Dickinson High School - Gnome Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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V MQ, A350 DEDICATION The jvunders gf our lVation lahored to give us an instrument with which to chart our course as an independent lVation. The Constitution has heen our guide for nearly one hundred and ffty byears. It carried us safeg through the fweahnesses gf an ifyfant nation to attain a place Q' leadership among the powers gf the world. Yliat through a thorough hnowledge y' it we may govern ourselves hetter and hold fast to the principles that have made gf us a great people, this copy gf the Constitution gf the United States if America and its amendments is presented, in commemoration gf its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. x w,, fy N' YA an I .-97 49 A W 3 Page fiv

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919 3 Qi wg QW, 5 u CL Page four E THE SYMBOLIC THEME Humanity, from our earliest records of history, has had symbols to express those things which they feared, adored, hated, admired or cherished. Creeds, empires and nations are founded on one or a combination of these characteristics. The highly imaginative human mind always perceptibly keen and eager to paint pictures, formulates, grasps and establishes symbols. In perpetual procession through the pages of Time, we have had the symbolic representations of all the outstand- ing emotions and movements in history. In religion we have the bad spirits, the ogres, the devil, the good spirts, God, the angels. In the empires we have had the symbols of strength and authority, the armies and the officials with all that they represented. In the nations we have the signs of fading monarchies, dictatorships, Fascistic, Communistic, and Republican Democracy. We of this powerful country are indeed blessed and fortu- nate in these troubled days. When others are continually using for their living symbols those of discord and death,- hate and armaments,-we have for ours those of unity and peace. The eagle, his strong wings unfurled, powerful claws and beak, and his clear sharp eyes, Hies above a nation tied strongly together by the pillars of unity and common consent .... Democracy. His main task is not to tear and scatter others, but to collect and hold together his own. The Laurel wreath within which we have enclosed the Father of our country-is our symbol of peace, around him, who was First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Our symbols are those of 'Unity-Democracy-Peace.

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Y.. QQ l , 5 M s 3- -, t-YN .v vbnp, A , '2- s2tg,s1r11sI':,f y I 'AP' W W FOREWORD Freefiomf fast a wont, aiways enjoyed. 'Uery ftesiraoie ami the rlearest ora-oiug when one ims uoue or out fittfe of it. Our fathers, you who lmve Laiit tire fouuziatious rf tlzis country, we who proft Ly tlze fruits rf your labor, we thank you. W e thank you hr the estaobslzmeut of tile sol1ools-- tile remit dt which we uow eljoy- H74' tuaufq you for tire Laws which you framed ami tlzrougu wffzeu you eruieavorezi to make us free, just auft equat- We tuauk you for tile courage and spirit you ziispfayeft in your work, wuicu we have always euerisuezl - Your laws izafve matte as free of any Lonztage, uueouferuezi about tue possibility of the pressure :fan iron giove ou our freezloru, ami ltas given us room for imuest tlzozigat ami its expression.