Frederick Douglass High School - Survey Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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YOUTH ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE Modern youth us charged wuth a seruous and weughty responsubuluty lnto the hands of the younger genera tuon wull be placed the truals and trubulatuons of thus war torn world lt wull be the duty of youth to brung about order and uustuc from chaos and turmoul un order to establush a lastung peace In fact the fate of the world wull soon rest on the shoulders of the young er group The magnutude and seruousness of thus sutuotuon fulls youth wuth awe but they shall not be daunted because they have been prepared Thus preparatuon started by parents has contunued throughout theur en ture school lufe Each branch of educatuon has created and developed some desured characterustucs necessary for assumung responsubuluty Scuence for example Increases accuracy and care ful observatuon two qualutues whuch wull help youth to do a uob well Mathematucs plays uts part through em phasuzung quuck thunkung and Iogucal reasonung whuch wull be essentual an solvung and decudung complex prob lems Then too because of the development of the guages the task of post war reconstruction wull seem a trufle easuer Englush must also be remembered for uts contrubutuons toward the preparatuon of youth for ts uob Thus subject umpresses upon the mund of the stu J EAN N E PARROTT dent the proper manners of expressung oneself orally and on paper and un addutuon, teaches the correct procedures and conduct to be practuced at all tumes Thus unformatuon us vutal to the leaders of tomorrow Moreover, such extra currucular actuvutxes as Art MUSIC and Oral Englush do much for the cultural sude by de velopung apprecuatuon tor the better thungs Of life Such understandungs wull unspure youth to brung about a lastung peace Funally but probably most umportant of all are the habuts and qualutues uncovered by assocu atuon wuth others un the cafeterua and study halls Here cooperatuon and consuderatuon of the rughts of others are requusutes Therefore when carrued over unto every day lufe these qualutues wull make the younger genera tuon better cutuzens Because youth has been so well prepared and some wull be even better prepared when they have completed further unstructuons un educatuon, thus group feels con fudent that they wull be ready to take theur place un the world and do everythung un theur power to make ut a better place un whuch to Iuve Thus, we the gradu atung class of February 45 accept the challenge to the best of our opportunutues and to be ever alert for new and better udeas so that we may brung about uus tuce and equaluty and lastung peace un the postwar world AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ADULT WORLD Thus war of luberatuon un the century of the com mon man has brought all peoples together to fught for somethung un whuch they belueve However the mulluons of young men black and whute Jewush and gentule of all reluguous creeds socual envuronments natuonalutues and polutucal beluefs, who have been un ducted unto the armed forces from all sectuons of the globe and have fought sude by sude un foxholes and on battleshups wull not return to a status quo partucularly un Ameruca They have traveled the world over and have been broad ened by ut they have Deen thrust un wuth men of all types and varyung untellugence The mauoruty of them l belueve have duscovered how small the world actually us and they realuze the unterdependence of natuons and of man humself They wull want to return to a Iufe un whuch a man us esteemed because of the qualutues of hus character rather than hus color or reluguon The hugh school graduate of today who us cogmzant of the problems of the world realuzes some of the un adequate solutuons of age old duffucultues He us neuther duscouraged by the sutuatuon nor us he greatly enthusu astuc over some Utopuan scheme for abolutuon of those perplexutues He merely wants to have hus chance to solve these problems un hus own way wuthout undue obstructuon He us determuned, nevertheless, to pre vent the blunders of the past that have now become so glarungly apparent The world does not stand stull there are euther pro gressuve forces or reactuonary forces un command We are determuned that the reactuonarues wull be defeated and we wull move forward We may make mustakes but we wull profut from them We ask your undulgence and your help so that we the voters and leaders of tomorrow may contrubute our achuevements to the progress of the world Suncerely, FREDERICK SCOTT u U . . . - , ' ' ' . V u . . e - . - ' ' ' ' I ' I . , . . . . , I . . A A A I - I , ' . . - e - I I T . . I . . . . . - , . 1 - I , - , , , . memory and concentrative powers through foreign lan- Continue fo grow and increase our knowledge: to mqke , - A ' ' ' 5 - . , . A i , , , , - u U , ,, . . ,, , ,, . . . . . . . I . . . . .- I I I . . U . -fu , I . . ' ' - I I , . , . , l , . 9

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'THE WORLD TURNS TO YOUTH In the msdst of chaos and confusuon the hopes of a wretched, ravnshed world are focused on IIS youth Our elders have made a seemnngly hopeless tangle of natIon al and Internatuonal affaIrs It wIIl be up to us t straughten out thus tangle The old folks started a global war, and already mIllIons upon mIllIons of youngsters have sacrIfIced thelr Iuves and futures It IS the task of the rest of our generatnon to conclude the war and to estabIIsh and enforce an endurmg peace We must see that IUSIICC rather than vengeance IS practnced ID our post war treatment of the Axus natsons RacIal dIscrImInatIon wIll prove dlsastrous We must mp potenhal aggressors In the bud and we must stop future HItIers before they start We must advocate world brotherhood and peaceful arbatratnon of dnsputes We must maIntaIn a world poluce force to show that we mean busIness We must see that rIsIng natuons such as lndla, Chlna and the phlllpplnes get a good deal from theur snster countrues and that they learn the op EUGENIA WILLIAMS POFIUDIIICS whuch a true democracy offers Democracy? Perhaps an ImmedIate Iob wIll be to Improve the socnal, economnc, and moral lot of the Negro race, and to promote satlsfactory relateons wath the whute man We as Negroes are optImIstIc The blood of Whlfe and colored young Amencans IS mnngled on the gory altar of War Can such a bond be broken by petty preIudIce7 The ultra conservatives are stnll fnght Ing the CIvIl War It IS our pob to break up conserva tusm and to lIve pacIfIcally wnth ourselves and our whate nelghbors We have a tremendous task ahead of us lt IS our herntage In Chana we are the Students, who are makmg ChIna Into a powerful modern natnon ln Europe we are the savers of our natrve lands from the Nazss ln Germany we are the vuctnms of a brutal New Order In Ameruca we are such orgamzatnons as Amerucan Youth for Democracy The world turns to Youth and Youth ralhes to the call YOUTH FACES THE TASK IMPOSED BY THE WORLD As we the graduatIng class of February nlneteen hundred forty fIve approach the end of our publnc school lufe we realnze that we are about to Inhent a world of tumult, strnfe and dnsorder All the Intrlcate problems of todays world wIll become ours to solve lt wIlI be up to us together wnth the remaunder of our generatnon to cross the barrIers of natIonalIty race, and rellgnon to facIlItate the maIntenance of a har monIous world It wIlI be our duty to see that twenty years hence our chaldren wIll not march once more INTO the grIm fnelds of conflnct We must and the mass es of people to elevate themselves to that level of human dIgnIty to whIch everyone IS entntled To accomplnsh these thIngs wall requlre the utmost In polutlcal leadershIp Therefore, I shall attempt to prove that my generatIon IS fully equlpped to meet the challenge of the new world To substantiate thls Vlew let us take a glance at the preparatnons whuch tomar rows cItIzens are recenvung even now There have been many modes of IndoctrInatIon, but perhaps the most outstandnng have been the lessons learned In war, for here It was that cooperatuon was unvenled as the keynote to the future Our youngsters know that thus does not apply to Internatuonal relatnons The utmost cooperatuon must be shown between all con flnctmg Interests whether natnonal or Internatuonal In character ln an equally outstandung though less spectacular role we fund the natuon s schools Today s educatuonal InstItutIons not only seek to Increase the student s edu catnonal growth but also to supplement thIs growth JOHN GLOSTER wuth InItIatIve resourcefulness Independence economuc understandIng relIabIlIty, and respect These thang accomplIshed by such extra currIcular OCIIVIIIES as dra matIcs sports publlc speakmg school Iournahsm bank Ing and student government For our thurd and fInal glnmpse of youth s educatuon for the task let us look Into the communnty Knownng the value of expernence as a tutor our young people have not wanted for matunty to thrust upon them the dutIes of lIfe Instead they have asked for and ac cepted Important responsIbIlItIes In the communnty A home In churches yes even In the dIffIcult fleld of polItIcs youth has alded In the allevIatIon of commumty problems Who among us has not read of the feats of youth In partIally solvxng IIS own problem of Iuvennle delmquencyr' ComIng even closer to home we can poInt to the BaItImore Inter Hugh School Congress, whlch for the fIrst tIme crossed raclal and FEIIQIOUS barruers to become an outstandung commumty organnzatnon do Ing IIS utmost to see that youth does not Shlfk IIS duty to IIS country Doubtless too you have heard of the YMCA s Youth IN Government expernment I thls project Amerlcas youth sat In formal SESSION at state capltals enactmg statutes some of whuch were later presented to the offucual state legnslatave bodIes ln thus same manner, the youth of today wall soon step Into the shoes of the polItIcIans, statesmen, dnplo mats, and, most Important, the voters of today Wnth a background so full of preparatuon youth, of whnch our class IS an Inseparable part, wIIl march confudently Into the brIght new realm of the future I ll . 0 ' ' X , . . - - - - 11 11 1 A , I T . ll Y ll 1 ' I I I - I I . 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EDITORIAL STAFF Edutors n Chnef JEANNE PARROTT EUGENIA WILLIAMS Assocnate Editors ELAINE MATTHEWS FRED SCOTT Luterary Edutors ELIZABETH DODSON DELORES DOUGLASS JOHN GLOSTER JAMES WALTERS Assustants VERNICE FERGUSON RALPH MATTHEWS VERNA BELLE MILLER Speclal Features DONALD BROWN GEORGINE NEWMAN SARA COPELAND SARAH ROBINSON Assnstants WILLIAM AMES MARGARET COLEMAN HELEN DILWORTH WILLIAM GRAHAM JEAN HILLEN LORRAINE ERSKINE LOIS STRICKLAND Sports Edxtor JOSEPH COOK Assxstants FRANCES HACK FANNIE MINOR Humor Edutors BERNICE BEARD BERNADINE BERRY FLORIED SMITH IDELLA THOMPSON MARGARET WALLACE Reporters BEATRICE BROWN SHIRLEY COATES JUDITH EDWARDS MABEL HILL KATE DAWSON DORIS HOPE ANNA STAFFORD Managnng Edutors ELAINE MATTHEWS HARRIET PAGE Asslstant Managmg Edvtors SARA COPELAND JUDITH EDWARDS FANNIE MINOR Advnser MISS ESSIE MEADE HUGHES MANAGERIAL STAFF Busmess Managers KATHLEEN WALLACE DONALD BROWN ARTHUR SCRIBNER Assistants SHIRLEY COATES LORRAINE ERSKINE PINKIE WEBSTER Patron Managers HAZEL BURKE FRANCES HACK JUDITH EDWARDS DELORES DOUGLASS DORIS HOPE JEANNE PARROTT KATHERINE STITH ATHLEA JOHNSON DOUGLASS DORIS HOPE JEANNE PARROTT KATHERINE STITH ALTHEA JOHNSON Secretarnes EMMA JOHNSON EFFIE MCLEAN JOYCE LYNTON RUTH PHILLIPS BERNICE MATTHEWS MARGARET WALLACE FANNIE MINOR Advertnsmg Managers JOHN GLOSTER JOE COOK WM GRAHAM JAMES WALTERS Assnstants BEVERLY BUTLER LULU HUDSON JOHN REEDER FLORIED SMITH FRED SCOTT Treasurers JOE COOK WILLIAM GRAHAM Members of Staff BERNICE BEARD BERNICE BROWN BERNADINE BERRY KATE DAWSON ELIZABETH DODSON MARTHA COLE MARGARET COLEMAN LORETTA CRYOR ALFREDA CHEATHAM HELEN DILWORTH MARIAN DAVIS, HAZEL GRAY, KATHERINE FREEMAN, SHIRLEY HENRY, CATHERINE MANNING, MARY JAMES, DORIS LEVI, VERNA BELLE MILLER, SARAH ROBINSON, LOIS STRICKLAND, TOMMAE POAG, WILLIAM AMES IO 1 A -I - ' W , Y YY,,, W , Y ,W . ,,,,,, ,,,,.,, .... . ..,, , ,,,,.. . . ,.,, ' , H , W ,, ,L,,, ., , , 1 I I I ' K , ,. ,,,, , , , 1 I H Y ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 Artist ,, . , , . , ..,, , ,..,,., ,, ,,,,, ,L , CHARLES COLLIER A -- ,,,-- A A 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . ..,,,,,,,, ,,,, , 1 1 1 I ' I I I '----' -- Y V f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 A ' I I I I 1 1 I A Y 1 1 ' 1 I - f Y 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I