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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1981)
** link between the total past and that which is vet to be. The acts we will to the joys of any dauntless mountaineer who has reached a coveted summit ~ after a long and hard struggle upward. But any summit gained only shows us j distant peaks to try for and to conquer. So, many of us today, pausing now for I this brief hour, will soon be oh our way I to further training and studies that we expect will complete our preparation for the kinds of work we have set our minds upon. ; perform, the accomplishments which will be ours to determine and to bring to pass must enable us, our friends, and others to live mutually helpful and happy lives upon the earth, our planet-home. it has been said that man can realize his highest and his best when he is cooperating with others. Today, more than ever before, men must work to gether. There are tasks that cry for doing, there are wrongs that cry for Through our earlier school years, righting, there are those who cry for I this day seemed vague and far away. our just consideration; all vegetation and Later, it loomed larger and grew more the hosts it shelters, the seas, the sky, important, and we pressed toward the soil itself - all are crying out for our it with an ever-growing urgency. At just thought and action. times the climb seemed hard, and there were moments when we wondered if In a way, each life is like a story that we would reaily make it. We are here is written. Today another chapter of today, and our presence tells you that we hfe is finished. And now, more than i ' did keep the goal in sight, we did get before, men will hold us accountable ! that last assignment, and now we c for what the yet unwritten chapters will j say, "At last it is done.” reveal. Long ago, a very wise Man said, ‘‘To whom much is given, of the same shall much be required." upon this pleasant peak and see in the distance other beckoning peaks which we must climb. The complexities of life around us, the tasks that lie ahead are very great and threaten to be over whelming. Let no man think that he alone can bring solution. That can only come by cooperating attitudes and efforts. This is "Farewell” to Chemawa, our school, to our friends who stay, and to our classmates who disband and go. This is a place to remember...this is a day to remember. We will not forget. A4i V Young woman You have a trail to follow. Take care not to wander from it or in the end you find only misery. Stay with it: Let your heart take its meaning Then, at journey’s end, there will be peace. —Emmy Bitt
