Reese High School - Rocket Yearbook (Reese, MI)

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ALUTATOTY ADDRE Members of the School Board, Teacher? Parent? and Friend? On behalf of Graduation Class of 1.G45 I v?e extend to you a most heartfelt welcome to the exJ ercisee which mark another Milestone in the lives oa the graduates. Many persons wonder why we call gradJ nation commencement when it is really the ending of I a course of study It is because it marks the begirj ning of the actual work of life. Prior to gradual tion- the student is only preparing for future work j and so wo can truthfully say that graduation is a beginning; not an ending 0 Bor twelve years, the student looks forward to I the end of hi?- course and feels that when he carrleaj aw ay his diploma a large share of his life work will be finished. When that day at last approaches, his ] mind has teen trained and broadened and he commenced to realize that the difficult period of life is justl approaching The lofcg years he ban spent in prepa-M ration have fitted him, to some extent, for future it sponsibilities tut when commencement exercises are over, the average student stands and faces the un¬ certainty of the future and asks himself, what next?] It. is the trying time of life. The association of year? are about to be broken and the life of the school-room and books is to be radically changed. No wonder the first few weeks in this new life are lonely as he looks about to see what course to persii next in order to make his life a success,.. Success is a difficult word to define and the brightest men in the world differ radidaliy in ooini one concerning it 0 Perhaps this is as good a dif- initial as any: ' ' Making the most of one ' s ooport- unity l! If ail men tried to achieve success along the same lines, the world would not oe as good as itJ is Every mar should try to achieve success along some line. Though possibilities vhicn seem to lie ahead of him might not seem worthwhile One of the ties iiirv of c ur economic system is that eec:i cnc reap? tbo reward of his own efforts! It is for this reason that we find the lazy in¬ dolent person so ufeen wants the a 1th of the world divided up anc each one secure or canal share of all r not reat cam This thought divide

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8AI.UTATOKY con ious people who do more than et.Lve work and wish to be re¬ nd those who d» less than thefr cure Pome of the fruit? of •• e c : nf u..i cting ideas are being or the civilized vorld u o one a living but if owes 1 -5 Do earn a living, a difficult. or.e and only nmurage hardships and pi¬ th-;. contest can over ' reach the etimes. we m e one who has pi ' o vln : . ’tumble blindly into the thought .: e o ones are apt?: ample me :ru» ' t to blind luck C23tJ« hey are t heir ohoc th se i:oo• •• -r i i iliOo x n near 1 y ev J n dl eusi. fail m e 0 un -.rno are to indolent to prepare well ir. 3 ' r of life often say that they will e op t r of the memenf 0 Some- one has said, e crocks once at every inarms door and if bio tc take adveneeg of the opportunity r one may never re turn« 7he one who wait prepare mmenee cLose wilt Where Hii man In ail thar