Springfield High School - Resume Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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THE RESUME NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX SENIOR HIGH 'SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI VOLUME FORTY-TWO

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FOIQIT ODD The future belongs to those who prepare for It That statement was never more approprIate to the tImes than now HIgh school graduates of today are goIng Into a world of opportunIty and challenge never before even remotely approached lt IS a world of such vast propor tIons as to overwhelm those of lIttle spIrIt yet of such narrowed dIstances as to make all natIons neIghbors Our grandfathers developed a natIon of lImItless geo graphIcal frontIers Our fathers buIlt a gIgantIc sc entIfIc and economlc empIre Our generatIon faces the most In Splflng adventure of all that of conquerIng the hItherto untamed man S Inhumanlty to man Today we take a hIgh standard of lIVlHg for granted We accept as commonplace machInes and Instruments whIch render meanIngless the factors of dIstance gravIty tIme and space Our IndustrIal agrIcultural and com mercIal organIzatIons constantly produce more and more wIth less and less effort Yet we have not approached a The pages of hlstory are blotted wIth tales of greed cruelty selfIsh natIonalIsm and dIsregard for others all en compassed In the fnghtful parentheses of constantly Im proved means of wagIng war The restrIctIve arms of mass destructIon are now stranglIng the very roots of ClVllI zatIon We have no choIce Elther we unIte to develop the scIence of human relatIons or the SCICHCQ of human slaughter wIll destroy us Our generatIon faces the most InspIrIng adventure of all that of harnessIng man s scIentIfIc powers for man s well beIng Other generatIons have conquered wIlder nesses oceans cold heat and want We have the op portunIty of tammg mans worst enemy man hImself Our reward for success wIll be a full realIzatIon of what the word cIvIlIzatIon mIght mean We are Indeed pItIfuI sons of a magnIfIcent IIne If we faIl to recognIze the tre mendous Import of the moment and prepare well for a fu ture worthy of our opportunItIes john W Gates Y Y solution of the problems of human relationships.