Sapulpa High School - Sapulphan Yearbook (Sapulpa, OK)

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REPRESENTATIVE AMERICA IS DETAILED IN THE HOMES AND COUNTRYSIDES FROM THE CANADIAN BORDER TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. HERE ARE THE FARMS, ROLLING HILLS, FERTILE FLAT LANDS, FED BY THE WATERS OF GREAT STREAMS AND DAMS, AND HERE ARE TO BE FOUND THE CHILDREN OF THE PIONEERS, AND THE FATHERS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO DEVELOP THE CITIES, WITH THEIR HUGE MANUFACTURING PLANTS AND MARTS OF TRADE. FROM THE FARM LANDS HAVE COME THE LEADERS OF AMERICA. RUGGED INDIVIDUALS WHO ENDURED HARDSHIP IN CLEARING GREAT ACRES OF SPACE AND PASSING ON A HERITAGE OF COURAGE THAT HAS MADE AMERICA THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD. THESE TOILERS OF THE NORTHLANDS AND MID-AMERICA ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO BRING PROSPERITY TO THE CITIES OF THE SOUTHLANDS, AND ESPECIALLY OF THOSE WHO HAVE BUILT THE SUNNY CITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA. EVERY ONE OF THEM, HOWEVER, ARE ASSETS OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD. IN NEWSPAPER OFFICES, SPREAD UPON THE PAGES OF GREAT PUBLICATIONS, ACTORS UPON THE STAGE AND UPON THE SILVER SCREENS, HERE ARE TO BE FOUND THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO WERE BRED AND REARED UPON SMALL FARMS, IN VILLAGES, AND SMALL COMMUNITIES. THERE THEY HAD LEARNED THE HARD WAY, AND EVEN ASPIRED TO GO HIGHER. UPON GOD'S ACRES YOU LOOK UPON THE SOUL OF AMERICA! THERE YOU VIEW NATURAL BEAUTY IN A THOUSAND FORMS. THERE YOU LISTEN 4 8

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TO THE WHISPERINGS OF A MULTITUDE OF CREATIONS THAT SPEAK A VARIOUS LANGUAGE. TREES, STREAMS, MEADOW SINGERS, CREATURES OF THE WILD, THE RHYTHMIC MOVEMENTS OF GREAT FIELDS OF GRAIN, THE PUNGENT ODOR OF THE GOOD EARTH—ALL THESE AND MORE—THESE ARE AMERICA, WHEkE MEN AND WOMEN CAN THINK, WORSHIP AND ASPIRE IN A FREE LAND THAT HAS BEEN PURCHASED AND PAID FOR AGAIN AND AGAIN BY THE BRAVERY AND BLOOD OF ITS OWN. THIS IS AMERICA, WHERE THE FARM BOY BECOMES PRESIDENT AND WHERE ARE BRED THE GREAT SCIENTIST, THE WORLD-FAMED AUTHOR, THE STATESMAN, THE BELOVED POET, AND AN ENDLESS NUMBER OF BENEFACTORS TO MANKIND. HERE, WHERE THE AIR IS CLEAR AND WHERE FREE EXPRESSION IS INVITED, AND WHERE ALL NATIONAL ORIGINS ARE MELTED INTO THE ONE —AMERICAN. THIS IS WHAT GENERAL PATTON NEVER FAILED TO POINT OUT TO THE HUMBLEST SOLDIER UNDER HIS COMMAND—THE SACREDNESS AND GLORY OF BEING JUST AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF US ALL NEVER TO LET AMERICA DOWN, NEVER TO SELL IT SHORT, NEVER TO DESERT ITS IDEALS, NEVER TO LET IT BE ASHAMED OF US. WE ARE ITS SPIRITUAL CRIERS IN A WILDERNESS OF CONFUSION, DEFEATISTS, AND FAULT-FINDERS. WE ARE AMERICA. WE ARE ITS INHERITORS. LET US SO ENRICH IT THAT IT SHALL BECOME AN INHERITANCE FOR THE ENTIRE EARTH! LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD! (GEORGE MATHEW ADAMS.) TO THIS REPRESENTATIVE AMERICA WE ARE HAPPY TO DEDICATE THE 1946 SAPULPAN. MAY OUR STUDENTS BE DILIGENT AND LOYAL IN CARRYING OUT THESE IDEAS AND IDEALS. 9