Lafayette High School - Oracle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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NE could say fhaf of all four years spenf af Lafayeffe fhus has been fhe mosf unuque for fhe Senuors of l945 whaf wufh school nof openung unful Ocfober and fhen beung closed for several rnfervals as a resulf of fhe hurrucane advenf of Olcl Man Wunfer wufh hus accompanyung frealcush sforms Thus loss of fume no doubf added maferually fo fheur woes as fhey frued fo concenfrafe fhe acquusufuon of all requurecl lcnowledge Info so shorf a peruod Laborung under duffucu'fues desugned fo malce an acud fesf of fheur sfamuna fhey were nof found wanfung un defermunafuon and abulufy fo funush fhe race successfully whule fhey followed Lafa yefle s moffo Be Sfrong and of a Good Courage l do apprecuafe under whaf abnormal condufuons you have spenf your hugh school years l do undersfand how duffuculf fo malce fhe decusuons are when fhere us almosf no fume fo make fhem I do realuze how much more seruously fhose same decusuons may affecf your luves fhan fhey would under normal condufuons and I can fhrough unnum bered 'rallcs wufh our boys and gurls un servuce foresee af ueasf fo some exfenf fhe problems you are unevufably facung Agaunsf fhe uncerfaunfues of fhe fufure uf us my sunceresf hope 'rhaf Lafayeffe has provuded you wlfh a basuc sfore of knowledge useful anywhere a bolsferung moral sfamuna an undyung udeal and a worfhy mofuve fo carry forward fhe hugh fradufuons of fhe fhousands of boys and gurls who have preceded you as loyal members of fhe Vuolef and Whufe leguons My sunceresf wrsh for you us fhaf you wull be fruly successful un whafever you aspire fo do fhaf your achuevemenfs wull brung you and undurecfly your Alma Mafer fhe creduf you deserve fhaf you wull ever remaun an unfegral parf of fhus school and fhaf your lufe may be luved Lovally Honorably replefe wufh Servuce fo all whom you confacf Your pruncupal who remauns suncerely your fruend AJ M kj Zfaefffffsf X W 27 T O T HE SEN l O R S

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O ITH +he hope an our hea 'rs of a new and peaceful world we +he class of l945 welcome ou V lory will so n be o s vlcfory we deeply hope over The udeologses and elhsh amouhons of lhose who sow d 'rhe dragon s +ee+h of hafred and vuolence Le? us sfruvc lo dug oul lhe :Her ools o lhese ev and deslruchve planls wh ch poison lhe soul of freedom so +l'a'r by fhemr exhrpahon we may pu? an end lo man s lnhurnanaly lo man of whuch we hav had so norrzble an example rn fhus war May +has campaign for he wlnnung of a new world enlnsl 'rhe hearls of every hugh school graduafe of loday For If ns our duly and prnvnlege lo re educafe lhe duslorled mnnds of our enemues 'ro +he poun+ where fhey wvll be able +o live amlcably wn+h o+her nahons We musf grasp lhe opporfumly which will be furnished af fhe end of fhls war and never abandon 1+ We musf pul all our slrengfh behind a plan whuch would banish halred le-alousy and preluduce among nahons If we fall un lhls now 1+ IS more fhan lulcely we may never survuve a lhord world war New :ns+rumen+s of dea+h whvch would be un +ne hands of aggressive powers could brmg a nahon +0 'folal chaos In a shorler hme Than ever previously dreamed of by man Lel us loolc forward +o a worldwide brofherhood where we are no+ merely v:c+or nous over a rrwe buf 'rrlumphanl over wrong where we are nol' merely successful rn deslroyung buf an burldnng Lei' us loolc forward and plan for a period of reconversnon which shall mean nol' merely deslroymg +he war machrnery un our planfs bu+ a recon versuon of hearls and minds lo 'rhe new worlc of bunldrng a world where we may Lave an harmony and unlly wn+n all +he powers of lhe earlh LOUISE CRAWFORD Ze SALUTAT R