Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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What Are You Going to Use For Money? ae he You have been accustomed to high wages in the relatively short time you have been a wage earner. Your parents have told you about the depression (economic crisis) which preceded this war. Even as recently as 1939, upper-classmen in this school were covering morning paper ro utes ond were glad of the chance to earn the money. Such days will come again. Vet- erans will be given their old jobs back or they will be given preference for new ones. The wages they will receive will be far less than many of you are receiving right now. . Be not deceived by any bureaucratic mouth- ings about “Jobs for Everyone,” ‘World Wide Prosperity,” and ‘Freedom from Want”. Taxes will not be reduced. Prices will not be reduced. Until reconversion to a peacetime economy has been completed, jobs will be scarce. During this period of re-adjustment what will you be using for money? War Bonds, of course. Every one of you who has been putting every possible penny into stamps and bonds will ride through the post-war economic storm on the money you've in- vested. Was there ever such a chance to be selfish and patriotic at the same time as there is now? You help our nation and you insure ‘our own well-being in the difficult post-war rears. Buy War Bonds now so that you may ce reaay ior the Peace. nl el

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT We, the class of 1945, gratefully dedicate our Yearbook to our class advisor, MR? EVERETI@ DONNELLY; who, through his tireless efforts and deep under- standing, has helped us to reach our goal.

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LEST WE FORGET kkk .oon we of the Class of 1945 will be waving L. H. S. for the last time. Behind us we will leave a most interesting and glorious part of our lives. Some of us will go on to college to further our studies; others will go to work; still others will go off to join some service to fight for this beloved land of ours. No matter what we take up after our school days are over we will all have a common goal to drive for and that is to succeed at whatever task we undertake. Who started us on our glorious careers? Our school teachers. How often we take our teachers and their work for granted. We should not. Why? Simply because without teachers we would have no schools. The public schools are the foundation of our country’s greatness, and our country is run by the people. We will soon become those people on whom our country’s might relies. You ask how we can repay our teachers for their work. It is very simple; we only have to show our teachers more considera- tion for their unselfish devotion to our educa- tion and welfare. Also, we can be more willing to do our assignments when they are given to us and do them without a grumble, for, after all, teachers know best. If they didn't they wouldn't be in front of the classroom endeavoring to teach us what they know. We should always think of our teachers not as ‘'slave-drivers’’ who are in school to make us miserable, but as friends who are trying to make us better men and women through education. Lest we forget our teachers let us be more considerate of them now and forevermore. LB allel