Leadville High School - Sentinel Yearbook (Leadville, CO)

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Valedlctory A Dream of Peace This rs Memorial Day a day set aside to remember It is also Commence ment Day a day especially to be remembered by this the graduating class of 1944 ln the larger book of life we seniors began 12 years ago a chapter which we are now compl ting There are many days to be remembered from this chapter That first day of school remember hofv for weeks we had lived rn anticipation of that day when we would start to school Then when that day arrived when the frrst bell rang we were ready with shining faces and neatly combed hair and fresh clean clothes waiting impatiently for mother to get ready Soon we were on our way That was Just the beginning For the next several years as that day rn September rolled around we found ourselves again starting back to school Finally came that long awaited day were high school students We had come a long way to new teache s new systems new names and confusion We began high school as freshmen as a large class numbering seventy three But as we assemble here tonight for the last roll call as the seniors of 44 our ranks have been greatly reduced Some of our members have dropped out of their own volition some have moved away some have passed to the Great Beyond and some have answered our country s call and are today serving under the immortal Stars This rs a day to be remembered Commencement Day the completion of one chapter of our lives and the beginning of another As we stand here on the thres hold of the future at first we are frightened as we vrew such confusion a war torn world bubbling seething chaos We wonder where we may find our rightful places for there rs a place for each and every one of us It is Just like a 11g saw puzzle which when first emptied out of its box is 1ust a mass of unassocrated preces But after hours of work and concentration this mass emerges into a beau trful prcture each piece rn rts own place And so somewhere in that humble Jumble before us we have our places in a prcture which when completed wrll be a picture of Peace and Love and Home When that day comes when every man shall be free free to lrve and love as he wishes free to worship as hrs heart wants free o work for money for food for his children and family with no fear of starvatron Free that word holds so much of potent meaning We who have taken freedom for granted for so long we do not know what horrors the people of conquered nations have endured for their freedom But we do know this tyranny and despotism must never get a foothold on the sorl of a free world and we wrll do our utmost to see that rt never shall In closing I would like to quote A Mans Dream by Richard Kearsley. A man head bowed with humble air Hands clasped in a beseeching prayer To God on high asks Him for peace. 'Tis then with trembling heart he hears A voice and looks to see his peers The men who ve pray-ed for wars to cease In years gone by. To him they say You pray for peace and seek that day When wars are done and men are free' But other wars have stopped and still Of need man fights and always will. Then speaks the man on bended knee: Four things there are man holds supreme And these he visions in his dream Of time to come. Blessed be these lands Where man may speak l'is thoughts and hear His own church call' not his the fear Of tyrants lash' and ripe grain stands For all to share. Pass no one by: Make true his dream and Mars shall die. Thus prayed this man, and so pray we That Labor and Faith may set men free. By Enis Anderson C16 Q 1 -1 if -A- 1- A-A A- The Mount Massive Sentinel ' ' - 4' T ' nt . ' - y ' . . I 7 I ' , N ! -. ' L- y , X . . . . . ' 1 . . 4. ' . ' Y 1 l I . ,I 1 4 V ,v .v , , ,- U ' . ' - - Y ' ,. . . , l Y v 1 1 - Q - r A 1 1 . ' ' 7 ' . , 1 y Q - 1 ' y at 7 and Stripes, in various parts of the world, and now we number just twenty-two. . Q . 1 . -1' Y . , . R Q -Q U r I , . - , , , t , , . Q , V A 5 . I 9 L Q 1 1 Q N 7 . y i ' 1 ' I y ' . , ' rr ' ' - 1 x ! 1 , , 7 ll y 5 1 1 D

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The Mount Vlassrxe Sentrnel Q f Class Song To the tune of CTrll We 'Vleet Ag nm Tho we part and ach wrll go hrs XR ry We wrll meet agarn some other das When the dark clouds turn to blue Then well meet old frrends so true Some wrll not be wrth us on thrs dry Those who se gone o very far away For them xx ho frght well hope and pray Trll we meet agarn Now old f lends we ll trke leave of you For four years were gone along wrth you Now the parting trnfre IS nrgh Trme for us to say goodbye Le'rdv1lle Hrgh has been a frrend rn need And shell always be a frrend rndeed Now we close our hrgh school door The Class of 44 By Agne Ixer rnelJulre Lenarehre Class Poem By Jean Masinpolxio have walked to r red brrek burldrng Many 1 dreary cr y have trod the deep whrte snow We have spun a path of glorv As we strolled to school wrth prrde A path xx hrch seemed so narrow A rd yet extremely wrde We started urth a nnrghty class Srxty sex en rn gallant strength But many of our comrades left For Freedoms cause were lent Though they have left our numbered r rnks Our hearts frght on together We here rn school they on the freld Frght that Freedom lrve forever Now when we sadly old frrevxell To all our frrenels so true When hrgh school days no more shall be But just the unknown blue We hrll go forth vxrth eager hopes And heads held hrgh wrth prrde And xxrth that burnrng fue wrthrn our oul Strengthen our com ades trrde Vlottr BE SLRE XOL ARE RIG lT THEN GO -XHEAD Color VIOLET and SILVER Flon er VIOLETS 113 5 A .. , , . X . K z ' V f, I '1 -, e r . , s ' . . , , . , s ,' f -' , . , ff ' v Q - . 1 . L , Y , , , . .. , . . y I. , , 2 , . , y . ' ' . .. ,H , -, r: ls 'X' 2 ' WC . . . I . , .' . ' ' f v Q lr Y N e cr . We C , r ,. Y ,k ' Whrle walkrng on our' way. ,r - , - , . . - . Y . 1 . v 1 v 1 v' -- , . w ' 'xl ,w 'x V x'e I l - , u i v 1 , . x A 1 v -? A, C xy ' v s 5 2 - 1' s - rn 1 r ' V' -' . 4 V A 7' . ' ' 1 X v ' . L. . . ,. ' ,. .' A h . . r. . . r . . . . . 'sr ' .

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The lVIount 'Vlasswe Sentrnel if f 1 1 Saluiaiory The Call of Amerzca Amerrca 1S a great country a country burlt on the strong foundatron of free dom A country burlt by a people who were brave enough to work to make sacrr frces and even to dre for therr belrefs Here we are today frghtrng for that same freedom facrng a group of mrghty foes who seek our rurn Here we are together defendrng all that to free men dear Twrce rn a srngle gereratron the catastrophe of a world war has fallen upon us Twrce has the long arm of fate reached out across the ocean to brrng the Unrted States rnto the forefront of the battle Do we not owe rt to ourselves to our chrl dren to tormented mankrnd to make sure that these catastrophes do not engulf us for the thrrd trme Do we not owe rt to our freedoms and our happrness to see that they are not agarn engaged rnto another drsastrous conflrct We must not let go of the securrtres we have found necessary to preserve our lrves and our lrbertres Duty and prudence alrke constantly command that rn order to keep these freedoms we must put forth every ounce of strength we have we must do away wrth all tyranny for tyranny rs our foe whatever trapprngs or drsgurse rt wears We must frght on for a mrghty cause Fo Our Cau e It Is Just and that Justrce shall burld the ladder by whrch we clrmb We must overcome hatred and drseases both terrrble camp followers of war We posrtrvely must overcome starvatron The Germans have created unprecedented want rn many European countrres usrng starvatron to force the conquered people to do therr wrll But you can t starve mrnds Those who stand rn the bread lrnes by day move rn the shadows bv nrght crrpplrng the rnvaders Why do they hold on Because they have known what rt meant to be free from want and are wrllrng to dre from re establrshment of that prrncrple We rn Amerrca the land of plenty cannot stand by and watch The peo ple of the wor ld look to us to k ep farth and keep frghtrng They are cryrng out to us We have heard and we are answerrng We are answerrng because rt rs no mere phrase that today we are frghtmg for the polrtrcal cultural, and sprrrtual freedom of smaller natrons Thrs 1S a peoples war therefore rt must be a peoples peace The mam objectrve must be co operatron to get rrd of mrsery and rnsecurrty to get rrd of savagery and tyranny to tear out from our hrstory books the thrngs that prejudrce one people agarnst another We are answerrng b cause Democracy as a frghtrng farth rs farth rn the freedom or the common people farth rn the capacrty of the common people to create a world more human and more decent and more just than any world a tyrant or a demagovue or any so called revolutronarv party or any self appornted arrstocracy of wealth and talents can rmpose upon them Democracy as a frghtrng farth rs an affrrmatrve farth a farth rn freedom for not freedom from a farth rn the peoples freedom to create therr future for themselx es A future secure of freedom Freedom rs the herrtage of the Amerrcan crtrzen It ls hrs oblrgatron to cherrsh rt rn peace and to defend rt rn war He especrally acknowledges thrs oblrgatron when he dons a unrform to frght for the preserx atron of thrs freedom To the astonrshment of our enemres we are now rn thrs natron one hundred and thrrty mrllron souls unrted rn one cause Makrng up thrs effrcrent body of men who are today protectrng our freedoms our lrves and our chrldrens democracy by leavrng therr loved ones therr homes and proudly grvrng therr lrves are many of the boys who would be here tonrght among us proudly wearrng caps and gowns ready to go forth rnto a changrng world Those who wrll also make up thrs effrcrent body and who wrll leave Us shortlv are the bovs and some of the grrls who are wrth Us tonrght Tonrght they are proudly wearrng therr caps and gowns but tomorrow they shall be wear mg The Call of Amerrca for they wrll be strengthenmg our gallant allres that our torch mrght on the battle frelds and on the home fronts burn on wrthout ever flrckerrng burn on to accomplrsh what the peoples of the world most cherrsh, our homes our happrness our freedoms Thus to the youth of Amerrca there rs that call whrch says You cannot stop' There rs no haltrng place at thrs pornt' We have now reached a pornt rn the Journey where there can be no pause We must go on We must and shall fulfrll the Call of Amerrca' One equal temper of herorc hearts made weak by trme and fate but tr ong rn wrll to strrve to seek to frnd and not to yrcld By Jean Mastrrpolrto 117 r . ee eeef ---e W fe ee -e-We e- 1' I y - . , - , . S 1 . . , , , IS ' 1 1 A 1 . i , . ' as . - ,. ' ' X .E , ' 1 1 . , l . , ' 1 ' , 1 . 4 , . ' ' ' - - ' ' 1 1 1 - ' . 2 . X I . . V . . ' 1 . '. 1 . .N . , . , ' 1 1 . - 9 . x , 1 1 o ' . , .-. . t . , 1 , . 1 ' ' 1 . . , . . 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 . 1 .. ' - ra - 11 ' ' ' 1 1 ' D , . . . H . ' - - 1 1 4 . V. . . I . 2 -1 -5 1 1 1 ' V .' '