Montgomery Local High School - Mohirab Yearbook (Wayne, OH)

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MHS VALEDICTORY People who are unconcerned about the future have been compared to a flitting butterfly or to a chirping cricket with not a care in all the world. The ancient writer of Holy Writ says: NGO tb the ant, thou sluggardlu The time when young people must earn a livelihood comes only too soon. Sometimes parents make a choice for their children. If the choice has been the right one, very good, however, it can happen that the choice was all wrong, causing disappointment to both parents and children. Many young people take a defeatist attitude when con- fronted with the important question of choosing an occupa- tion. They may set their goal too high and say, Nwhat chance have I to accomplish my wish? My parents cannot afford to send me to college, and without a proper education I have no opportunity for advancement.n In the first place, many of our successful men and women had no college education, and in the second place, many who have acquired a college educa- tion paid for it through their own efforts. To achieve the goal is not easy, for the road to success has always been strewn with hard work, sacrifice and disap- pointment. However, America still is the land of opportunity and every boy and girl has the right to choose his or her vocation. ' When youth chooses a vocation, it is well to carefully consider the extent of one's ability. The ancient philoso- pher, Socrates, said, nKnow thyself.u Either to or to underestimate ono's ability may result in wrong vocation. The proper advice and guidance is important. A trusted parent or teacher can overestimate choosing the of superiors often assist us in steering our ability into the proper channel. We must also make a careful survey of our own physical and mental capacities in choosing our life's work. It takes courage to make a choice. It even takes courage to look into the future and plan with others, what means you may choose to make a living. The courageous flyer, Amelia Earhart, wrote: uCourage is the price that life exacts for -granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things, each time we make a choice we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.n When we seriously think about our vocation, we cannot expect success if we daydream. We cannot be forever pitying ourselves and envying the other fellow. We must be realists knowing our limitations, but also having the firm determin- ation that we will follow through whatever we have under- taken. Neither will we blindly and stubbornly refuse the give, for there are us than a Ngoodn advice and information that others can many who are better qualified to help friend, who may always be fluttering us. nlt takes a little courage and a little self-control, and ation if you want to reach the goal. striving and a firm and stern-set chin, battle, if you're really out to win.n some grim determin- It takes a deal of no matter what the ----Bernice Shaffer

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MHS JUNIOR SENIOR PQJOEPTION IEWLAII will be awaiting you Place Montgomery High School Time--7:00 p.m. Date--May 2, l94l M E N U Pineapple Cocktail Wafers Baked Ham String Beans Relish Tray Thousand Island Salad Escalloped Potatoes Rolls Butter Coffee Cocoa Ice Cream Cake F R O G R A V Invocation . . . . . 0 I o Q n o o u Q a u l Guitar Solo--A Song of Old Hawaii Response . . . . . . . Vocal Solo--Blue Hawaii . . Toast . . . . . . . . . Rev. Richard P. Coad . . Ralph Kinsey . Barbara Pierce . Melvin Engle . James Gaines . Mr. Ingall Instrumental Duet . . . Ewald Farwig, Melvin Engle Toast . . . . . . . . Mr. Westmeyer Song of the Islands . . . Everyone Toast . . . Piano Solo . . Toast . . . Toastmaster . . . Miss Brubaker Hester Overmyer . Mary Rojewski Doris June Hedge

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MHS SALUTATORY Welcome, friends, to the last appearance of our class as a whole. This commencement is the culmination of twelve years of work under the guidance of a capable staff of teachers. We are thankful to these people for the help they have offered us, help which we have at times foolishly dis- regarded. Only time itself will make us realize how inter- ested these teachers were and are in our personal welfare. Through the advice and guidance of our teachers our petty problems have been successfully straightened out whenever they presented themselves. We feel that we also owe a great debt of gratitude to our parents and the people of the com- munity who through their encouragement and financial aid have made it possible for us to obtain an education. Through the community's desire for the finest education possible, we have an educational system that we may be proud of, one that is improving more and more as time goes on. Our school years will probably be the most enjoyable years of our lives, much more enjoyable than any of us will realize for some time. It is not that wo have purposely dis- regarded this happiness, nor have we been ungrateful, but our lives have been occupied with striving to fill these speedily passing hours with as mnny activities as is pos- sible. We have never fully grasped the full extent of our happiness until these last few hours of our senior year. After our graduation we face a whole new world--a world that is over changing, one which challenges us to become citizens of which our teachers and friends may be proud. If we have the courage to make 4 place in the world for oursel- ves and are ever striving to do our best, we will in some respect be able to repay our friends for the aid and kind- ness they have given us. Our aim in the future is to set up high our goal. When we gain our goal we hope to be citizens worthy of having graduated from Montgomery-Township High School. I thank you, parents, teachers, school board and friends, for the help and encouragement you have given us in all our activities and achievements. ----John Swihart .n-mln,