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

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DEAD END There us no tanguble sugn or warnung pountmg out the barruer whuch us the dead end of many youths who are graduated from senuor hugh school Nevertheless the dead end us there a barruer so hgh that t s almost insurmountable so made on euther sude and a yawnung cavuty so deep un the earth that ut us unevutable defeat for those who attempt to descend uts depths and try once more to scale uts heughts Yes there us a dead end for the graduate who us so spuneless that hus convuctuons are changed by the ma lucuous and butter crutncusm of an everwautung world for a certaun type of graduate Such a graduate has schooled humself for twelve lengthy years only to emerge as one who lacks the courage and untuatuve to put unto practuce the knowledge he has acquured un school Malevolent elements of the world awaut the graduate who us shrftless urresponsuble and laggardly who slupped through hus enture school years scarcely makung the grade and who un the same careless man YOUTH FACES are suddenly seuzed wuth the realuzatuon that we must enter upon extensuve and rough roads Thus fact has never assumed so great proportuons as nom However we the members of the graduatung class have not been totally unaware of the tasks that lue ahead thus we have made our plans Joan, typucal of many wull pursue courses un college Her ambutuon ns to be a socual worker After gradua tuon she, luke others wull realuze her obuectuve un a world where there us such a great demand for socual economuc and moral aduustment Then there us Johnny, the boy who suts across from me un the hustory class room When asked about hus untentuons after graduatuon he looks somewhat aston ushed You see, Johnny was uust eughteen last month and he knows that the answer us only too obvuous us not that he us less patruotuc or less desurous to brung about vuctory It us just that hus lute s dream wull have SARA ROBINSON ner passed through hugh schood umpervuous to the op portunutues offered by hus Alma Mater True such graduates receuved duplomas but what urony There us another sude of the pucture There are some graduates who do not fall un the aforementuoned cate gorues For you grads the dead end holds no dangers uf you are courageous and forbearung enough to endure the cruel lash of butter publuc opunuons lf you stuck to hngh morals uf you set up such morals yourself there us no putfall There us no barruer for you uf every skull ever acquured us practuced every good habut formed us observed and the knowledge learned us exercused un lufe uf you have done your best on every occasuon There us no such hundrance as a dead end for the graduate who has a pu pose and who fughts to further uts devlopment Instead there us a wude and beauteous hughway whuch wull eventually lead to the sunlut heughts of Success SEVERAL ROADS ELAI N E MATTH EWS Johnny wanted to enter law school yet he should not abandon hus plans for there IS always tomorrow The defense undustrues wull be summonung more help un order to keep the machunes of productuon rollung for our fughtung forces Mary and Dorus wull help keep em rollung They had other plans too but they know that war supplues must be produced uf we wush a speedy homecomung for our brothers relatuves and fruends who are and wull be fughtung un numerous corners of the globe Yes there wull be mulluons of Doruses and Marys fughtung on the home front, speedung up the productuon lune for the Johnnues who wull be fughtung to preserve the four freedoms lrrespectuve of the road the Janes the Marys and the Johnnues each un hus respectuve fueld, wull render unestumable servuce un succorung the needed and un re establushung the world on a fruendly tolerant and peace ful basus . . ' ' , ' l ' , ' i i i . . . , . . I , . h U - . . . . , , . u , . t . . . . . u . - . ' r , ' . . , . . I I . D . . , , - . Now that commencement is around the corner, we to remain in the dream stage until victory is won. . . . . J , I I , rl , . . . , I I - - - , , . . - . I . . A I ' I . U l I . . V I A - U I I . . . . I . . . . l It . . . . . . - I . l3

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