Washington High School - Memory Lane Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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1lg----'----A----ff:------A-A---A-A--------A ,YAY-,,,,--A--A-,A-A-A-.-Y-Y,,,-,A-A-A-A-,A-.--- , I The Washington High School Graduates' Pledge 12 'iT air I pledge myself To accepl' 'I'he dulies and responsibililies imposed upon me as an American ci+izen: To use all 'lhe lacilifies which ihis free counfry has given me for coniinuing fo grow in mind and spirih To parficipale honorably in I e civic life of our naliong Never 'lo discriminafe againsf any man because of his race. his creed, or his color and +o oppose all who do so: To worship God as my conscience diclafesg To honor and defend my counfry wi'I'h my 'fai'I'h, my worlr, and my life: And lo s+rive for fhe peace and welfare of all human lcind. This I pledge 'lo you, my parenls, m feachers, my communify, who have maJe il' possible for me 'lo enioy lhe privileges of a land in which 'ihese ideals are upheld. l pledge il' so 'lhal' my generafion and my poslerily may keep marching EVER ONWARD I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I u I I I I I I I I I I I I III III A A A A - A - ..v.i--V-v-v-v-Y-v-v-,-,-,T,7,-:,T,7,.-.-.-.-.v.v.v.V.Y.V.7.7.7.-AVAYAYAWA-.VA-. A A - A A A A A A A A , I II II The Graduales' Pledge is a unique fealure of com- mencemenl' af Washinglon High School. The pledge was wrillen by members of fha class of I943, who were graduafing in a 'lime of greal fansion. The Second World War was in lull swing. Of lhe boys. many January graduales of lhe class were already in lhe services: all lhe June members axpecied lo be called in a 'few weelcs. Of lhe girls, mosf were already working par?-lime in offices or 'laclories and expecled fo begin 'Full-'lime immedialely. Everyone, sludenl' and adull, was conslanlly faced wifh ihe responsibililies of cilizenshipg everyone was parlicularly sensilive fo lhe differences in ideals belween ourselves and our opponenls. ln 'lhis almosphere, members of lhe class looked upon lheir commencemenl as a 'Formal enfrance in-Io a serious life. A commillee drew up Ihis pledge, which expressed lheir recognilion of how, as graduales of an American high school, 'Ihey musl live. On graduafion nighl, iusf before 'lheir diplomas were handed lo fhem. lhey rose and repealed fha pledge. phrase by phrase, as il was adminislered by Mr. F. O. Schoeppel, lhe principal. I+ was 'Iheir hope fha? all succeeding classes would repeal fha cuslom, and no class has 'failed lo do so. Members of fhe commiflee who wrole ihe pledge were Hildegarde Tamlce, Elizabs+h Teichman, and Ernesl Woilasilc.

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