During your high school years we have tried to teach the basic things. It has been the aim of your school to teach you how to think and develop your judgment. We hope the young people who graduate from high schools today will be the soundest group of thinkers and the finest analysts the country has ever had. You must be prepared for the momentous days. You are leaving high school today, but education is a process that never ends. You must continue to grow mentally, to reach out for new ideas, and for new information. It will not be possible for you to know all the right answers to the many problems which will arise. The important thing is to try to find the right answer. Your years in this school have been spent in preparation for such associations, and during that period the faculty has opened to you the store-houses of enlightenment and has endeavored by all means to inspire you with the sacredness of truth. Through the school you have become the heirs of the past and the inheritors of the wealth and the wisdom of all those who have toiled before you. At the same time, we hope you will never forget that we at Shelbyville High School count it our greatest privilege to participate in the guidance and training of ambitious, capable, young Americans such as you have proved yourselves to be.