Sherman High School - Spud Yearbook (Sherman, ME)

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From the Declaration of Independence, I ouote the famous statement that all men are created equal' Of course we realize that all people are not equal in eyery sense of the word They cannot all have an equa abillty, Intelligence, health, and wealth, but they can and do have an equal opportunity with all other men to make the most of the talent each possesses 'America is another name for Opportunityu, said Emerson. Another of our 'Inalienable Rightsn is the WPursu1t of Happlnessn itself Everyone has his own ideas about happiness, ideas which are not all the same For some people wealth and power spell happiness For others fame in their chosen fields is their goal From the most simple to the highest of ambitions, each and exery person has his or her own idea of happiness. Still another of our rights is Life This means that no person can dellberately take the life of another for any reason wlthout first belng given an opportunity to defend himself at a trlal During the Middle Ages people were executed without trial or little or no reason to live unless it is proved that or liberty of another person at all Today everyone has the right he or she is interfering with the life Democracy, the form of government for its life today, It is, as Lincoln le by the people, and for the people in which we believe, is flghting said, Wa government of the peop- W It is stated in the Declara the consent of the governedn In other word the people give the gov ernment the power to exercise control over themselves Leaders are servants and not masters The true meaning of democracy is that of flnding out what the majority of the people want and doing it Thus, when yon.use the expres ion, Wthe ideals of our country,Wyou probably mean at least these four things liberty, equality, the right to the pursult of happiness, and democracy The symbol of these ideals is our flag, which means more th n association and reward It is the symbol of our natlonal unity, of our national endeavor, and of out nat ional aspiration Classmates Let us not forget what the ideals of our country are and what they mean to us The ideals for which Washington, Jefferson, and all of our early leaders fought must not be disregarded Today, more than ever before, we need to keep the shinlng light of democracy burnlng in this world of war nd suffering We must also remember to use as a guide through the coming years, our class motto nForward ever backward never U When we chose this for our motto, we were thlnking not only of each other, but also of the democracies of the world We have spent four happy years together We have worked together and played together, and we have tried to do a good job bot? in our fork and in our play To some this is a sad event, this breaking of ol tles To others who are of a changing or novelty loving temperament an entire change of surroundings is a pleasure In after years when the name of each member of this class is mentioned may our teachers,parents and friends say with a proud light in their eyes. I CA n ' 1 ' O ' .,4' . ,,,. ,,, .L 4. ' ' - . ' . 5 I I 3 - 4 0 H ' O 4- O T . . J M F , C I Y . J f 0 ' tion of Independence---that governments nderive their just powers from 0 S . - O . 3 . . . .. . s . : 1 . 7 O fl 0 O O - 4' A A - O . 3 . o ' ' U . . C L Y' Q W -1 . . u I

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W U 2 any 5 wifi wer e e a 1MUPIC N IU LS Je, the graduating class of l94l, have arrived at the gate of portunity, which stands open before us We have arrived at a goal for which we should thank our parents and instructors as you already Know our graduating exercises have been built round the central theme Nlhat our Country Means to Usn Our part in this program will be about the Ideals of the American people This is a sub Ject which should be of interest to all people because it deeply con cerns all people There is not a single person in our country who not in some way affected by some of these ideals, if not by all of them The Declaration of Independence, th t famous document in which we declared ourselves free and independent from Wngland, states HThat all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with cer tain inalienable Rights that among thes re Life, Liberty, an the Pursuit of Happin ssn Of these ideals we have spoken and written most about lib rty Washington said that HLovc of liberty ne ds no recommendations because it is in the hearts of alln In the Virginia legislature Just before the Revolutionary Jar Patrick Henry declared HGIVG me liberty give me deathn. what is this liberty? One definition is that it is the right to do what we wish as long as it does not interfere with the liberty of others. There are several kinds of liberty: personal liberty, that is, freedom from slavery, religious libertyg the right to help in the mak- ing and running of one's government, civil liberty, which means, free- dom from interference by the government with one's private conduct as long as it does not menace the conduct of others, national liberty or freedom from Gppression. Civil liberty is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence which saysg Nthat to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governedn, The constitution, that set of laws by which the poo ple of the United States are governed, contains statements which insure political and rcligous freedom. . . I .I -531,3 P - Q f Q 1. 6' 3 I E an W N L7 95' a 2 , - Q ll, P I A Qggg . V 4. . A ' J xy- L -4 ' ' - Qpl. ' . ' Q ' ' 1 f . ' I , , . . . au vi YL A ' I . V ,- , ' ' . ' I A ' is c A ' U 'I D AJ 0 I I I Y 9 S 0 I .- '.x 3 .1 ' x d . C o ' x 'z , ' ' ' G 0 I, . . A . O E . . . ' . . . . .

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O, yes, he or she wee, Ilnm proud to say, a member of the class of 1941. Speaking our last'goodby as a class wekwishitheebestjef luck to those who take our place. May this school mean as much to them in the future as it has to us in the past. Tonight may be the last time that we are all together classmates and although we may drift apart, let us not say, Hgoodbyen, but merely Till Je meet againu. Yritten by Mary Bushey '41 Dalivered by Jacqueline Lane '41 ,. eaueujgireum .TE-se THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY Friend relatives and teachers, we the graduating class of 1941, extend to you our heartiest welcome to the e our graduation exercises, xhich mark the compl tion of our work at Sherman High School, Tonight our program is centered around the subgect nWhat Our Coum try Means To Us This subgeet is divided into four principle parts Our government, our land, our people, and our ideals Let us for the next few minutes eonsid r the government of this country, the land and its people A large percentage of the e people are of foreign nationality, a fact that can be accounted for if we go back over four hundred years to the time fhen Columbus sailed aero s the Atlantic Ocean and dis colonists gradually took posses ion of the land, forcing the Indians estward The appearance of village and cities gradually led to the organization of the thirteen original colonies There was only one thing yronv Jith this New world and that was a lack of voice in the government American are liberty loving people was not that the reason that they had come to America? But they were still under the power of England rho ruled them in a tyrannical way, In 1775, came the Revolutionary war in Jhich American Colonists fought and obtained their fieedom, George Nashineton Jas th n elected the first president of the United States. This was the be inning of a new Democratic nation. 1,1 t 'i ,i 4, 44- 1 :: ' I e453 , 1 3 , Q 1: , Qi' S 1 7 - I 0 . r ' ' S -I ' - G ' r . J lh ' , - . L O J 0 ' ' 0 . z , . . G J O A , ., . , S A F . ' Y -7 ' 1' VV' S I - 1 covered a New World. Other explorers came to the New World and later . , S. A . iv . ' 4 - ' s ' ' .Q . A . ' n 1 ' W O V ' W W 1 . ' ' 0 S ' v ' I lan ' T . A I h V4 O V' X: O CJ . , 1 fu ' ' O xi' C ., 'N , . A 4 N f S ,