Mount Tahoma High School - Totem Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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C0 ,711 lfl Z Kennedy V4 Prohle in Hauraga we dedicate the 1964 Zfnfem Any citizen of our beloved country who looks back over its history cannot fail to see that we have been blessed with Gods favor beyond most other peoples. At each greatscrisis in our history we have found a leader able to grasp the helm of state and guide the country through the troubles which beset it. ln our earliest days, when our strength and wealth were so limited and our problems so great, Washington and lefferson appeared to lead our people. Two generations later, when our country was torn in two by a frat- ricidal war, Abraham Lincoln appeared from the mass of the people as a leader able to reunite the nation. ln more recent times, in the critical days of the depression and the great war forced upon us by fascist aggression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, later Harry S. Truman appeared on the scene to reorganize the country and lead its revived citizens to victory. Finally, only recently, when the cold war was building up the supreme crisis of a threatened nuclear war capable of destroying everything - and everybody - that our predecessors had so carefully built, and which a liberty-loving world wanted, once again a strong and courageous man appeared ready to lead us. No country need despair so long as God, in His infinite goodness, continues to provide the nation with leaders able to guide it through the successive crises which seem to be the inevitable fate of any great nation. Surely no country ever faced more gigantic problems than ours in the last few years, and surely no country could have obtained a more able leader in a time of such crisis. President Iohn Fitzgerald Kennedy possessed all the qualities of greatness. He had deep faith, complete confidence, human sympathy, and broad vision which recognized the true values of freedom, equality, and the brotherhood which have always been the marks of the American political dreams. He had the bravery and a sense of personal duty which made him willing to face up to the great task of being President in these trying times. He had the warmth and the sense of humanity which made the burden of the task bearable for himself and for his associates, and which made all kinds of diverse peoples and races eager to be associated with him in his task. He had the tenacity and determination to carry each stage of his great work through'to its successful conclusion. Now that our great leader has been taken from us in a cruel death, we are bound to feel shattered and helpless in the face of our loss. This is but natural, but as the first bitter pangs of our incredulous grief be- gin to pass we must thank God that we were privileged, however briefly, to have had this great man for our President. For he has now taken his place among the great figures of world history. While this is an occasion of deep sorrow, it should be also one of dedication. We must have the deter- mination to unite and carry on the spirit of Iohn Fitzgerald Kennedy for a strengthened America and a future world of peace. SPEAKER MCCORMACK --.W U. ...,,., .... . .....1.Lu............,. . . ..................i......u.....f..t.....-.i..........4..a,...,. l l i 1 3 l l 4 3 V1 1 4 1 -l 5 E l 1 i .Quad

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