Lafayette High School - Oracle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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T0 THE C ITTLE did you think when you entered Lafayette as Freshmen four years ago that you would be leaving the school in the midst of the greatest war the world has ever known. Little did you realize that graduation from high school would hurl you into such a maelstrom of conflicting ideals, with the nations deter- mined to fight to the bitter end for the achievement of such ideals. Little did you suppose that modern democratic and Christian civilization could be so challenged in a world far removed from primitive living. Little did you understand that you would inevitably be drawn to share in and support your own nation in this bitterest of struggles. All that you believed had forever been banished from the world has once more reared its ugly head. Perhaps this has left you dazed and confused-it could scarcely leave a different impression. But you have the priceless heritage of youth, the inborn ability to rebound from and resent all ideas' that the world is lost. You feel strongly and deeply that it must not and therefore cannot be so. Youth makes it possible for you to face inevitable hardships with staunch courage, knowing deep in your heart that right will eventually win as surely as day follows night and season follows season. Renewed strength enables you to lift your bit on the great wheel of united effort. A deeply-grounded faith assures you in its whisperings that an even better world is bound to come from the darkness and toil of the present one. You know that, as always, after the storm the sun will shine. You go forward to share in the opportunities of the new dayg you will perform a better task than your elders. Never have I said to a. Senior Class more sincerely, Grasp and hold fast to Lafayette's motto-'Be Strong and of a Good Courage' No matter where you go, no matter what you may be called on to endure, no matter how sorely you are tried, let it be some small comfort to feel that Lafayette will be standing behind you and wishing for you Strength, a life of Honor and utter Loyalty in the Service of your Country.

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I SENICR CLASS POEM IDIE lingers, stops for no one,- With steady march wars have begun. As one life ends, new life is born, W'hile worlds built well are often torn Apart, as day is done. Our four years here have hastened by. Quickly, pleasantly, you and I Have learned. And now we leave to face A world perturbed, quickened in pace, Resolved hate to defy. Democracy must reign. ' patriots cried. That they might leave, both far and wide, A continent where voices sing Dear God, let endless freedom rin gf, Americans have died. Fond inemories will never fade g Struggles we face we'll not evade. The war-torn world seems black to ford So thus, this June, we shall march toward Our tasks, determined though afraid! Lois Herman