Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS These commencement ceremonies are for our graduating class the close of an un forgettable chapter in our lives During our years at Middlesex vse have grown up physically we have formed lasting friendships me have begun to find our real selves and perhaps we have found real purpose in our existence But more than this these ceremonies represent the commencement of a challenging future The first members of our graduating class came to this school at the height of World War II While we were here Germany was defeated The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiro shima and Man at last had the means to commit mass suicide We watched as the United Nations was formed and struggled for effectiveness against the ever present Russian veto At the end of our Third Class year the Marshall Plan was proposed The next fall during the presidential election we campaigned vigorously among ourselves for Dewey Truman and even Thurmond Yet during our earlier years these affairs of the outside world concerned us very little We were living through a momentous period in history and we were scarcely aware of it But as we became Second and First Classers we began to realize that there were things more important to the opinions of several speakers some of them Middlesex graduates who came to talk to us about current affairs And now we find ourselves trying to do our own thinking to have our own opinions and to discuss them intelligently with each other As we leave Middlesex today there are people who think we face a .lark and troubled future in which we shall never know real peace and security But I cannot share their pessimism We are going into a world which looks to America for leadership in finding a way for all men to live together in peace This is a challenge for us and for all the Classes of 1950 like us every where, and we must meet it If it can t be met we will have to Hght the war which will result, and our sons and grandsons will never have the wonderful opportunities which vie have had We realize that we have a responsibility to them and to the school that has meant so much to us all but most of all we have a responsibility to ourselves to do whatever we can no matter hovs small it may be to help find the road to peace and in our hearts is the realization that however vie may in some small way succeed will be a reflection in part of everything we have done and everything we have learned in our years here at Middlesex john H MrCbom' JI l 1 i A f I ' 7 7 7 ' than ourselves and our school life. We listened not only with respect but with real curiosity ,A 4, l . . , .g i

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