Benjamin Franklin High School - Key Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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fyoSl UJOSU . . . We have been careful that they that read may have delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit, 2 Maccabees 11, 25 In this quotation From Maccabees our hopes For the Key of 1942 are well expressed. We trust that you who read will find profit and delight in the reading and much that is worth-while to keep in memory. We feel that a year book should be a record in picture and writing of the school year. Our theme, if it can be called a theme, is Panorama, and the book is intended to be just that—a panorama of life at Benjamin Franklin High School in this our senior year. This is a memorable year in world history, and it is inevitable that world events should have impinged upon our school life. We could not and would not be oblivious to the War and all it means. Some mem- bers of this class are already in the armed forces of our country. Many more are giving generously of their time and effort to defense classes, Red Cross work, and every other sort of patriotic endeavor. It is right that these interests and activities should color our book as they have colored our lives. Their presence here makes this Key a bit of history that is more than personal. II this year book keeps alive for us the happy memories of our school life and the pleasant days we spent here together, learning, growing, and becoming better Americans, we shall be amply rewarded for the time and effort we have expended. Now, may we present to you, for whom it has been written, a graphic and literary record of life at Benjamin Franklin High School—the Key of 1942. Benjamin fy ianhlin JlitfU School, Rocltedl i, A . fy. 5

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fcOy L BUTTERFIELD Principal Mr, Butterfield’s Message The Class of 1942 completes its work at Franklin High School in days when history is truly being made. This is the first war class in a period of ti- tanic struggle. Seeking to avoid war, we find we are forced to resort to it not alone to maintain our national dignity, honor, and prestige and to protect our possessions, but even to defend our liberties and our very lives. These conditions affect us all and have in fact entirely changed our direction. Hundreds of members of former Franklin classes are engaged in war, some have already given their lives to it, to be replaced in the ranks by others of their erstwhile comrades at school. Work is plentiful. Wages are good. Opportunities to serve are legion. Appeals to support national needs are frequent. We are rapidly adjusting to an existence dictated by needs of offense and defense. Our thoughts are centered on how to win and that as soon as possible. These conditions may persist for a considerable time. We may actually forget what life was like before war came, but let us attempt to keep steadily in mind these thoughts: that Franklin stands and will stand for Education; that although knowledge, training, and experience will help us win our wars, that the way of war is destruction and waste; and that the finest results stemming from our high school days must be sought in the days of peace which will follow. Message from Mr. Eddy To the Class of 1942: Greetings! Like the fledgling leaving the mother nest, you are poised upon the rim of your high school abode, eager to undertake your initial flight. You will sail into an untried atmosphere to fulfill your destiny. It is a turbulent element into which you are adventuring, but it is a world impregnated with challenge. You are bound for a mighty struggle. Whether the conflict will end in a better and happier existence will depend upon the choices you make. Opportunities, good and bad, worthy and unworthy, will be presented to you as they have not been presented to another generation. Your equipment must be intelligence, wisdom, and courage; your compass, a worthy purpose and an abiding faith; your watch word, service to your fellow men; your goal, a pleasant land. My sincerest wishes attend you. Faithfully yours, George E, Eddy 6