Rensselaer High School - Crest and Shield Yearbook (Rensselaer, NY)

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EDITORIALS REGRETS Another issue of the Oracle is Olll and everyone sighs thank goodness. So does the editor as a rule, but there is something about getting the last issue out that leaves a blank space. VVe go to school for an education in English, history, Latin, French and all the other subjects necessary in the world today. Nevertheless, these subjects can't teach us the capabilities of people in school, or from whom we can get material for a periodical. A person may not excel in school work, but do marvelous art workg he may not have the knack for getting that algebra problem, but he can write what's going on the field of sports: the smell of a chemistry lab may not be sweet perfume to some girls, but they have an imagination and can write stories that everyone enjoys. We learn all these things when we work on a school paper. The one thing I shall never forget, if my memory fails in everything else, is the pleasure I have enjoyed in being on the , Oracle staff. The cooperation given by the teachers and Mr. Clark has been an aid in making the Oracle a successful magazine. A staff that would work whenever you asked it, and the support of the whole school body is something to be thankful for. I wish with all sincerity that my successor and her staff will have the best of luck and success next year. , 4 HAPPY FUTURE Commencement time has come again and with it our necessary farewells to the Senior Class. We do not like to say Farewell! for we have only begun to appreciate our Seniors. Their quite natural condescension to us lower class- 111611 has sometimes rankled, but we realize now that it is the established right of Seniors to look down on the rest of school. It has always been done and, undoubtedly, when we become Seniors, we too shall be sophisticated and a self-important class. We regret only that next year they will no longer be here. To most of the world they are just another graduating class, just another group of sweet girl graduates and handsome young men with dip- lomas. To us they are much more than that. We wish the Senior Class all possible success in the great, wide, beautiful world which they are entering. Whether they go to college, to work, or home to recuperate, our affection and sincere good wishes for health, happiness, and a prosperous future go with them.

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YOU-THE FUTURE GENERATION We are now entering a world long inhabited by a busy people. That is, we are a new generation. Every year there is the birth of a set of graduates to add to the swirling crowd. Life started in a tiny stream which grew larger as we floated ong we drifted into a creek, deep in some places and shallow in other places. Finally the stream widened, and now we are facing the rapids. Few of us have any knowledge as to how we shall avoid the whirlpools. We may be able to pass them without falteringg we may crash into the rocks. In any case, we are a generation to guide future generations. As we shall be governing the world some day, it is our responsibility to be a success rather than a failure. Swimmers in the rivers and seas have helped and are helping us now as we approach the rapids. The one way we can show our gratitude to them is to aid future generations. Our teachers and parents who have guided us in streams should have the greater share of our thanks for their untiring coopera- tion and patience. Books written by past drifters in the sea gave us knowledge. Experience, another great teacher, has helped us, but we were quite dependent on the older generations. It is our duty to help the future generations. .Alia-Hfifidl .. ll ll 'll.fi'f' A' W