Oakwood School - Quercus Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Mk cfllllll W wtllllll Thou Shalt Love HIS IS my swan song an the QUERCUS mas much as It IS my prlvrlege to be graduatmg from Oakwood with the present sensor class The Class of 1955 56 IS one to whnch I am very proud to belong In thas sense and so what I say here wrll go to the very heart of the things rn whlch I belleve and to whrch I profoundly hope you wall give genuine conslderatnon as you form your own phllosophles of ltfe When Jesus the Jew of Nazareth was asked what was the secret of eternal lafe he answered wnth two great commandments whlch seem to me to be the dlstllled essence of the wisdom of rellglon and philosophy Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul with all thy strength and with all thy mlncl and thy neighbor as thyself It us my deepest belief that In thus statement IS contamed the best answer any of us may ns nothtng I can add to make It more slgnlficant I can however bear my own testumony to tts greatness and nts depth as I have found nt to be proved out In Irfe tame and tlme again It IS a light which never falls as a guide for darly llvlng My prayer for my clas IS that you too may learn wnth goy or comfort or challenge depending upon circumstance to walk an ts lght .P QV . 4, XL I Tl II . . I . - . , . , . . .. . - I . . i I I ' I a n 1 u - - recelve to the everlastrng questions of llfe. There a 1 a n 1 1 1 . . . . . I , , . . . . . , .. u . 3, . I I I l T I . . I . i 9