Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream-and not make dreams your master, If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposter just the same, If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools, If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss, If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve you turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on! If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, all men count with you, but none too much, you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty second's worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son! Or If If If Rudyard Kipling

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CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES WITH A BIT OF ADVICE I appreciate the opportunity of congratulating the Class of l949 of the Standish High School on the successful con- clusion of your four year's work. You are arriving at commencement, that time when you may look back with satisfact- ion on a job well done and look forward to a new world to conquest. No one can know what the future holds for anyone, but if one does one's best whatever the circumstances then we know that we can look to the Ultimate Examination with confidence that we will graduate. The most unsatisfactory phase of life is that we cannot know what to learn or what to prepare for. if we could only know all the parts we were to play we could study the score. I had plans to be an engineer, yes, I planned to be the best engineer living. I studies hard, and being slow-witted it was hard work, Civil nngineering at University of Maine, Mechanical Engineering at Yale, then with a war on Uncle Sam sent me to University of Texas to study Aeronautical Engineer ing. But now by a twist of fate I am in the State Senate try- ing to help my fellow man. All that training is helpful but not conventional for one in public life. You also may have as varied a career, so learn all you can. You L9'ers will soon be out trying to make this a better world. There is much room for improvement. Remember that if you do not keep moving ahead you will fall behind as every- thing else is moving forward. ' Our Town of Standish is spending more than half of our tax money on education because we, the citizens, are still in hopes that by so doinj we will give into your hands the tools to'build this better world. You will not let us down. Take an interest in your government, local, state and national. It is the best form of government so far designed even though it is far from perfect and far from efficient. It is easy to criti- cize a man who is trying to do somethingg but if you really desire to help, don't criticize, go and do the job better your self. Show by example how it should be done. Also, don't worry when you are unjustly criticized, for they don't shoot at a dead lion. Memorize and try to live the precepts in Kipling's poem Wlfn. Poor Alexander wept that there were Uno more worlds to conquer' when all that was known were the lands around the Mediterranean. You have already learned more than he or any- one'living in his time. Now at this Commencement resolve that henceforth you will count the day lost that, when you lie down for sleep, you cannot to yourself say, WI learned one new thing today that will help me make this world a better place to live inn. Then you, if you do the best that.isiin you, can be assured that on the final report card God will give an UAW for Effort. May he help you to this end. Paul Frederick Slocum