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? c u C t MISS CHARLOTTE ISHAM Supervisor of Instruction MR. JOHN D. COOMBS Mathematics MR. CRAIG MATHESON English MR. KENNETH ARMINIO French, Latin MR. HERBERT MASON Biology, Chemistry MR. HERBERT GRANDAHL Mathematics, Physics
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TO THE CLASS OF 1957: This may be a strange valediction but we are living in strange times. All species, including our ancestors, have struggled for security since the dawn of time and we are as uncertain as ever that we have it. We forget that security never was and never can be guaranteed to a free people. No great set of Laws promises it. The Bill of Rights does not guarantee it. You are only sure of the opportunity of fighting for it. We are now trying for material security backed by military might. We have the military might which causes our enemies to be careful but it wins us few friends. We are fighting the Russians, but we have encountered Chinese in Korea and Arabs in the Middle East. How can Russians get Chinamen to fight for them when Communism is as foreign to Chinese culture as anything can be? How can the Mohammedans, who are more intense in their religious observance than the people of any of the great faiths, expect to survive after the Communists get what they are after? The real “secret” weapon which the Russians have is ideas. Truth, to them, is only what they want to convince other people to be the truth. The Ten Commandments, for them, come from the Kremlin and are changed at will to fit the people, the place, and the time. Knowing that emotion is far more powerful as a motive for action than reason, they play upon emotion. Over half the human race has a skin some shade other than white. The present cold war is a struggle for the minds of these people. In the minds of these people such concepts as Christianity and Democracy must prove more appealing than their opposites or lose out. “Nature abhors a vacuum,” I learned in high school science, and it is equally true in the realm of ideas. If you do not give your children some faith to which they can anchor, if you save money on the cost of public education by removing the tools they need to think with, you will create a vacuum and some group with a more fixed purpose will find a fertile field for their propaganda. Do not depend on the military might of the United States or any other nation. In the minds of men everywhere, we have to meet'with faith, as well as logic, the ideas that would destroy us.
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