another group of individuals most instrumental in the development of our young people in our great school district or the board of school directors in our central office personnel at this time a piece of the board of directors superintendent urso and today we stand at a crossroads at both the and the beginning after eight years of grade school and another four years of high school you look back to bid one final farewell to the friend with whom we grew toward maturity at the same time we look forward with great enthusiasm to a life of seemingly endless opportunities your dreams for the future are very different there is one common factor between the desire to be successful important parts of our growth as individuals but no one of these areas or even a combination of two or all three easily defined success in life similarly success in life is not the limited by how much money we make how important our job is to our company or community or how important other people think we are regardless of our talents well and social status they are meaningless if we don't put them to good found our true calling in life the search is short open many doors and allow us to explore many wonderful opportunities along the way however even after we find an area in which we can be successful our search has not  we must continue to expand our horizons never limiting our talents to one or few areas in which we excel however using one's innate abilities is only part of the equation for success hard work and the same throughout our lives to provide an example for others to follow the path will not be an easy one but the rewards will be immeasurable child inside it is in not spirit that we can see our four years together as a trip down the yellow brick road and high school as a journey through  however it is not really juvenile sense that i compare this childhood to our lives during these four years we have all at one time or another to me demonstrated a little scary and in need of like the scarecrow we came each day in search of knowledge wisdom and understanding but at times felt incapable strong relationships and learned to love we were like the tin man in search of  found herself in a new land we too have found ourselves in new and unfamiliar experiences using determination we worked hard at the understanding and accomplishment of our goal all along our courage intelligence love and understanding have grown from within now at this point in our journey we find ourselves in search of the wizard we find ourselves striving towards these great and powerful things college careers and life itself that seem larger than all of us life as we meet new challenges we may face hardship but i urge you to never give up and to never lose faith in the words of dr martin luther king ever let your life die out  certify that each member of the graduating class of one thousand nine hundred seventy have successfully completed the field the requirements for graduation set forth by the commonwealth of pennsylvania and the board of school directors commanded these role models today's heroes and role models are much tougher to find who should today's youth look up to certainly many of our politicians rock stars real business personalities and athletes should not be put in searching for an individual could help pattern your life after i consider it unnecessary to look very far but there are schools are many examples all janet ellie houston and dennis scott these teachers these teachers among others given give of themselves have strong values and a sense of responsibility what is not in question is when you start in the words of reverend billy graham that one of us at any age has a clue as to how long we will live you can't count for days but you can make  courtney michelle allison elizabeth beach jennifer lee benton christina rachelle christopher dean jane w brad richard bucholz justin robert michael edwards edwards richard joshua thomas rock peter storm roger amy rebecca truman gina marie christine weiss kelly jean wider courtney and wonder little kelly j john michael jeffrey harris white men bradley joseph wilson and when