Draper High School - Draperian Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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HOWARD E. BAKER Our Principal High school graduates in i945 will have achieved their goal despite many distractions. The needs of the war and indus- try have caused many of your classmates to leave school before graduation. You have been urged to work part time and you have responded. The war has taken your attention from some of the apparently less important phases of your life to the detri- ment of your studies. l congratulate you who finish high school. Yours is a real achievement. The war and conditions resulting from it have caused a considerable drop in nation wide high school enrollment. This means that fewer replacements are available for the professions and skilled trades. Already many professions are feeling the lack of educated and trained personnel. In a very few years this condition will be even more acute. Each high school gradu- ate should take advantage of every opportunity to advance his or her education. The industrial, social, and economic needs of our democracy must be met by today's pupils, properly educated and trained. HOWARD E. BAKER, Principal.

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EARL B. ZIMMER Superintendent of Schools The high school pupils of i945 are very uncertain about the future. The war is still with us and must be brought to a successful conclusion. Reconstruction of a war torn world must follow as surely as day follows the night. The problems will be many and very complicated because of the peculiar abstract human character traits we all possessg therefore, the preparation in education must be increased and improved. Opportunities for the returning service women and men must be varied and sympathetic to fulfill the requirements of individual differences. The world now filled with hate must become a world filled with a feeling of good-will toward all people. This is a very large order to fill, but no other adjustment will justify the sacrifices of service people or assure that civilization will reach higher goals. Peace is a product of kindliness and war a product of hate and evil. Therefore, the average persons must want and deserve peace by their acts and feelings if we are to avoid another world catastrophe. EARL B. ZIMMER, Superintendent.

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O PX STURGESS . GEORGE . ' dent MR Presx Q- E EM MR. HAROLD BURNS x Mr, H. X. REHOE Secrekaw MR. HENRY O, SYYTNER ND MCN MR. RPOIMO My-4x MR. CH ARLES LeGERE PNB MR. EARL B. ZXMMER Superintendent of Schooh ' 8