Technical High School - Tech Tiger Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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“Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.” — Wendell Willkie [7 2

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; - a s col z = FORE W202 D “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happi- ness. A history of human progress could be written from the theme. That same spirit un der which America was born is living today in the heart and soul of youth. We have the same aspirations for fuller living, the same possibilities for growth, the same qualities that have always enabled our greatest Ameri cans to achieve their goals. (Life is what we make it, and we at Tech through our broad educational opportunities intend to make life for ourselves and our posterity better and more worthwhile than it has ever been before. (@ Never in the past has liberty meant more to mankind than it does today. Our Bill of Rights and our Four Freedoms are just as important in our school community as they are in the life of the nation. They are the only means by which we can achieve our [9] highest personal development, and they are the only means by which mature men and women everywhere can work toward a higher degree of well-being for the whole human family. @Just as the Pursuit of Happiness is a vital factor to the success of school life, so is it vital to the peace and prosperity of all mankind; for happy men are brave men, and only the brave can be free. The following book is intended to illustrate our. prepared- ness to carry on these high ideals. The destiny of our nation and of the world has been placed in the hands of our generation. We must accept this responsibility of leadership in the effort to achieve permanent peace for all mankind by spreading a deeper faith in freedom and in human brotherhood under the continued guidance of God. — Henry Gordon Ring