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IT PAYS TO DREAM
tWin*? 1*20 a very *ih mao had a great dreom a ¿team of < reonrg a «chool i h.r w ould employ ww method* of «uid»ng ilk Jrirlop-nifni ol mk »*u»*ent to« .i?d a fuller iraUia-firm nf the poecnrialifie-* of hi« m*nd «hjiracirr. personality ond *ets«c a% a of*:en lie devoted \f«n ol hi« lile to making hi«
dream come true Heeou** *om< ol *• who had •Ik rart priviWgr of working w«th h.m caught •hi* ii«iM, vr too dedicated our «give* *»• «wk* ifVy foe hi« ideal Oie *<hool today i» a trihute ro the grearnr** ol Mr Ru*<on. and a ion-proof iha* dream« con hoeww iMktki
A frw (Ion • ago 4«o(hrr dream tame true. When I returned to lio\ ana in I*H4 it Kin-cd to me thot on important protection «0« needed to moke permanent Mr Ru«too « achievement The »deal* of thi* «chool ond the thing* »< »ork foe ore too Kg ond too vitol to depend upon one mdividuol owner Mr Ruvion » dceos* belong ft to the fwture ond the organization which cornet it 0+1 «hould he permonem For «even veor* I hove looted forward to ilk ¿ay when the »«hoof could he changed to o non-profit foundation
On April twenty-*e«enth Me«. Boker and t
hud (he deep «attraction ol fiv»ng our owner-• Nip of the «chool to the Board of IXrector« fi « . MW rwahlithrd to »any rm the tradition ol some ol the great private «%hooh ond tMU\ee«itae« of the United Stole« h> devo«. *ng oil it* rnoge« to Kitldmg -n nrr-tn pmung K'heetl Whole«er gift* «He - i> re <n\e «koteirr peolit« «he ikon nuli wdl go rot :o on mdt« .dual owner. Sur 1© making •1 po 'ihl' to ieoder Miei «erviee *o h* 1 «tu de-t* toCuKo ond to vour world i«l »omrvrow P* fore «ehooJ 1* tUwd m June *. hffW 10 he .>W :o complete the purch.i*e ol land foe our •e» r uiViin1 Then we «holt hr one «tep nearer to thr r%*oh:orHMft of thot dreom m »npor*«nr 10 oM ol it«—the completion ol o pf-mt with mod ero focilir«*«. omple playground* ond »put field* —thot phvtieol monument wh«ch «1- »lull lw!d to Mr Ru*ron * memory
It pò«* to dreom dreom* if we art «iIIim to plan carefully. work hard ond ha\e enough lo» h n r».r « 1*400 not to heeome di«eourogrd hv drbw What Mr Ruftton did w hot we are doing todas. you too can do Your world and the pogrru of the future wiD depend very much upon the kind ol dream« to whieh you dedkote your live* J. D. Baker.
