Bexley High School - Bexleo Yearbook (Bexley, OH)

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“ . . . our Navy is no longer our first line of de- fense. Our first combat divisions are the public school teachers. And, upon them descends a sacred duty. For they must forever dispel darkness by giving early light! They must meet the poison of race hatred with the inoculation of tolerance. They must arm each child invincibly with the Truth! For in the light of inter- national events their horizon has enlarged. The school teachers are no longer merely helping children to develop themselves. They are fighting in the first line trench—for the LIFE—of the Republic!” Good wishes, WALTER WINCHELL. Reprinted by personal permission of the author.

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CLASS SONG We are the future of America; Ours is the task to keep her banner bright. We are the guardians of Freedom’s fate; We must rejoice to hold aloft her light. O youth, we hold aloft her light. Our Freedom may be lashed by bitter storms Of Poverty and Tyranny and Strife; But we will use our bodies as a shield For Freedom, dying that she may have life. O Youth, our Freedom must have life. Our lives become the links of endless chains; The latest link, we must the strongest be: Living our creed, unwavering, so that Our children may inherit liberty. O youth, safeguard their liberty. —Mary Louise Dell.

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 NWWKS Ss i H. C. DIETERICH, A. B„ M. A. Superintendent of the Bexley Schools N, vN'fe--: