Bayless High School - Oracle Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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from the eternal penetrating question, Why must these things be?, one fact stands out. It is writ large in bold type. That fact is the tremendous and overwhelming responsibility that falls upon us, the living, to insure that those who hear the muffled drum will not have died in vain. High sounding phrases-but phrases which must have meaning if we are to be able to live with ourselves. The task lies before us. The immediate job is to win the warg the second, to win and insure the peace. If we who remain alive-soldiers in far off fields and civilians at home-fail to accomplish both objectives, we make a mockery of gold stars on whichever flag they may be found. We need faith. We need hope, charity, trust, and intelligence. We need a belligerent attitude to all forms of ev-il-be that found in the business world, our work, our school, our recreation, our city, our country. We need love, justice, honor, loyalty, and trust. Until we have and hold a measure of these virtues, We have no right to even exist with a clear conscience with gold stars as these watching our every move. Those Who Marched Alone HUEBNER, CHESTER-Q ............... Cla!! Of 1955 STOKEY, RUSSELL SULLENTRUP, RAYMOND JOSEPH ..... Clan of 1959 TONKOVICH, LOUIS FRANK---Member of Clan 1938 WILHELM, FRANK ......... Prerident of Clan of 1958

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In 5NIemoriam They Died Before They Had zz Chance to Live for What They Were Fighting F0r A regiment of soldiers was marching to the rhythmic staccato throb of a drum. All were in step, that is, all but one. He marched alone. He marched irrespective of all the others. He walked alone. Nor did it seem to upset the delicate balance of the precision necessary in any parade. His immediate officer was about to reprimand him when an intelligent and imaginative superior officer checked him. Let him alone, he said, he hears another drum. Another clrtun-to which all men of good faith, to which all men who have displayed that great love of which it has been said, Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Mortal man neither hears nor marches to that drum. Its pitch only reaches the few-the select few. Within the past year five blue stars in the Bayless Service Flag gradualy changed hues and shades and gold stars replaced the poignant blue. This is the time-the time that all men of good Will, no matter where they are found, prayed would never come-the time when death stills one drum and lets in the sound of the other. At times like these, men ponder over the problem of what man has made of man. Men seem to become lost in the inexplicable march of events. But from this chaos,

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The Aflvzzifzixtratiovz, the Faculty ami the Student Body Extend Congratula- ziovzf to the Seniovzr of 1945. 'lftl' 1?