Draper High School - Draperian Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

 - Class of 1950

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Editorial The class of 1950 is leaving Draper High. And all over the nation this scene is being duplicated as thousands of high school students graduate to cli- max thirteen years of learning. How fortunate we are to be in America where we have the oppor' tunity of acquiring an education. We are introduced to the twentyfsix letters of our alphabet and learn to mold them into hundreds of words and use them to express everything we encounter and feel within us. We learn to read, and arc transported into a world that an illiterate can never know. Since we know how to read and write we can study other subjects, and knowledge is absorbed by our eager minds. Reading can also give us relaxation, for we have the world at our fingertips. Books 'can transport us to the world as others knew it. We witness the building of Egypt's pyramids, see the games in the Colosseum, and march with Napoleon. The history and knowledge of the world is ours for the asking. While at school we do more than learn from books and after graduation a and we are with the school. Cur UIOYC than teac Own ways, they GUI' surely endeavor to The years face a peace. This years wars But today the atomic all the greed is the cause much and eventually the and fear of power many people in C0UntfY4Hfe I 4 ' power in the hands of fanatics begins to reign. Such is the case of Russia. The Stalinist regime control of the country and for years has Struck f ar into the hearts of the people. Some ' if . . . years ago an attempt was made to industrialize l has assumed, the government seized much of the the farming masses. The result was ion, and to add to this hundreds of resisted were taken to their slaughter g death in labor camps. HOW different is our life in America. fear is ive hear about on mystery radio pro' widespread want is unheard of. Our inly interested in slick convertibles and creation. In many countries young peo' Russia and crops from ml1SS st lI'VH those who or to a livin something i grams and youth is ma, extensive re ple must work soon after they are old enough to walk so they can have one or two meals a day, and perhaps meat once a week. When we hear march- ing, we gather that a parade is near, while in a dictatorship it can mean death or imprisonment because you are suspected . If we but heed a few simple laws, designed for our own good, we can do pretty well what we please. Then war comes: and mothers watch the sons they still think of as little boys go off to be killed or maimed. We say it must never happen againa till the next time. We have tried to prevent war, even whole' heartedly at times. The League of Nations was a joke, but the U.N. can be successful. But we need much more than the U.N.-we need God. His 10 Commandments can deliver us from the horrors of war. If we followed them there could be no wars because wars are the outgrowth of greed and hate, and the Commandments tell us to love our neighf bor and not to want the property of others. There can be no lasting peace so long as people are evil. Everyone must abide by the Commandments so that the peoples of all countries love their neighbors, If everyone practices the 10 Commandments and bears in his mind that he must do unto others as he would have them do unto him, the time of strife will end. And all this is not impossible, for the subjugated peoples can rise above their oppressors and be free to have a life worth living. If we all look to Cod nothing is impossible, for He will help us. And we must start now so the word will spread. Let the U.N. start on the right track, the only track to peace, and the crazed dictators will be overcome. Then one day we will see the time when there is truly peace on earth and good will toward men. Y 'i 'l ,r r ' i 5 Da g' . , an-We , fi? T: 15 .1 ig. 'ra ,ra 7 T t gagg.?s,g4.:2ASfi if . Walter Cegelski, Editorfinffflticf

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-....... iii:-41.-un-uh-n Mr. john Mullen Miss janet Sheiiield 'W' Miss Marguerite Chouiriard Mrs. Mary Wier The Deans



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Howard E lhilicr' How fortunatc it is that hcrc in this Country, thc hoys antl girls of tccn-age havc thc opportunity to go to school, riclc in cars, frccly hold tlown part' tinic liolws, thc inoncy from which they can spend as thcy wish, to coinc and go pretty much as thcy plcasc, in short to hyc thc normal, hcalthy livcs that Clotl intcntlctl young pcoplc to live, This wc call thc rights of a tlcinocracy. At thc saint' tiinc that you havc hccn cnioying thcsc rights, you hayc hccn studying and learning a grcat many things. Tlit-sc arc to prcparc you for a scconcl part of your living in our socicty, to inalcc it possihlc for you to pcrlorm the duties of a tlcniocracy. Your faculty antl your school has attcmptctl to wholcsomcly tlcyclop laoth your apprcciation of your rights antl an awarcncss of your nlutics as citizcns. l .llUCUl1Vll1L't'Ll tlic Class of 1950 of Drapcr High School will lall into stcp with thosc who hayc lclt l7rapcr lwcforc you antl work towards thc goal ull a grcatcr clcmocracy. Norman Rowcll Principal Prhujpal Eiwiu ,.gg, l Norman S. Rowell Superunendenl lviany pcoplc rcgard the ycar 1950, the midpoint ol' the ccntury, as a sort ol' inilcfpost inarl-Qing the hcginning ol' a hcttcr cra. Tha last half of the ccnl tury may or may not hc hcttcr than thc first half clcpcnthng on how wcll its prohlcins arc solyccl. Clracluation from high school is a inilcfstonc in your hvcs. Succcss in your school actiyitics intlicatcs succcss in othcr actiyitics ot' lifc, I congratulatc you on your prcscnt achicycincnt and wish you succcss in your luturc cntlcayors. Howard E. Bakcr Supcrintcnclcnt l ini '

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