Lebanon High School - Lodestone Yearbook (Lebanon, PA)

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FOR FORTY-FIVE hundred years people have been saying, Oh, for the good old days of the forefathersf, Every generation has belittled the rising generation. The young people have been going to the dogs for the last forty-five hundred years. Today we hear much talk about juvenile delinquency and what is wrong with youth. I believe in the American youth, and I have faith in their ability to win this war and the peace to follow. The young soldier of todaycis a better man physically than his dad in 1917. He is taller, stronger, healthier. Figures and facts prove it. The jeep riders of jungle and desert and mountain are better educated, too. In 1917 we were often called a nation of sixth graders. Today as a nation we are somewhere in the ninth grade, and our soldiers on the average have reached the sophomore year. Only 20 per cent of the soldiers in the first world war had ever been to high school or college, while 67 per cent of our present armed forces have attended these institutions. General Brehon H. Somervell, in command of Army Service Forces, stated that 85 per cent of our soldiers had to have some technical training for service in this mechanical army. You only have to stop and think that the war industries are run by men and women of trade and scientific training to realize that our most important preparation for this war began in a million classrooms of this nation before the last war was overf, In this world upheaval, I am especially anxious that our boys and girls have faith in our democratic government, that they will have freedom as individuals to manage their own affairs with regard for the rights of others to do likewise, and that they will have an economic system in which their own ability, instinct, and ambition will have an all-important part in the American way of free enterprise. H. S. BOLAN 8

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BEST WISHES to the graduates of 1944. Our warmest regards are given to you as you face the next task. Great opportunities spring from great needs. Very soon vital human needs will be pressing everywhere. The future calls upon you to find Ways to direct human aspiration toward the wider good and to recapture natural and techno- logical resources for all the people. Your community, your state, and your nation need the influence of your integrity of character and firm stand for the traditional values of your inheritance that America may continue to serve and may make herself worthy to lead the Way to a lasting peace. C. E. GASKINS, Principal SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS CHARLES B. MEISER, President FRANCIS C. WETZEI., IR., Vice-President PETER GAMBER, Secretary IOHN M. SMITH, Treasurer G. HOBART LIGHT, D.D.S. WILMER H. FAUBER LESTER D. WISE l J