Chester High School - Flamstead Challenge Yearbook (Chester, VT)

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Fczculty Left to Right Mr. Damon Barnes - Principal - French and General Science Miss Jean Morse - Home Economics Miss Ruth Sawyer -- English - Latin - Biology Mrs. Elsie Belknap - Commercial Subjects Mrs. Electa Stocker - Junior High School Miss Doris Cutting - History and Social Studies Mr. Franklin Stevens - Science and Mathematics Mr. Harold Lewis - Shop Course, was absent when the picture was taken

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FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE Freshman Class The class ofiicers were elected as follows: Howard Westiiie Edwin Willzird Frankie Vvfilliams Ruth Holton ,lean WhiICOIIll7 Sirkka Suojanen Patricia Bullock Lloyd Stillwell Joyce White Marie Moffit Dorothy Eng Ella Northland Henry Troinbley President---Barbara Jeffrey Vicefljresident--Frankie Williaiiiis Secretary---Ella Northland Treasurer Bernard Cvonyaw First row, left to right Robert Cvannnon Bobby Hazcltine Williiiiii Hodge Second row, left to right Irene Spaulding Dorothy Colburn Priscilla Bullock Third row, left to right Albert DeCell ,ludith Clark Carl Rice Fourth row, left to right Frederick Wziite lviarion Vvlalker Fifth row, left to right Eineral Cook Missing from the picture fr-Helen Merritt Robert Lawrence Kermit Reilly Bernard Gonyaw Charlene Baker Arlene Cenate Colleen Bingham Barbara jeffrey Betty Harnois Frances Greeley joyee Stowell Arnold Lauren

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FLAMSTEAD CHALLENGE World Pecrce VALEDICTORY ADDRESS JOAN CASSISTA, 1945 A just peace in our time is our class motto which we chose when the war was still in a crucial state. Difficult and crucial has been the period just pastg the months before us will be the most fateful the world has ever faced-the struggle for world peace. A struggle on the one hand against a powerful reaction group committed to the original status quo and on the other hand the inertia of populations so fatigued by years of war that they can be easily confused that a victory in arms would mean a victory in peace. Political education for peace has become one of the great imperatives of ourtime. It demands coordinated action with educational institutions and organizations of labor and of capital against isolationism, economic insecurity and racial antagonism. But effective action of this sort will have meaning only if the individual can be made to understand that his private security depends upon the development of collective security in this country and the world. Political education for the protection and expansion of democracy is what we all must work for in the months ahead, enlarging the aware' ness of the American citizen of his responsibilities for building a world society that might in the end justify the agonies and sacrifices of this war. While the world is still in the process of being destroyed, a new world is being built at Quebec, at Dumbarton Oaks, in London, Teheran, Yalta and San Francisco. The representatives of the great powers are busy piecing together the Europe that lies almost liberated. The time for action is short-too short when you realize how little has been decided and what remains to be decided. To prevent German and japanese aggression in the future is the first task of the peace settlement, and because of the undermining of German and Japanese might and the overwhelming power of the victorious nations it is certain also to be the easiest task. Far more complicated, and of course more important, is the business of removing the fundamental causes of war and organizing the world for prolonged peace and prosperity. The Dumbarton Oaks conference and various United Nations commissions have been nibbling at this great problem. After this war there will not be another major war for eight or ten years as no nation will have the physical or moral strength to launch it. In this period, the peace will be won or lost. The United States is about to make one of the most important decisions in its whole history-soon a treaty will undoubtedly be offered to the Senate proposing to bring this country into a new league of nations. Such an important step will require long and careful debate in the Senate and it should be preceded by nationwide debate, also. The chief arguments of those who say that the United States should stay out may be summarized as follows: fll The world is still ruled by selfish powers which have not actually renounced the sort of political and economic imperialism and power politics that have tended in the past to produce war, and will continue to do so in the future. QD This sofcalled peace organization would consist of the Security Council dominating and overfshadowing the work and wishes of the lesser allies and neutrals. Q31 Ameri' cans, especially, do not want the new organization to be empowered to make decisions regarding the use of American armed forces without ratification by Congress. Q41 Some alarm is also expressed lest the plan be used to freeze the status quo so firmly that even revolution against a dictatorship, or freedom for a conquered territory, like India, might be impossible.