Robert E Lee Institute - Rebel Yearbook (Thomaston, GA)

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- ,iz 1 1 Q '74eP 3 wade To the Class of 1956 Once again it becomes necessary for me to give you a message of farewell and once again ll 1S very difficult to dlstlll from all the ocean of ldC3S that surround us one slngle message of more importance than the rest I believe, however that IH these tragic times with the world and our countrv 1 mld passage of the twentieth century when the future IS perched on the hinge fate that our greatest need IS for a correct sense of values a priority of flrsts sense of the lmportance of things 3 These are times of unprecedented prosperity times which some thmk destined continue lndeflnltely One cannot but hope that this IS true, but it IS not the lesson that history teaches In times of plenty all of us are likely to place undue value on externals appearances tangibles and the things that wealth posltion and reputation alone can secure yet these alone are not enough I am prompted to make these statements bcause the Christmas lssue of LIFE magazine carried pictures of one hundred dollar suits of armor for six year old boys hundred dollar gift of a similarly frivolous nature! IS receiving an unhealthv sense of values at a tender age This IS mdeed terrible training for the world of reality he will llve in Over two thousand years ago there liyed in Rome the family of the Cracchl Times were prosperous and yet decadent as often happens The mother of the GTaCChl brothers Tlberlus and Galus had friends visiting her The WISIIOFS were ostentatlously d1splaymg their jewels When the guests asked the mother to show her jewels she called to her Slde her two sons These are my Jewels she said Years later these sons first Tiberius and then Galus lost their Ines fighting for the rights of the Roman people against their oppressors To the Class of 06 it might he pertinent to ask What are your yewelso KENNETH J 'VIOORL . 7 . . . . 1 .n 1 - u i ' ' l 7 . . V, . V . . . to Any boy who received a hundred dollar suit of armor for Christmas tor any one y . - ' as 7 ' V 97 - I at- . . . H y V . v ,,

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