Robert E Lee High School - Leeway / Record Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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VALEDICTORY Jean Larner You have just heard, from the previous, the educational advantages of the youth of former years ; let us now consider the advantages which the youth of today has. The world today belongs to youth. It is said that, “Opportunity knocks but once.” Perhaps, but the boy or girl who is ambitious and willing can go far. Youth has the oppor¬ tunity to win in the modern world. Today many of the older people are stepping aside for the younger ones. We have heard much about President Roosevelt ' s plan for adding to the Supreme Court—the plan that calls for younger men. A child today is not just “seen and not heard”. He is allowed to voice his opinions and interests. His mind and body are developed at first in his home, his church, and his com¬ munity. Later they are further developed in the school where his teachers take an individual and personal interest in him. His parents give him the opportunity of music and dancing lessons, surround him with good books, a happy home life and genial companions. As he grows, his interests settle along one line and when he graduates from high school, he seeks further training for his life’s work. His parents, sometimes with a great sacrifice and effort, send him to college. Later, he stands, with his diploma, his education, his well-developed mind and body , looking forward, seeking eagerly what life holds for him. Age falls back, making way for youth, and if he has the ambition and the strength to put aside the many temptations along the way, he will reach the top. But what of the boys and girls who do not have the advantages of good parents, a happy home life and a college education? If they have the ambition and determination they can go through the public school, and then work their way through college; various govern¬ mental agencies have provided means by which the young may pleasantly and profitably help themselves. Or they may attend night schools which are now held in most large communities and are conducted by competent, sympathetic teachers. The C. C. C. organization has done a great work in developing young men, physically and morally, by developing their bodies and minds and by providing for them suitable entertainment and recreation. The Y. M. C. A. helps the young people in its community by providing entertainmetn and recreation which they could not, otherwise, receive from their homes. The number of vocations and of occupations open to the youth of the modern world is enormous. We live in an age of specialization; the vocations are divided and subdivided into many divisions and each division employs hundreds of people. A position in the smallest division may be just as important and carry as much responsibility as one in the largest. Each must do his part well and to the best of his ability, to have a successful unit. The field of medicine, for example, covers a large area. It no longer includes only the combined doctor and surgeon as it formerly did; it includes thousands of persons, who, day by day, are doing their part toward relieving the sick and suffering and freeing the world from dread diseases. There are large modern hospitals, furnished with adequate equipment, well-trained doctors and surgeons, nurses, dieticians, technicians. There is the chemical lab¬ oratory where extensive research work is carried on and preventatives and cures for the dreaded diseases, sought. There are X-ray specialists, bacteriologists, pharmacists, medical missionaries, social service workers, and numerou other, all connected with the field of medicine. It is the same with the other fields. We of today have the opportunity of selecting from this vast storehouse of occupations, one, for our life’s work. No longer are the professions the outstanding and most important vocations. The educated, trained, skilled bricklayer, architect, or civil engineer, holds just as respectable, and sometimes just as a high-paying, position as the doctor, lawyer, or teacher. We do not crowd out, or forget, the fine arts. If a youth has a special talent for music, sculpture, painting, writing, or the like, he should cultivate it and pursue it as his line of work. However, along with the opportunities the modern youth has in choosing his vocation, come his problems. Of course, he has to face and overcome his personal problems, but there are other problems, not only national, but universal, which affect the lives of everyone. The great wave of crime and with it, the terrible practise of kidnaping which has spread through¬ out the world, must be subdued; youth, with its freshness, strength and vitality, can oppose and aid in overcoming it. Youth faces industrial problems, strife between capitalists and labor, employers and employees, resulting in the strikes which have become so common. And with the distant rumblings of war and unrest among nations, youth faces the problem of the need of a world peace, the problem of securing good-will, treaties, and friendly relations among the nations of the world. ‘Time marches on”-—-Youth keeps apace. We, the youth of today, resolve to choose our life’s work carefully, to put our best into it, to face the great problems squarely and to make this a better world because we have lived in it.

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PAUL WELLINGTON MANLY Boys’ Chorus, ’37; Players’ Club, ’35-’37; Football, ’34-’36. JOHN SAMUEL COCKRELL Football, ’34-’36; Basketball, ’35-’37; Vice-President Hi-Y, ’36-’37. CHARLES EDWIN MOOMAW Sports Editor of Record, ’37; Bas¬ ketball, ’36-’37; Vice-President Boys’ Club, ’36-’37.

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