Saugerties High School - Sawyer Yearbook (Saugerties, NY)

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JOSEPH STYCOS President of Class of '44 Salutatorian PATRICIA I-IACKETT RUTH GRANWEHR Sec1'0ta1'y xf'klI9dICI01'I'll.11 VIRGINIA MASON TI'6HSllI'6l' MISS N. LEONA HOGA Class Adviser ETHEL STAY Vice-President

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SALUTATORY The easier part of life is over. We are past the mole hills, and the mountains are yet t.o be scaled-mountains that are big as any ever faced by a class. We hope that we are ready to climb, and we are confident that our teachers have given us ade- quate preparation. There is no way at this time that we can sufficiently thank our teachers for their efforts. Such things can be answered only by what we do in the future and not what we say now. We are grateful to the Board of Education for providing us with such a competent staff. Our parents have guided us, our friends encouraged us. To all of you we are deeply grateful. Tonight our class meets for the last time as a group. Tonight this group greets you -and bids you welcome to our commencement exercises. JOSEPH M. STYCOS VALEDICTORY For four years, we have been visualizing and .awaiting Commencement, the night when we would start showing an eagerly waiting world that we are .ready to make it a better place. On that night, we would cease being the concern only of our families, teachers, and friends, and a bored, listless public would become our animated co- workers. Suddenly, it's commencement, our night-to do what? The question where to go from here arises in our minds. The question is not too difficult to answer-circumstances have decided the des- tiny, at least for a few ye-ars, of some of the members of our class. However, the question of how to go about living as an intelligent adult, remains. We have received what is termed a liberal education in subject matter as well as -actual practice'in leadership and good citizenship. Now, when we are placed in situations, especially those forced on graduates by the war, we wonder if our educa- tion should have included rifle practice rather than Shakespeare or a study of lma- chines rather th-an the Constitution. We must realize, however, that the diversity of our education will enable it to come t.o our aid in any of various activities. Huxley has defined a liberal education as one which trains the body to serve the will readily, and the education which we h-ave acquired in high school fits t.he description. We have learned in our various courses the standards that others have attained and the methods that will enable us to maintain these standards. In -all our courses, without realizing it, we have been learning how to live intelligently, subjecting our actions to our wills at all times and in all situations. Now we realize th-at tonight is truly our night, not to start displaying our tal- ents as we had been planning, but to begin molding them to the world's requirements as high school has taught us. RUTH GRANWEHR WE ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE We have had but to ask, From their books and minds, they have given, We had only to seek culture, In school, they have shown us. Taught, inspired, shown, Now we must move on- a Out to meet destination we go, To find success or failure as we choose, To struggle with impartial fate, To convince an indifferent world, Dazed by problems unknown, Still we must go on- t Over harsh mountains of struggle Guided by education, We will scale the heights of uncertainty To view our hard-earned reward. Dazzled by this promise We turn to go- 4 The present can only challenge, And obscure our distant goal, In darkness, we accept the challenge To climb the mountain for stars The future is at hand, Eagerly we reach out- by RUTH GRANWEHR CClass Poeml