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Page 11 text:
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Posterity Right now the words Our Posterity are empty sounding and nearly meaningless to us. We have no posterity now; they will not come for a long time. However, everything we do will have its effect on those who are yet to come. We are about to go out on our own; to make our lives. We will have children, grand- children, great-grandchildren. These are our posterity, and we will do our best to make for them a better place in which to live. We will try to gain world peace; to master disease; to create real friendship; to solve the mysteries of science. We will strive to do away with physical labor through auto- mation—not just for ourselves, but for our posterity. Our knowledge will be carefully searched, expanded, and preserved for the genera- tions which will come. Our society will be refined and altered to give the best of all we have to our children. And we will endeavor to make things much easier for them that it has been for us. But it is also important that we leave for them our Ameri- can tradition of courage, per- serverance, friendship, and democracy. We must give them self respect, confidence, insight, love. We must pre- serve the energetic, untiring strength which made this country free and in the lead of the world. In a word, we will leave all that we received, and more for those who will be-- our posterity.
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Page 10 text:
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With only a few days and hours left of our high school years, we seek the future. We plan happily, and then wait to see just how closly our dreams will come to being realized. Our futures will all be dif- ferent, and will all be what we make them. Some of us will succeed grandly; most of us will be average Americans. We will spread all over the nation, even all over the world, and some will never return. Then, after five, or ten, or maybe twenty-five years, we will have a classre- union and compare notes with the kids we used to go to school with. Some of our numbers will become professionals; some, students at colleges or univer- sities; some will enter the service. Nearly all will marry, and of those who do, most will become parents. Life will be very short for a few, and very long for others, but most will live the three score and ten alloted us. The men will hunt, fish, build do-it-yourself projects, join service clubs, work or just loaf. The women will raise children, have careers, join auxiliaries to the service clubs, host Stanley Parties, work, or just loaf also. Some will travel to the ends of the Earth; some will never go more than a hundred miles from Sacramento. We will take over the P.T.A., the businesses, the churches, and do those things which the older generation now do. We will champion the March of Dimes, the Girl Scouts, the local bond issues. We will vote, and choose who will run the town, county, state and nation. And we will fight bitterly against anything which threatens our peace or prosperity. No matter what we do, all our efforts will be in the end directed at making things as good as possible for us and our posterity.
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