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The 1949 Academician symbolizes our four year journey through the Utica Free Academy. Now the long voyage is over and debarkation awaits us. We step to the land-the nebulous future. For many of us it is the termination of our education, for others it is a stepping stone to college, graduate study, or pro- fessional training. The adult world seems a bit frightening, it beckons, yet repels. We are hesitant about leaving our ship where we have been protected and happy. Now we must cope with reality. No one like our teachers in high school will stand beside us to advise and guide us. Individual decisions must be made, but their influence will spread beyond a sphere to become part of our country and even of the whole world. In one sense, we, the graduates of the Class of 1949, are pioneers as were the prospectors one hundred years ago. They sought material wealth, gold, whereas we seek mental and spiritual goods, scientific discoveries for the cure of cancer, infantile paralysis, protection from the atom bomb. May we succeed in our de- sires as did the 49ersl Graduation day is also one of remeniscence. We approach a pinnacle and look back with regret and ahead with eagerness. We shall recall our triumphs as fresh- men. We found our way with difiiculty about the building and were confused by the Academy's individual system of numbering rooms, we struggled to get the many cards signed. We remember not only the hard work we encountered but also the fun that went along with it. Those geometry problems took hours to
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