Garden City High School - Mast Yearbook (Garden City, NY), Class of 1943, Page 11 of 80

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'ML .1204 af fl. Pali. . . ww! fl. jufure The first crowded days of Iune . . . loafing in the sun on the front steps . . . hurried cramming for exams . . . and finally - graduation. Everything came so quickly that there was little time for reminiscing. But all of us felt, in these last warm days, a nostalgia quite distinct from our habitual spring fever. Perhaps we will forget the sentence structure, the theorems, the speed tests and quizzes. But long after these have faded into the past, we will remember the thrill of the first touchdown on a crisp Saturday in the fall . . . joking with our favorite teachers . . . that sinking feeling before exams . . . the satisfaction of having done all our homework just once . . . and leaving school on the last day, with the green lawn shadowed by the elms, and the white columns shining in the sun. We are more than a little sad as we look over the past four years - and we are proud, too. Sad, because we are leaving behind us old friends and pleasant times - and proud because we feel that we are prepared to serve our home, our community and our country in order to help in the fight for a free, civilized world. The war became an important part of our school and home life this year. Some of our classmates left in Ianuary to join the armed forces or to benefit by an extra year of college. War stamps and bond drives became a daily reminder that we must sacrifice to win. We hopefully started and proudly concluded our bomber drive, and saw several jeeps roll off the assembly line as a result of our efforts. Early spring brought victory gar- dens, a successful Red Cross Drive, air raid alerts: and in the afternoons after school, we could hear the sharp commands of the Student Training Corps. Pre-flight classes and war courses were added to our curriculum. A Student War Board worked to coordinate the war effort of the school. And this small but important war effort has been a foundation for a greater under- standing of our responsibility to our country in this unprece- dented emergency. So it is with pride, with assurance and with faith in what the future will bring that we graduate in this year of 1943. We are proud of our school: and in this crisis, when the future of our country rests in our hands, we will endeavor to make our school equally proud of us. 7

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