| Show f hof q Bees WAXING By Mary Bee High School Graduations are by tradition sad occasions- occasions sad for the graduates because they are leaving behind not only the hap happiest pie s t most carefree years of their lives but the security of home to take the responsibility for t the their h e i r own lives Sad for the parents because they know that any success successor success or or failure t the their h e i r children make from here on depend greatly on past training Sad for schoolmates because they know many of these graduates graduates graduates grad grad- they will rarely if ever eversee eversee eversee see again and cutting the ties of friendship are sad occasions All beginnings beginnings' and endings are sad I FIND MYSELF looking with nostalgia back on the past five years in the Bee office this week because it is my last week here Many of my happiest and most rewarding rew moments have bees been been- many here of my my most enjoy enjo enjoyable able friendships h have a v e been created here But of c course 0 u r s e all of my moments h here her e r e haven't been happy OR rewarding like the of first-day-of- school when some school high-school student flattened the tire on my car which was parked in front of the school or the time a fake engagement announcement was shoved under the Bee office door and printed in good faith- faith causing a great deal of em embarrassment m- m and some hurt feelings or the day a very nice lady took up a great deal of my time asking extensive questions about how she should write up the copy for wedding invitations which had a ticklish situation involving the second wife of the the father the that the g groom ro o m family d did didn't i d n n t want mentioned any anywhere here I finally admitted I wasn't too foo sure what Emily Post had to say about this kind of situation although my own o 0 opinion p pin i n i ion o n was that if father married her she should be given the respect of any second wife regardless of the sons son's opinions Anyway I would solve the problem the way I always solved problems too big for my little pea-brain pea when I turned the invitation order into the Morgan office I would let Louise our wedding expert figure it out Oh that wont won't do my caller said we arent aren't planning to order our invitations from you we are ordering them from a Salt Lake printer IF W M MY RE HE PLY seemed somEwhat somewhat somewhat some somE- what rude my apologies or there are the times some one has told me an especially especially especially espe espe- interesting story about their family famil only only to climax it with Dont Don i you dare put that in inthe inthe inthe the Bee I dont don't want my name nime in there So I wonder are they ju just t being modest and secretly wan want their stor story printed or or rdo do th they mean it I have to ass assume assume me they mean it and a good human interest story is lost forever or the person who re reprimands reprimands reprimands re- re me sharply because their story didn't hit the front page or because their personal i it item t e m somehow got crowded out during make up or because by some wild stretch of the imagination the pictures got mixed up in an item about the same person TWICE IN A ROW i or or the story story- that story that came out about the wrong person be because because be- be cause of a typographical typographic e error that changed the name of oi one one person to his neighbors neighbor's a million to one change I managed to hit OH WELL life is like that Besides the compliments and the thank you's and the dones done's have by far outreached the bad times Good-bye's Good can be very sad My daughter explained her hert t tears ea r s at Junior H High i gh graduation graduation graduation grad grad- I I feel just like Ive I've lost a whole bunch of of big sisters sisters sis sis- and brothers brothers' But th their ir friendship can never be lost Everyone whose lives touch yours throughout your life enriches yours to an extent if you let th them m. m This holds true whether you are a seventh gr grader ade r losing s e n i 0 brothers and sisters sisters' or an adult who has reached a new beginning and ending You never lose a friend only the association Cherish Cherish that thought Thanks eve every ry one Mary Bee |
