Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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To the Members of the Class of 1943 GREETINGS: You have completed twelve years of formal training wherein you have become proficient in the knowledge and skills you will use in your quest for success and happiness. You have my con- gratulations and best wishes. You are about to face life at a time when its problems appear beyond solution. Your country is involved in a war so great in its magnitude as to be called an all-out” war. Many of you boys are now in the armed services, many of you girls are making weapons of war, and all of you are making adjustments required by civilian participation in warfare. Your immediate future is controlled by the gods of war. Your destiny, however, is not controlled by the problems of the present. There are always problems to be met in time of war or in time of peace. The way you face problems, not the prob- lems themselves, determines success and happiness. Although war time services will be difficult and may interfere with your plans and ambitions remember that only by meeting these situations with courage, honesty, and faith can you build for a future worthwhile life. It is my hope and trust that each member of the class of 1943, wherever he or she may be, will face life with courage and with faith in himself, his country, and in God. Sincerely, M. V. MacLauehlin.

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Presenting THE LAMP 19 4 3 Berlin High School Berlin, Conn.

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Out there in almost every part of the world today are thou- sands of boys — tall boys, short boys, brunettes, redheads, boys who lived next door to us, and boys who lived a thousand miles away from us, but nevertheless, boys who are all fighting for us. There are boys who were in high school, playing left guard on the basketball team or end on the football team, uproariously experimenting with calcium carbide in Chemistry class and im- portantly borrowing the family car for special dates.” There are boys who were in college singing the Whiffenpoof Song” or yelling the State Teacher’s college cheer; going through the dark period of being harrassed underclassmen and finally ending a victorious senior. There are boys who were starting out on their first real jobs, looking for the traditional left-handed” monkey wrench on their first day, kidding the girls in the office and spending half their pay checks before they even received them. These boys have given up everything they love — their work, their homes, their families, their best girls” and even their wives. So it is to them that we dedicate our year book with the sin- cere promise that we will work for victory and do all in our power to help those boys to finish up their unpleasant task and come home soon.