June 30, 2010
Vol. 5 No. 1 Inside This Issue... 4th of july
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Post Photo/John’s Photography Cardinal High School class of 2010 (front row, left to right) Tim Filla, Salutatorian; Kailee Yoder, Salutatorian; and Travis Miller, Valedictorian.
Congratulations Class of 2010 Commencement Speech By Travis Miller, Valedictorian
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“The mundane man lacks depth. He lacks vision. The poorest of all men is not the one without a nickel to his name, he is the fellow without a dream.” If we forgo trying to reach for our dreams and settle for less, all our actions are meaningless and are devoid of any greater purpose. I ask all of you today to hold tightly to your dreams and never let them go. Your dreams will always light the path for you; you just have to have the courage to keep taking steps towards them. My fellow classmates, today is the day upon which we graduate. We have fought through endless torrents of homework, tests, projects and papers and have come out victorious. Some of us will go to college. Some will enter the work force. However, right now we are all united, because after tonight, we will be free to take the next step of our lives. New choices will avail themselves to us, and new doors will open. It is my hope that we use these open doors to come that much closer realizing our dreams. I’m going to leave you tonight with one more quote. “It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly … who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” This quote from Teddy Roosevelt has meant a lot to me. I hope you can find meaning within it as well.
For more commencement speeches, turn to page 20.
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Good evening everyone. First and foremost, I’d like to start things off by giving my deepest thanks to everyone who’s been there for me. I thank my parents, because they have fundamentally shaped the person I am today. Without them, I simply wouldn’t be here. Thank you mom and dad. I also thank my brother and sister, for pushing me forward and giving me strength when I needed it, for giving me a shoulder to cry on as well as a kick in the butt. I thank my friends, who’ve given me both laughter and reality checks. I’d like to give a special shout out to Johnny Payan, who’s helped to bring back the fedora. Lastly, I’d like to thank all of the teachers who’ve suffered me in class, for going beyond the call of duty and doing their utmost to teach us a few things. Now that that’s all settled, I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about life. Specifically, about how we should be living our lives. Harvey Fierstein, an actor and a playwright, once said: “Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” To me, this means that we are called to not accept the limitations that others may perceive us to have. Instead, we must have the courage to live boldly, loudly, and passionately. We all have within ourselves the strength to push forward despite trials and tribulations. Each one of us has the courage to believe in ourselves when no one else does. I believe that we are all capable of things that go well beyond the realm of the mundane. I believe that we should not settle for the ordinary; instead, we must strive for the extraordinary. To do this, to reach the lofty goal of living a life that has surpassed all expectation, we must also have vision. Vision allows us to see both the light at the end of the tunnel as well as the railroad tracks that lead there. As someone once said,
Middlefield Post Begins Year 5
By Nancy Hrivnak
“Neighborly News From Around the Corner” is still going strong as the Middlefield Post starts its fifth year. Our staff continues to strive to bring you an inspiring, uplifting community paper. “I keep going back to the movie ‘Evan Almighty,’” says Post General Manager Christine Pavelka, describing the guiding principle behind the Post’s operations. “I might not be able to change the world, but I can try to make things better in my little corner of the world, one issue at a time.” You can get news from around the world in an instant, but until the Middlefield Post, you couldn’t get news from across the street in your own hometown. Nothing can substitute for a local newspaper for making announcements and sparking community awareness of what goes on right where you live. This is the Middlefield Post’s mission. Continued on page 3