Show valedictory ADDRESS BY LONA SHIELDS mr air chairman parents and friends four years ago our class metto met together tor for the first time it was not composed of students from fillmore alone but was made up ot of young people from all the towns on oil the past aa bt side of millard mallard county bur high school has haa served asa as a link which has bound us together with common interests and mold molded ed us into a unit all antagonism or ri that existed between tho the different towns has been forgotten in our struggle together in this way our NI N school chool I has been a force which has united cited the future citizens ot of east misad nu miS idaa td d county during these four our years many ot of our classmates have dropped out for or various reasons but we still have by far ar the largest class that has ever graduated from the millard billiard colin county ty high school and we are very proud of that fact we teel feet that we have been benefited greatly by these years of association with ono one another we have made friendships which we will value throughout life we have worked and played together each has experienced perien ced the joys of success and the pangs of failure but out of it all we have come with finer and broader views A high school education is now ours and we are better prepared to meet the battle life has lit in store tor for us we have reached the stepping nj stone which will make ifor for us to go on and obtain education it we desire jet ilot mo me pause pausa a moment and a word ord of appreciation and ad to everyone who has help drije to mako make this ilits possible to the tax yr yera of mellard county to the sup enin and school board who have supervised our efforts to our teachers who have instructed us and who have set up ideals and aspirations tor for us to struggle toward but most of all let me thank our dear parents who have tolled and sacrificed that we might have these privileges vi leges that we might havo have a high school education tonight Is the night that we have been looking forward to tor for tour four years it Is the night we have kept in mind when we have grown discontented or discouraged but now that this evening ot of graduation has at last arrived it Is with mingled feelings of sadness and gladness that we meet together tor for the last time wo we are sad because the happy days that have been will now be nothing but sweet memories wo we arestad are sad because our class as a whole Is parting perhaps never to meet again we are slid sad because we will now part from many or of the friends whom we have learned to love and cherish A verso verse from edgar A guests poem the joys wo we miss aliss well expresses our feelings on oil this occasion there never comes a lonely day but what we miss the laughing ways ot of those who used to walk with us through all our happy yesterdays we seldom miss the earthly great the famous men that life has known but as the years go racing by we miss the friends we used to own these thoughts make us sad but at the same time we are tilled filled with gladness we are glad because we have attained our first goal we have reached tile the beacon light that thai has been beckoning us on tor for the last tour four years now wo look ahead and see bigger and brighter lights to struggle towards in tile the future our class will separate and we will go our different ways with different ferent alms aims some will go on to college while others will start earning their own some will aspire to tamo fame and some will select humble occupations no matter how exalted or how lowly our lots there are certain definite alms that we can all have in common first let us its resolve to put forth our best efforts we can succeed in anything that we attempt bo be the task great or small it if we never let second best be good enough it Is not dashes of brilliance dispersed with times of 0 laying down on tho the job and not trying that brings success cess but steady constant effort failure comes not from lack of ability but from failing to do things the very best that we know how bow when our work Is completed it we can honestly say that we have done it to the best of our ability we cannot have tailed failed in the truest sense ot of the word edgar A guest in ili his poem on effort says just keep excellent in effort all the rest will come to you there any problem but some day learn to do and some bome day when you grow older you will come to understand that by hard and patient toiling men have risen to command and some day you will discover when a greater goals at stake that better tar far than brilliance is the effort you will make second let us bo be reliable there la Is no quality that we admire more in our friends than reliability there is nothing that is more essential to success and prosperity it if we are not reliable wo we will find it difficult to obtain employment or to hold it after we get it it is the quality which will determine whether our work will be sought after and demanded or whether employers will shun us as untrustworthy and nudes liable therefore we should cultivate this quality as aa something which will help us in climbing the ladder ot of success and as something which will help to make us its happy prosperous citizens our third aim should bo be to render service what greater priNi privilege lege is offered to a human being than to serve his fellow men would wo we not all be supremely happy it if with the coming of each setting sun we could truly say today I 1 have render ed some little service to a fellow being who was in need there is work for or us all to do there are arc those who need our service then let us not be self cantere d and selfish thi thinking alling only of ourselves and our own gains but let us dedicate some part of our time to serving others truly we cannot all be Linc olits or florence nightingales but we can all servo according to our own capacity no matter how bow small our service or how humble our service if we 11 ill give it freely we can feel that the world has been made better by our having been here the greatness ot of this thing called service Is shown by what our savior said ile he who would be arl great at among you let him serve ile ho who would be happy let him remember there is but one way it Is more blessed to give than to receive for a fourth aim lot us choose honesty it Is the basic and absolutely necessary principle ot of a good character we might be wealthy brilliant kind and generous but not honest and we would not have a good character others could not trust us and they would not want us for their or their partners in business dealings first we should be ba honest with ourselves we should not be afraid to admit that we are wrong or criticize ourselves when we are in error it we are honest with ourselves we should not then find it difficult to be honest with others our fifth and last aim should be obedience to law the great need of our country today Is law obeying citizens there Is more crime and lawlessness here in the united states than in any ny other civilized nation we as individuals can help to correct this evil the laws that are being disobeyed are our laws because in this great republican form orm of 0 government we indirectly make them it Is therefore our duty to uphold and glorify these laws we can do a great deal in that direction by being obedient ourselves and by using our influence to cause others also to be obedient and so fellow classmates though it may cause us a sigh and a heartache let us bid farewell to our teachers and friends from whom we now must part let us bid farewell to our high school days happy and worthwhile though they have been lot let us bid farewell to all that has been and armed with an shield on oil which Is inscribed effort reliability service honesty and obedience let us advance with open minds and ambitious hearts 0 o a bright and shining future tor for which the past has merely been a preparation |