Mason High School - Anchora Yearbook (Mason, MI)

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.....:..:.: :.: : :.:.:.:.:..: :.:..:..:.:..:..:.: :u-Anchora..,-.-.....- VALEDICTORY As I think of this day of spring passing into summer, summer into fall, and autumn into winter, I know I shall be forgiven if I make a fanciful comparison between these seasons, and that which we see in imagination through life's window of dreams. As Mother Nature moves from the promise of spring to the fulfilment of summer, to the mellow richness of autumn, to the safe retreat of winter, so man, in the normal span of living passes through the door of youth's hope and adventure to the chamber of man' hoods realization, to the softer adjustment of approaching age, on to the quiet peace of life's white winter. We know that spring is for Nature. It is then that the earth and heaven are being prepared for the full flowering of summer. So it is that in the springtime of human life, in childhood and youth, we lay the foundations of what is yet to come. It goes without denial that the seeds of living planted then become beginnings of success or failure. Youth looks forward into the future with a hope that knows no bounds, with a fancy that overleaps the present, a daring that knows no discouragement, an enthusiasm that sings in dreams and visions. It is in the springtime of life we lay the foundations of our ideals. Some dream of riches and fame: some of power and beauty: some of studyg and some of just having a good time . We must learn early to distinguish between the sham and the real, the permanent and the passing, the high and the low. The next window of dreams looks out upon the summer of life. In nature, summer brings to fulfilment the expectations of spring. The hidden beauties of April and May become the gorgeous realities of june, july and August. But also there are droughts and insects and frosts, which destroy the harvest of our most careful planting. So it is with human life. The dreams and visions of youth in too many instances fall short of realif zation. The world, we begin to see, is not an easy place in which to live. Maturity may bring us glorious success, but it may also bring us up with a shock to the fact that we are not as good as we thought we were. It is a time for taking inventory of what we can do and what we cannot do. Some simply drift on the stream of failure and get nowhere with dreams of what might have been, others, more sensible, see their real possibilities. and build a solid foundation and structure thereon. As we come upon the next window of dreams, we look out upon the autumn of life. The gray hairs are beginning to come: the body is slowing up: ambition is beginning to relax. We see the setting sun. We like to rest more, the strenuous life does not hold the same appeal. What once seemed so terribly important seems a little insignificant. So in the autumn of life, when good fortune, genius and hard work have heaped comfort, luxury and honor upon us, let us be humble and sympathetic to those who have fallen by the wayside. Finally, at the end of the short road of life stands the winter of old age. It, too, has its window of dreams. For a rich and fruitful life is the crowning glory of attainment. Grown old, we may sit back in tranquility, and enjoy the simpler things of life. If we have enough within ourselves of peace and happy memory, then the window of winters dreams will be painted with mellowness, charm and beauty. So we look out upon human experience through life's four windows of dreams . . the springtime of youth, adventure and hopeg the summer of realization and fruition: the autumntide of wisdom and faith, the winter of memory, of tranquility. The spirit within us can in any season of life, rise Phoenixflike from the ashes of misfortune, to build a new, a greater kingdom of living. -Lorna Rusch.

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