Jackson County High School - Aiyukpa Yearbook (Walden, CO)

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geese our ideas of time and distance. There will be no barriers of sea or land. This is not a vision, it is a reality. We who live in the United States know not what it means to have our land torn by falling bombs: our coastlines and harbors full of ruined and sinking ships, and our skies dimmed by pilots with their bombers, fighter planes, and transports. On Africa's sun- baked battlefield, and Russia's bloody lines, are soldiers, not just Americans but of every race, looking forward to that day of victory and to a successful post-war program. Classmates, and the youth of America, no other graduating classes have graduated during our lives which face as critical a period as the one ahead of us. No other class has faced as many opportunities and responsibilities in the life ahead. No other class has to consider so carefully along what lines it should work. We are the ones who must respond and fulfill the dream and hope of the men in the battle fronts. Eagerly we stretch out our hands to help bring back the peace and security which is now gone. Let us prepare to secure the four freedoms: freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, and to protect them in the future. With the closing of this occasion today when we cease to exist as a high school class, it becomes my duty to say farewell. We say farewell to the Board of Education. Thank you for your wisely applied wisdom. To the members of the faculty, we say farewell. They have guided and developed our individual possibilities, not only as our teachers but as our friends. Although we will not say farewell to our parents, we wish to thank you for mak- ing our public school system possible. We hope that our benefits will repay you for your work. Classmates, we may bid each other farewell but there will be no farewell between us. As we each go our different ways in life, we will always be held together by the common possession of the ideals and principles taught during our four years in this school. 1943 I LIP I'o1'ijf viqlfl

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gem Valedictory Mary Jayne Willford RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE YOUTH TODAY We who are graduating in this class of 1943 are facing the most important prob- lems yet faced by any class to graduate during our lives. Many times we have been told that the success or failure of future generations rests upon our shoulders. As we grad- uate tonight we are setting out into a world of uncertainty. Many of our boys will soon be on their way to the fighting fronts, all of us will be doing our share to win this war. The purpose of all of this is now to defeat the enemy, and to preserve our present ideals which will lead to the structure of a better life. Out of this war of horror and destruc- tion, will be a day of opportunity and happiness for all. We are the ones who must pave the pathway to a glorious future. As we respond to the winning of this war and to the building of a greater post-war civilization, we will be burdened with many obligations and responsibilities, which will soon be oursg we must investigate and seek solutions so that we will be valuable thinkers as well as well-informed citizens, so that we can carry out our democratic system successfully. Many of us are content to depend upon decisions of men we do not know. We hope that the laws and bills they pass will insure peace and protect our liberties. But we must not just be content to hope and to pay taxes, and then think that we have done our share. Our responsibility does not end there. This very war is being fought to pro- tect our right to do more than to be silent and to pay our taxes. We know our first duty is to win this warg however we must not become too en- grossed in winning this war that we should forget all plans for future peace. We do not expect this war to last all of our lives and therefore we must train for the place for which we are fighting. The next decade or two will be important yearsg years that will count much in our future civilization. We are facing many responsibilities, but also opportunities, as we graduate at this time. It is not just the JCHS class of 1943, but young Americans throughout the land who are graduating in the classes of 1943 who are going to be responsible for important pages now being written in history books. In this world which we will be facing, business transactions and all forms of con- tacts will be carried on in a rapidly shrinking world. Already the airplane has changed 1943 l'f1gv f ur'l-11-smw

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geese - Salutatory Marjorie H azen INSPIRATION For several Years we have been day-dreaming about graduation. Always it has seemed that it would never really come to us. Still we worked toward that end, saw others graduate in classes ahead of us, and looked forward to the day that we would be the ones to welcome parents and friends to our graduating exercises. The hour has arrived now and it is my pleasure, on behalf of the Senior Class of 1943, to welcome you to our graduation. The very thought of graduating from high school and being on our own creates within us an inspiration. Inspiration denotes something awaking, something quicken- ing, something to be expected in high artistic achievement. Inspiration is something of which the youth of the land graduating from high schools today would like to have more. It is true, perhaps, that all youth has wanted inspiration since the beginning of time. It is even more true that the youth of today desires a sense of values, a sense of the true worth of life even to a greater extent than any other generation. Most of us have grown up in a period of world-sweeping events. Most of us realized the confusion of the great depressiong most of us are being im- pressed each day with the fact that we are coming out of school in the most critical period of American history. The far-reaching effects of the present great struggle for renewal of the rights of men is an inspiration for anyone. Deep in the heart of every boy or girl lies an ambition to become great. Especially is this true as more and more is learned of those immortal names that have been handed down to us with all their histories of great and heroic achievements. To study the noble deeds and great advancements of others is to long to do something equally as grand ourselves, and we are inspired with a burning desire of some opportunity for the display of heroism or strength of character. We would all like to immortalize our names for future generations, but when we stop to think about how to do it we are lost. We see how far short we are of what seems necessary to do those things. Every- thing seems to be against us. It is discouraging and again and again the call of youth is Give us this day an inspiration. 1943 151111 I-'orly-1