Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-06-01

YOUR HEART
Is AenvAIED
BY
tltcIRlcAl,
IMPULSES
GETTING DOWN TO
"BRASS
THE END OF THE BEGINNING

With the senior ball tonight, Com
meneement activities for another
Year In the pIentYWood high school
will have come to III end, as they
have for all other schools in the
neighborhood.
1t would not have been difficult
for one to assume that the past
week WIS graduation week in plen-
tywood. Somehow you felt it all
about you. whether on the school
grounds, In the buildings or on the
streets. Everyone seemed to be
busy. Members Of various commit
tees were busily engaged in planning
for the different events Of the week
class day exercises, b~accalaureate,
~picnics. the big program Of com
mencement itself - and through it
all each with his or her own indivi-
dual problems of closing up the
years work in d manner satisfactory
to themselves, their parents and
their instructors.
An air of expectation seemed to
attend it all. The various events OF
commencement week in any high
school command a great deal of eff
fort. And, with that effort, there is
4 LOT Of sentiment very near the sur
faee-Young folks -strolling away
from the school arm in arm, some
saying goodbyes to a c0mradship
that has added much to their high
school experience. Lilacs in. blosscsa,
rY1rt ~ kinds a11fny al ali uhn rna
to the occasion. Parents voicing
pride in their own boys and girls
some of whom at different times
wanted to give up the battle, but
were urged to carry through to the
end.
Ships going out to sea-these
young people. They make you think
Of that, for Commencement week Is
4 time Of smiles, and joy and CHEEKY
| goodbyes-the seyering, in all too
many cases, forever, of little ties
formed unconsciously through four
years of endeay0r that have become
very dear to those they bind. Proud
parents at all the programs. Yes, 1t
was a great week for them too. They
have sacrificed much, especially in
these last three years, that those
they love and to whom they are re-
sponsible may have opportunities
which p~erchance were not theirs to
enjoy.
We sometimes wonder why they
call it Commencement week. To
many graduation time-the receiv-
ing Of their diplomas-is the end OF
a long struggle. But it is only the
end of the beginning. Many Of these
young people must still find them
selves. They are truly at the com
mencement Of life - the beginning
Of their service to society. Many OF
them will so to higher institutions
Of learning. Some day they will
graduate from these, but the time
in life will never come when they
cease learning or escaping the re-
sponsibilities that life brings to
every man and every woman. The
story of whether these young men
and woman succeed in life Is yet to
be written. The high school diploma
only marks the end Of a beginning
which has been made in the right
direction.
Commencement brings the mood
Of "Reminiscences to all who come In
contact with its activities Memory
probably takes you back to another
commencement day and to the pic
tnre Of another graduation class
which would seem rather quaint In
this modern day. You hear again
the last class song with sweet young
voices ringing out. Faces come back
out Of the past, faces Of teachers,
faces OF classmates, faces of old
time sweethearts. You would like to
be standing there again now, on the
threshold Of life, with the chance to
do the hundreds Of things you In