The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-17
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Dear friends, we who are pass
ing out of high school life intt
more active citizenship today. Zee
that we have a place in the ma
tional life. We feel that we nave
a work to do in demonstrating the
spirit of patriotism that is WITHIN
us Reconstruction is still golne
ON all over the land. Much needS
to be reconstructed; much TO pt
DESTROYED. We can all have Par'
in il women as well as men; girls
as we'll as boys. Whatever nelps
70 make the nation better and no.
bIer. whatever serves to elevate
the people of the land to any high
or plane of thought and lie;
whatever, in any way, max
america-or any portion of it
better worth the living in, is help
ING on the great work of present
day reconstruction; and remem-
her whatever elevates the lndl-
,idual elevates to a greater or
lesser degree the community IN
which that individual lives. We
are Overlooking with class patriot
SIN this afternoon and we step
forth into the. arena with a full
sense of our own Importance. we
know, of course. that we are mot
bound to make the earth 60 right
but we are sure that realizing our
possibilities in being a part OF all
"that liberates and lifts" we have
also as clear an idea of the re-
sponsibility that each possibility
involves, and shall each one OF us
endeavor to "do with cheerful
heart the work that God ap-
points" whatever that work may
be. We expect great things OF
ourselves. and we trust that you,
too, may expect great things OF
us-and may not be disappointed.
Dear teachers, you who have
had the training of US in tbs spirit
of patriotism, we know how fully
YOU have realized that the strong
est asset of the American nation,
and indeed of every other nation,
is it's citizenship. You have GER
tainly put forth every effort
within your power to make true
American men and women out Of
the raw material within your
hands. How we'll you have sue
ceeded, of course, only the future
can determine. But we thank you
at this time for all that you have
so cheerfully done, and tried to
do for each one of us, and trust
that the years to come may dem-
onstrate to your satisfaction. as
well as to our own, that out of the
stuff from which we were, made.
you were really as successful as
even your ambition could desire,
in turning us out-men and wo-
men.
Classmates, let US resolve that
they shall. May the colors of our
class and all that they stand for,
but symbolic. in its larger serse,
the principles of the nation, and
fire US with the zeal to make of
ourselves such men and women as
the United States. as well as
Fruitland high school, shall be
glad to claim their own. Let US,
as we separate. go forth with the
determination of proving to the
world that our high school was
certainly one of the best mills n
the world for grounding out indi-
viduals that are worth while. Let
us make loyalty our controlling
spirit. and in being loyal to our
selves, to our class, and to our
school, we shall of necessity be
loyal to every larger claim. that
the American nation can demand
of the most efficient of her sons
and daughters in any hour of her
need. Let US show the world as we
step out into its fields of endeavor
that we are the stuff the best citi-
zens and truest patriots are made
of, carrying still in our hearts
whatever life may bring, the same
spirit of courage and resolution
and highminded integrity with
which we must now aid one an
other farewell. Let me. in speak
ing this last word, propose this
new toast, to replace the sugges-
ton of Decatur's, and voice the
higher patriotism that should ami
mate us all:
-. "Our class!
Here's that she always may be in
the right!
Here's that her standard may ever
be white!
Here's that whatever our future
may be,
Steady and fearlessly God-like
may be
Our class!'