Lincoln High School - Totem Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Behind the doors where the bust of Abraham Lincoln gazes into the future, two thousand students are attending classes. For 38 years the sons and daughters of Wallingford and Northend families have bridged the gap between adolesc- ence and adulthood within the walls of Lincoln High School. Back in 1907 when Lincoln was completed, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Henry Ford was beginning his new-tangled contraptions and the Philadelphia baseball team was winning ball games. Through these years, Lincoln has witnessed great events, a furious battle between the nations of the World in 1916, plans for a greater world peace at the Washington Conference in 1922, and then another struggle between nations -the present world war. Boys from Lincoln have qone forth in both wars to fight and die for America and the many teasures it held for them. There are the incidents many graduates remember best-the time a minor fire broke out on stage and the overhead sprinkling system was opened by the heat and all that water seeped down over the stage to the gym below-the time Lincoln won its first track championship-the time a real fire burned out the Northwest rooms and classes were driven from their rooms and met for months in the auditorium, which incidentally became the longest assembly on record. , ' These and other incidents and anecdotes of high school life remind the alumni of Lincoln-that's part of the tradition existing outside the school. And the tradition within the school is even more pronounced for it is in the making. Lincoln has seen a momentous period in the history of the world and before the red bricks are torn down in some distant year she will have seen many more.

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DEDICATION In this year of high hopes and many triumphs for allied armies on all fronts, Lincoln is especially proud of its service men. Throughout all lands where Americans are fighting, they can be found, serving in numberless capacities. We are proud of the contribution they are making and -of the purpose which propels them forward. Their aim is the aim of all America. We at Lincoln are preparing ourselves that we may better carry on toward that goal. Our first concern is to bring the War to a successful close, but we realize that it is of the utmost importance that there be intelligent and constructive post War planning that will insure peace. An effective peace must be based, not on selfish ration- alizations or petty prejudices, but on clear, objective reasoning that has the Welfare of everyone in mind. This is the goal of all, at home and on foreign soil. lt is foremost in our thoughts. Because ot this, it is to the servicemen who are now making it possible for us to carry out our hope for lasting peace, that We dedicate this 1945 Totem Annual.