Milton High School - Blue Gold Yearbook (Milton, VT)

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17 Bl ue and G0 76155 Poem 13 y Ernest Dubuque E LIVE in a world of hate and love, VV here together we pray to Him above For peace and forgiveness, that He shall bestow grace, And bring nothing but happiness into this war- jeopardized place. XVe, the class of ,51 are also a part Of this extreme misery and sorrow of heart. Soon we shall contribute our knowledge and skill To make better this plight which threatens our will. Through twelve long years of toil and hard work, NVQ-'ve shouldered a burden, which now we can- not shirk. lVe,ll set forth in this world with memories sub- lime, And parting leave behind us, footprints on the sands of timef'

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Blue and Gold 11 Burton--NVe give you this special permit to have a certain Senior girl help yon in tending your Fatherls gas station. l3a1'19arf1 G.-You have studied the dictionary so hard that we have decided to purchase a new one for yon. We are therefore collecting funds for the new one, and as a beginning I make this offering of one cent, and trust that the rest of the class will be even more generous. V George-M. G. M. awards you this contract to be leading star in their new picture--ulanetv. Nancy M.-VVe give you this book, 'iHow To Put on a Fine Complexionfi lVayne-WVlien We found one of our class- mates arrayed in the traditional white coat, cap, and apron with the honorable insignia of the cook, we all shouted, uHurrahl'i As a token of the appreciation from his classmates, we give you a frying pan in hopes that you may always have something to fry. Bernitu-WVe give you two tickets to New York since you didnit come with us. WVe hope that you will make good use of them as We had a swell time while we were there. David B.-NV e give you this hickory stick in case you have to use one on your pupils, after you become a teacher. Doris-NVe give you this alarm clock so that when you start at Eastern Nazarene College you will be able to get to all of your classes on time. Ruth-VVe give you this big private car to go to New York with and take in all the things that you missed on your class trip. Norma-Since you have so many beans we give you this date book to keep your engage- ments straight. See that you use it. Carol-We give you a ticket on the Circle Line Sightseeing Boat around New York. This will make up the loss when you were Hower hunting. Barham S.-We give yon this pair of blinders so your eyes wonit wander from one boy to a11- other. Nrmcj B.-XVe give you our box of old shoes which you may need soon. Your friends can tie them on a car which will be marked ulust Mar- riedf' Testator: In witness thereof, we the Senior Class of 1951 have set our hands this fifth day of june, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Hfty-one. Signed: lJOROTHY DUBUQUE RUTH VILLEBIAIRE LAURETTE ROUSSIN BETTY' SCRIHNER GEORGE WHITE YATES ROUSSEAU

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Blue and Gold 13 azledzk ary vunnumnmm uuuuIunnnniiIiInnIIIIInum-uniimmmmIIinmnmumnmnu munnmumunnnuunnnnnmnmn inannumIIuvuI41uumnmminnunnnumniunnumuunnnnwmu YESTERDAY GUIDES TOMORROW By Barbara Gonyeau Lost Memory Found! Man Recovers ldentity! Amnesia Victim Returns to Arms of Familylv Red and black headlines scream forth the glad tidings, and readers throughout a commu- nity let out a sigh of relief. For, of all the mala- dies that can befall mankind, none is more shock- ing to the victim than sudden loss of memory. VVithout a past and robbed of identity, he is the epitome of despair. I can think of no more dramatic illustration of the vital part that a knowledge of the past plays in our daily lives. VVithout it, we are as a new-born babe dependent upon instinct, with no experience on which to base sound iudgment, no understanding of cause or effect, no fact on which to guide our future. In this light, history is not a by-product of civilization. It is a sixth sense without which we cannot function! Ralph VValdo Emerson has declared that 'fthe use of history is to give value to the present hour and its dutyf and pithier words were never phrased. Noah Wfebster, or one of the heirs to his magic with a dictionary, defines history as a narrative of eventsv and, armed with this defini- tion, we come to see that all of us are alternately reading and writing history every day of our lives. Today we are again defending our freedom extends across our land on a battlefield that from sea to shining seafp lt reaches to every doorstep where communist propaganda in all its insidious forms and under the most artful dis- guises is seeking to destroy our freedom by un- dermining our faith in the principles on which our government was founded. How grave is the danger of this all-out attack against us is best told in the words of Bernard Baruch. bersonal adviser to our presidents through six administra- tions: If we lose, we lose foreverf, KVe can best combat this attempt to destroy our freedom by gaining from our American his- tory a clear understanding of the principles on which our government was founded, by learn- ing of the long struggle, the privations and hard- ships that had to be endured before those prin- ciples could be established. Then we will have a true appreciation of the freedom we enioy, and we will be of a firm mind to defend it. And only the staunchest firmness will match the fanatical determination of the plotters who seek to under- mine us. So let us turn to the history of the United States as the effective antidote for the poison of communist propaganda. And while we are about it, letis read again the Declaration of In- dependence and the Constitution of the United States to remind ourselves that All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happinessf, Letps not wait until our apprecia- tion of these inalienable rights is tempered by the despair of losing them. Letis bear in mind that once again Uthese are the times that try menis soulsf, and that the enemy who would des- troy those rights is one who denies the very exis- tence of the soul. Thomas Paine's prophetic words should be written today across the blackboards of every schoolroom in our country. Then we need not fear that these propaganda attacks will ever sub- ject us to the humiliation of having our speech dictated by the group of ruthless political plot- ters whose sole aim is power for themselves and slavery for the rest of the world. So it is that the events of yesterday and today will guide to- morrow. Therefore we need a knowledge not only of the past but we need to give our best to today. VVe are drawn together here tonight to say farewell,'. And, departing, leave behind us. footprints in the sands of time.