world. In so many places we see, ' The old is crumbling down—the limes are changing. Rumors come to us of the military potentialities of the atom bomb and atomic artillery being tested in Nevada. The rumblings there are portentious of a new era in military history. The destructive possibilities of the new scientific developments in this field make us apprehensive of the future of man. Will the development of man ' s social and moral restraints progress rapidly enough to deter man from achieving his own destruction? It would appear that the only hope of mankind is education. It is a weapon that is superior irt its effective¬ ness to the atom bomb. It is a weapon for the purposes of peace. As a teacher I do hope that we have made some contribution in your lives that may help to alleviate or perhaps eliminate the necessity for our periodic lavish sacrifices on the altar of Mars. in the realization of this end I hope we may have aided you in achieving a better citizenship—intelligent, humane, generous, stable and just. May your citizenship incorporate something of the golden rule and the brotherhood of man that you may live intelligent, happy lives in your community. May your training keep you from chasing after the gadgets and the superficialities and the froth of lives without ever valuing and treasur- ing the deeper things of the mind and spirit. Your training should have given you a certain store of knowledge and certain skills in various vocational fields. It is hoped that the search for truth will be a powerful motivating force in your lives. But if you are discriminating in whai truth you select to nourish your mind I shall feel we have been even more successful as teachers But I believe the spiritual values far exceed the material. If we could say that we stimulated you to really wish to be somebody and to be of service rather than seek personal gain, it would be a supreme accomplish- ment. It will take hard work, loyalty, courage and unselfish service to carry us through these trying times. May our services as teachers, through you, make some contribution to that momentous task that lies before us. GEORGE V. GREGOR Page three

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TO THE GRADUATES To the graduates of 1951, I dedicate this message which is in keeping with your class motto — Life is what we make it ' You are all affected — not so much by what life brings to you — as by the attitude you bring to life. Life is what you make it, because living, we are told, is at least 90% attitude, (t is not so much what happens to us, good or bad, that affects us, but it is our attitude toward those events. The intelligent person knows that life is more mental than environmental, so it must mean that you yourselt will determine what your life shall be. Shakespeare ' s Macbeth saw life as a tale that is fold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. We see from this example that Macbeth became what he thought, he believed in nothing and lived for nothing. The life of Christ is the other extreme. In three short years of public work he accomplished so much that even today Christianity, if it would be accepted by everyone, would be the answer to this world s troubles. There might be limes in your lives, my dear graduates, when you may think life does not seem worth living. At such times remember this fundamental truth: if life is worth while, it is not because you found it that way; it is because you have made it so. Have you not read about the Negro poet Dunbar, who spent the first twenty-four years of his life bitterly expressing such thoughts as: A crust o f bread and a corner to sleep in A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. At the age of thirty-four, though his health had been taken from him, and he was about to die of tubercu¬ losis, he had changed his philosophy of life completely and expressed the same idea in these words; A crust and a corner that love makes precious With the smile to warm and the tears to refresh us. Our lives can be changed by the renewing of our minds and the perfecting of our attitudes. Again we may turn to the words of One who said, Be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds that ye may prove whal is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. A successful life is a disciplined life. We must all be disciplined to have a purpose in life, to have a vision. Where there is no vision the people perish. The world needs men and women of vision: it needs peop-e and nations who will not hold ill will or hatred toward others. The fruits of hatred are war and destruction of life and property. The fruits of love are joy and peace. You are entering a world in which there is still so much to do. Much of the unexplored regions of the world may have been discovered, but what a need there is for people of the entire world to get along peace¬ fully. Now is the time for each one of us to work at the science of human relations, and do our best to understand our neighbor regardless of color or creed. You will need much perseverance to make life worthwhile. Lessons of perseverance are found on every hand. An outstanding story comes to my mind. It is a story Tammerlene used to tell his friends about an experience in his early life: “I was forced to take shelter from my enemies, he said, in a ruined building where I sat alone for many hours. Wanting to divert my mind from my hopeless condition, I fixed my eyes on the ant carrying a grain oi corn larger than itself up a high wall. I numbered the efforts it made to accomplish this objective The grain fed 69 times to the ground, but the ant persevered and the 70th time it reached the top. This sight gave me courage at the moment and I never forgot the lesson. 1 Suppose you fail? H. G. Wells in his autobiography says he made seven attempts to start a career in London and all of them failed, but he went on and after his eighth start succeeded to be famous. Do not look for the easy way out of things. It is true that the masses of people prefer it, but the easy way has lost its thrill of victory. The time of least resistance makes crooked rivers, crooked paths and crooked men and women as well. Armed with the right attitudes, life is a glorious adventure. Finally, my dear graduates — “Whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are of good report — think on these things. Eunice E. Hannon Senior Class Advisor Page Fivt