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Show Bingham High School Wishes Class '45 Luck 1 o A war-depleted t'lass, one of the smallest to graduate in I recent years from Bingham high school, held impressive and interesting commencement exercises Wednesday evening at the school auditorium. Douglas Reed, class president, acted j as master of ceremonies and Jeane Willis, acting student body ! president, gave the invocation. Musical selections included a vocal solo, "When Day Is Done" by Maurine Hyland; a marimba solo, "Evening Star" by Marilyn Miller; a vocal solo, "Through the Years", by Beverly Nix; a French horn solo, "Ave Maria" by Maxine Warner and class singing of "I'll Be Seeing You". The salutatorian, Shirley Parkin, Par-kin, spoke on "Our Democratic Ideals : "As we look at the world about us, we wonder that we should be so blessed as to live in a land in which a man can believe be-lieve in himself and his personal right to happiness and be aided by law to secure that happiness. We can act according to the dictates dic-tates of our conscience and be unafraid in our beliefs, even though they may differ with those of our governmental leaders. lead-ers. We. the youth of this generation, genera-tion, in reply to the demanding voices of yesterday, state that we fully realize the responsibilities of being free and willingly accept ac-cept the charge of being a citizen citi-zen of this great nation. In spilling spill-ing our blood during this war, we have become dedicated and consecrated to the protection of the principles which gave our country birth, and in time of peace we pledge our ability, knowledge and efforts to safeguard safe-guard our democratic ideals for our posterity. We will be ever striving to organize a just and common peace and we will dream our dreams of a splendid destiny and work to make our dreams come true." ' The valedictorian, Howard Hausknecht, was called to duty last week- Others of the class in armed services, whose diplomas were on hand for awarding to mothers were DelMar Schick, K Robison. Menaru Mochizuki. Benny Perea and Alma Simmons, serving in the nuvy and armv, were able to attend the exercises. "Our Religious and Spiritual Ideals" was discussed by Elaine Cheever, who said in part: "Sorrow, "Sor-row, adversity, service, patience in suffering, constant prayer and unfaltering faith, all these things prepare the heart for the seed of truth. Cultivate this seed day after af-ter day. Out of this seend comes a testimony and the truth of this testimony is Christianity." "Yes, the best things in life are free free to the one who bows his head and gives unquestioning unquestion-ing obedience to there religious and spiritual ideals that govern us." Jack Robison, whose topic was "Our Mechanical Ingenuity", told how forefathers in America's early history found their new birth of freedom and liberty, their opportunity to work for their posterity and their privilege privil-ege to create and build their own way in the new world the greatest great-est factor in their favor. He said: "This was America's salvation. For in building men learned and as they learned they became curious cur-ious and from this curiousity has come a galaxy of ideas and. inventions in-ventions which have astonished the world and which have firmly established America's mechanical ingenuity. We must not be satisfied with what we have. It is our duty to take the things our forefathers gave us and better them. It is our duty to bend our every effort to strive, work and dream, until our forefathers' wishes and ambitions am-bitions are fulfilled." In speaking on "Our Cultural j and Social Ideals". Jaqueline j Barlow said: "Now, more than ever, we face the problem of i gaining international coopera-(Continued coopera-(Continued on page ten) BINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL BIDS THE CLASS '45 LUCK (CVntinued from page PWd tion The forces Which have caused caus-ed peoples to drift apart have now become instruments for union. un-ion. No longer can any country live in isolation! The magic touch of man is overcoming time and space. Increasingly trie at- fain of One part Of the world are becoming bound into the welfare of the whole. 1 "When we have solved our problems we can attain the most desired ideal in the world, the Ideal ol complete peace. It is our intention to extend the four freedoms free-doms to all mankind: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want and Freedom from Pear We must become con-cerned con-cerned with the oppressed, the poor and the under privileged in every land. We must comnut our power and our wealth to changing chang-ing these conditions wherever they exist in the world which denies to individuals the same heritage of freedom and opportunity oppor-tunity which we as citizens en joy in the United States. Looking ahead to "Our Country Coun-try After the War", Mary Ellen Linck presented this view: "The year 1941 plunged the United States into a life and deuth strug- I gle. Americans faced an even greater task than winning the war. They had also to win the peace to follow. Mistakes by the treaty makers- of 1919, helped I make a .second World war inevitable. in-evitable. How can the peace that I follows World War II, be made a peace that will last? "Faced with what many consider con-sider the greatest crisis of world history, our country must not drift along the lines of least resistance- The day of weakness and compromise is oast. Courage and compromise is past. Courage and decision are the demands of our time. America must choose." Dr. C. N. Jensen awarded diplomas di-plomas to the class, which was presented by Principal T. H. Mc-mullin. Mc-mullin. Salvador Aguayo gave the benediction. The flags of the United Nations were used in decoration de-coration of the school gymnasium where the dance honoring graduates grad-uates was held. |