Class motto rings true
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Editor,
High School class reunions can be lots of fun simply from the standpoint of trying to put names to faces after sixty years with almost no visual contact. The Polson High School classes of 1949-51 were together over Labor Day weekend; many of us had to put on our ‘readers’ in order to read the large print on our former classmates’ name tags.
The planning committee had asked me to do the invocation the first evening of our reunion; in preparation I did a brief review of our class mottos; unusual mottos when compared to politically correct thinking today. The 1950 graduating class of PHS chose the following for their class motto: “God gave us mountains and the strength to climb them.” Mountains are a familiar experience to all of us living in western Montana; we see them, we drive the highways among them, we’ve even climbed some of them.
My brother Joe was in the 1950 PHS graduating class; he went on to study earth, rocks and other things at Butte School of Mines, where he earned a Metallurgical Engineering degree.
I think that the graduating class of 1950 selected their motto thinking of some of the difficulties they would face in life after high school. Life is full of difficulties; getting through college is difficult; having a successful marriage is difficult; raising a respectable family is difficult; living with neighbors can be difficult; saving money for retirement is difficult; growing older is difficult, life is full of difficulties; but with every difficulty comes an opportunity; an opportunity to trust God to provide wisdom and strength to conquer the mountain.
The Psalmist wrote, “I look up to the mountains, does my help come from there? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” (Ps.121:1) The 1950 graduating class of PHS had it right; God gives us strength to conquer mountains.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
