Pembroke Academy - Academian Yearbook (Pembroke, NH)

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LUELLA MARIE BLRKESLEE I know not what the success will be, but the attempt I vow Radiant, resourceful, and radical is our gal Lue. Continually in- volved in some perplexing situation, she thrives on her ability to make both ends meet--no matter how impossible it seems to the rest of us. Aside from tremendous scholastic achievements, Lua has shown her versatility in dramatics and sports, she's our jack of all trades, and how she manages to do so much with so little time amazes everyone. Always busy, but never too occupied to help a friend, we'll never forget her no matter how far the foreign service may take her. So Lue, in your travels, remember that you have your class of '58 wishing you the very best of everything. Valedictoriang secretary 1,2,3, basketball 2,3,4 fco-captainjg general chorus 1, double quartette 1, senior play, winter carnival l,2,3 Qqueenl, 45 assemblies 1,33 prom 3 fco -chairman decorationsj, 49 memory prize speaking 1,2 Q3rdj, 3 Q4thj, 4 flstjg state speech touma- ment 2,33 secretary-athletic association 4, Hi-Y 2, yearbook business manager 45 original prize speaking 4. VALEDICTORY Tonight we forty -seven students are here because society decrees that twelve years of schooling is terminated by a ceremony called high school graduation. However, there is much more meaning to graduation than simply that, for during these past twelve years, and especially these four at Pembroke, Academy, we have had numerous challenges to meet, before reaching this point. Most of us have met them successfully. What were these challenges? We faced the challenges of growing up, of accepting new ideas, and learning responsibility. . .the responsibility of making the best of that which was offered to us by our teachers. We faced challenges,not only academically and socially, but also in athletics. Socially, we had to learn how to conduct ourselves in the right way and to consider the other person. We were responsible for our actions. We had to shed our selfish feelings and work for the better of the group and team. A very important fact we learned was that we get out of something only what we put into it. This knowledge inspired initiative and competition. To reach our goals, whether they were success on the basketball court or good marks, we learned that perseverance worked best. Unlike our younger days, there was not always an older person to pull the strings that made us work. Instead, we were equipped with strings and guided to use them to the best advantage. How we did pull them de- termined our success. These are but a few of the challenges we have met. But even though graduation has come, we have not yet met all our challenges. For, upon leaving high school and entering life, we shall meet still greater challenges. Especially in this period of time, there is a great challenge that at times seems to be obscured. . . one that Americans cannot always clearly see nor fully understand. As adult Americans, we must now face it. Because we had the good fortune to be born Americans, we were born with a silver spoon in our mouths. . .a silver spoon called Democracy. It is a wonderful word, practiced in a wonderful place, a place abounding in opportunity, believing in freedom, harboring all races and peoples. This is America. We even have a beautiful flag and a statue of liberty to keep us ever mindful of this heritage. This heritage was handed to us at birth. Perhaps we received it too easily. . .we didn't have to work for it. And our greatest challenge now is to keep that spoon shiny and not let it tarnish. This, all Americans are not aware of. We have been living in the state of glory which our great nation has achieved. That glory is the highest, for we are ahead of all other nations in this world. But now we have taken a breather, just a rest, to enjoy all our gains, gains which no other nation has surpassed. There is the popular feeling that we are the best, and we feel very comfortable about it, and because we are the best, many seem to think we now have no more goals for which to strive. But how wrong they are! Now 10