Norristown Area High School - Spice Yearbook (Norristown, PA)

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-s.. Members of the Class of 1960 By the tume you read thus page of Spuce you wull have completed all of your acaclemuc requurements for graduo tuon Only two prerequusutes remaun baccalaureate and commencement Many tumes hugh school students loborung under a musapprehensuon of fact consuder commencement as the end of educatuon un theur luves Thus us really not the case Commencement for hugh school students us only the culmunatuon of twelve years of school work whuch us the broad basuc foundatuon or preporotuon for lufe Actually commencement should be the unfoldung of a broader horuzon pushung back the loothulls and revealung the goal upon whuch one's eyes must be set other phase of our economuc lufe-always keep un mund that you have an oblugotuon to fulfill to yourself and to socuety Thus message wull be the last one guven formally by me to you the members of the Class of 1960 Therefore I should luke to challenge you to accept the responsubulutues of lufe as they present themselves to take advantage of opportunutues when they aruse to apply yourself wuth dulugence at all tumes to struve contunuolly to overcome all ob stacles and flnally to realuze that uf you wush to ochueve you must mauntaun o posutuve approach as you face the problems and seek the proper solutuons Each year as a class prepares for graduatuon we are warned that the natuon faces some grave problem These statements must be predicated upon the ossumptuon that the youth of the natuon mught not be able to meet the chal lenges whuch present themselves I am convunced that as long as the graduatung youth of the natuon retaun theur be luef un God and are deducated to the proposutuon that each one us the master of hus fate and the captaun of hus soul there wull be no need to fear the problems facung the present generatuon I consuder the sponsorshup of thus class as one of the hughlughts of my teachung career I have enloyed workung wuth the officers the Congress and the members of the class un tryung to solve the problems that faced us durung the post three years and reflect wuth pleasure on the memorues of the assemblues the proms, and the banquet May I express my best wushes to all of you for a happy and prosperous future ' . I . . I . . . . . . O I Regardless of your calling-whether it be to college, and then a profession, the business world, a trade, or any . . . I I I . . . , . . . . I . . - 1 I .... V . . . . I I . . . . . I I ,