Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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Mr. Hardy; on leaving a school each class endeavors to show its appreciation to the one person it considers its best friend and most helpful adviser. We have selected you as the teacher who has done the most for us in the light of your versatile service to our class and to the school. The school and the town have been distinguished by your work in the field of dramatics. Among your other achievements are the found- ing of a successful employment bureau in the school and your work in vocational guidance for the students. Even as this dedication is being written, you are serving a cause far more important than your previous undertakings. We are proud to dedicate our yearbook to you, as a member of our country’s armed forces and as our friend.

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1 You are leaving high school to assume your place in life at a time when the world is at war and the future uncertain. You are among the first war classes to be graduated from the high schools of America. You must assume a responsibility that is becoming greater with each passing day. What your future will be depends on you. Do not forget that life itself never changes. It is always full of happi- ness and sorrow, of success and failure, depending upon the attitude and effort of the individual. Be true to the habits, attitudes, and ideals developed by your school and you will meet all of life’s problems with success. My sincere wishes for the best that life can give to each and all of you.

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Mr. Horace H. Raymond, Chairman Mr. John A. Moore, Vice Chairman Mr. Frank Kramer, Secretary Mr. James E. O’Brien Mr. Richard Brown Mr. William Ross Mr. Frederick Peck Dr. A. F. Seibert Mr. David Wilson On December 9, 1941, President Roosevelt said in his report to the nation, We are now in this war; we are all in it, all the way.” Overnight we had become actively engaged in a titanic struggle to de- termine whether our American ideals and institutions should remain as a bul- wark against aggressor nations or whether they should remain only as a haunt- ing memory in the hearts of a great, free people. Free public school education is an American institution. We are proud of our heritage and we are grateful to the men who have kept the faith and have guided our youth through their formative years. We, too, solemnly pledge to uphold these ideals which have now become so deep-rooted in our daily lives.