Polk High School - Cub Yearbook (Polk, NE)

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TRESIS GOLDEN DAYS Dear Friends: e might stop to catalog you -js school officials, teachers, parents, visitors and friends. Dut that seems scarcely nec- essary, for the very fact that you have taken tine from busy and full lives to cone here to show your interest in us—the graduating class of Yolk High School, of 1946, i3 proof positive that you are our friends. as spokesman of this class, I voice its earnest sentiment when I say that we are rich indeed to have so goodly a number of those .i.o have watched our ro.ress, regretted our failures, kept on having faith in us when we struggled toour feet again, and who are here tonight to rejoice that we have finally made the grade. We are sure it gives you satisfaction, as it does us, that we have finished what -..e. started, and have earned certificates which attest to that fact and which entitle us to go forward to the commencement of larger things. he welcome you here tonight, and v.e hops you will feel re- paid for coming, if no more than by to.e knowledge that we, the cl ss of 1946 feel highly honored by your interest and presence, he shall go forward always knowing that you are our friends; that you will still watch what wa are doing, and how well we are doing it, and be ready to rejoice with us when the boys and girls of this dear old school' reflect glory upon it by the worthy part we are able to takp in the world's work, :-.nd wo want you to remember that whatever we undei'take will bo bitter done anu more conscientiously and intelligently per- formed because you have been and are our friends. We know full well that we are young and inexperienced and immature. Ye oannot help that. Time alone will remedy all this--and we are not wish- in; the precious golden days away, for v.e love our youth ana its privileges and opportunities ana dreams--even as you did in the days of long ago. And wo i;Opc that some time we shall foregather in this same spot, to talk and 1-ugh over the reminiscences of the days now drawing to a close—and that you may meat van us--for '..iw.ca. you, our friends, that gathering would not be complete. We groat you gladly. We are indeed honored by your presence. We hops you will have found it good to be hero; And may all future classes graduating from Polk High School be as favored as we have been with such good friends’ • o ore now on our way: Not finished; Just Ba0inr.ing. —Phyllis Peterson