New Kensington High School - Taleoken Yearbook (New Kensington, PA)

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DEDICATIQN

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Ken Hi, Fightv really rolls out of the crowd, and there,s that extra something behind every word and beat, then we have school spirit and our ball team can't lose. It's for the clear old school I love so wellg it's for the dear old school I yell, I yell, I yellli' At the half, after a preliminary march or two, the music takes a different trend. The whole crowd rises and pays tribute to our Alma Mater. Hail to thee, our Alma Mater! We with reverence sing to thee of our love and our devotion, of our faith and loyalty. We will cherish thy protection, we will strive to win thee fameg we will thirst for thy af- fection, Ken Hi, we will always love thy name. The Alma Mater, besides being sung at games, is closely woven into our school life. Each time we hear it played or sung, fresh memories arise in our minds. Because of this association, the Taleoken this year has been constructed with the Alma Mater as a theme. It is a kind of national anthem for Ken I-li and applies to all our activities- work and play, equally. Now as we, the class of 1945, graduate from our beloved school, let's pick up the torch for our country, let's shout our national Alma Mater, The Star Spangled Banner, to the world, let's prove that a singing nation is not a soft one, but is strong and just. There's a long struggle ahead: first, to safeguard our democratic way of life, and then, to keep it. It is up to us, for conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto, in God is our trust. And our Star Spangled Banner shall wave. S Qi ig

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TO THE SPIRIT GF AMERICAN YOUTH We are a challenged youth. db- War has found us eager to fight and die to preserve our song of D -' Freedom, peace asks that we make it the anthem of all peoples. In our wartime years at Ken I-Ii we have learned to sing that song in all its fullness, its quality, its tone. We have lived it in our open class discussions, we have been aware of it during our almost forgotten air-raid drills, we have learned to evaluate it in the brutal terms of empty classroom seats and full hearts. We of this graduating class realize that it is our responsibility to introduce to the youth of every other country this great melody which is such an integral part of our life. It is our duty to bring to the lips of all peoples a song of liberty such as we in Ken I-Ii have known all our lives. That they will welcome it, we are sure, for to their thwarted, starved minds it means more than just freedom of speech and press, from hunger and want. To them it is a symbol of free thinking, of living as they desire, of freedom from oppression. For them it can be priced only as men's lives are valued. With this in mind we strengthen our de- termination to give to them the opportunity to join America as liberty-loving nations, and to help them realize their hopes. Our preparation for the task has been well begun, and we leave Ken I-Ii to enter a school m'ore demanding than any which we could have conceived a few years ago, to be- come a part of a great chorus of all peoples, in- spired by a harmony of tolerance, equality, and democracy.