parents to their home when he was eleven days old. He grew up here, went through the fifth grade of school here, and at the age of twelve, moved to Upper Sandusky, Ohio. After three years there, his father, Stephen Armstrong, was again transferred. They made their home then in Wapakoneta where young Neil attended high school, learned to fly an airplane and went on to college-the Air Force-and the moon ! With five generations of Armstrongs behind him, and an almost equal number on his mother's side of the family, a vast number of the local population can call him "cousin" or at least "cousin-in-law" ! All of Saint Marys is extremely proud of this young man and respects his often expressed desire to stay out of the lime light.

The Saint Marys Story has now been told. The days of an Indian trading post have given way to an industrial-agricultural community. The sturdiness of the pioneer family is still prevalent in the character of the peoples who came to make this the strong city it is today. Men of vision and action for a century and a half have created here the results of their dreams.

There are still today men of great vision and their actions will make Saint Marys an even better place to live. Some men today see a restructuring of our downtown area or in failure to do so, the deadening blight of a shopping center. Some men today see the need for a "Golden Age" center where older folks can live their days in peace, free from the worries of household maintenance and personal loneliness. Other men see visions of vocational schools to better prepare our youth for the life that lays ahead of them, and still others see visions of preserving some of the heritage left by those who preceded us. The Miami & Erie Parkway has one last chance of survival. A few more years of neglect and it will all be gone. The green space available now as the South Park and containing the graves of our first settlers will in time become a second class subdivision or a factory site unless vision and action are again combined. Others vision a new home for our Community Library, a youth development center, or a Y.M.C.A. type of operation, and still others vision a senior citizen-art and craft hall.

Visions are what tomorrow is made of-without them tomorrow will be worse than today! Good luck, Saint Marys! May your dreams and visions through your actions bring that better Tomorrow to each and everyone of you!