Patrick Henry High School - Orator Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Think back to the ancient days of your kindergarten round-up year, and do you remember your best friend spilling her milk in her lap and getting her cookies soggy? Or how about your first day of school? One boy cries all day for his mommy to come and bring him home, far from his new school-house which is so frightening to him. Remember third grade, second, or even first? I Bet a dollar you never thought the day would come when you would be a teenager. But it is here! You are growing up. Everybody gets sick of grown-ups telling them, just wait and see. Time goes by quickly ... You hardly need anyone to tell you anymore-you know that it is true. Kindergarten seems as though it were just a little while ago. But for kids these days in high school, it is more than ten years in their past. First grade was important because it transformed you from a scribbler to a shaky printer. You learned how to read and how to do addition. These were real accomplishments and your parents came to open house and admired your worksheets along with everything else your teacher made you do to keep you busy. Right? In second and third grades, you went on to much harder things and traded your shaky writing for now wobbly writing, did more math and more reading, studied where places were on maps, and made pictures out of paper and paste. What fun it was! Soon you passed through fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. But you were not babies anymore. By now, you knew your way around school. You were multiplying, dividing, reading the Hardy Boys books, and playing bombardment during recess. Then you were leaving grade school, and it was then that you first realized just how fast the time was going. You were now already in junior high with five or six classes a day. and no recess! But you felt so grown-up just being there compared to those little kids in grade school, just as you once were. And, at last, you are in high school. It is so big. There is so much going on around here. There are so many people, lots of them strangers to you. but when you graduate, so familiar. Can it really be almost over for you? Absolutely not. You and 1 have only started. The next step is the biggest, busiest school of them all - the school of life. You learn and graduate to the next stage, just hoping you will pass all of your tests. You do the best you possibly can. but you do flunk some and attempt again. Because this is the hardest school of them all. it is all right to flunk some. But when the time comes for you to graduate, you’ll have the perfect diploma to show for your work. Guess what you will have! But of course, it is maturity.