Saturday, April 17, 2010

North Quincy - Speech 1945

N. QU1NCY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION SPEECH 1945
JUDITH HANSON

The coming generation has always been under fire. Whether it was the coming generation of 1945,1925 or 1876, the present generation was sure the younger one was all wrong. It was too careless, too frivolous, too indifferent to its responsibilities. It'-has listened to endless admonitions beginning--When I was a boy or when I was a girl.

In spite of the gloomy predictions about it, the present generations has always survived--and creditably. Each successive one has become the present generation and then the past shaking a warning finger at its successor. Yet, each one has solved its problems and left behind its contributions to the great American tradition.

Are we equipped to tread the untrodden paths, to solve the puzzling problems of the world ahead with its new industrial, governmental, and social conditions? The earlier generations faced a predictable pattern of life. They could not stray far from the old well-worn grooves. However,the coming generation of 1945 is faced with new conditions. Conditions on which the sage advice of its elders 'can throw little light.

It is this future, which this graduation class of 1945 is soberly facing tonight. We take courage from the achievements during the last few years of our brothers,cousins, and friends. Flung into the fiery furnace of war, they have not failed in courage, endurance, suffering and even death. For the end is not yet, for many of us shall join them in finishing the work that they have begun. For we are the coming generation by whose hands the new world will be formed.

Are we equipped? Can we accept the challenge? Nurtured in an American public school, we have had every opportunity to develop the courage and initiative that our future demands, as countless generations before have met theirs and as you have met yours.
Thank you'

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Krietners in Utah

Here is when Dick and Debby Krietner came to Alta Utah. They enjoyed Skiing, puzzling, falling snow, family history research in SLC, and they enjoyed the Huttons and Yerkes.

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Dry Canyon Hike

One day we went for a hike up Dry Canyon. This is the one just east of us. Drive up 2000 North then just keep going to the parking lot. Raquel is a good one to hike with. She has an even pace and knows when to stop for air. [Paul and Becca just hike too fast] Here we enjoyed the view. Yet we stopped when we started hiking in the snow and mud.
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Christopher can hear

Christopher can hear really well. He likes to look at where the sound is coming from. Especially when it is a new sound. But then after awhile he gets tired. Everyone enjoys his company.
Hey I thought there was a method of uploading a video. How do I do that?
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Christopher enjoys Lacrosse

Here is Christopher enjoying the game of Lacrosse. He cannot wait until he can play catch with his Uncles Paul and John. Give me a ball he says. I want to chew and slobber on it, and play catch.
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