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

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GEORGE E. EDDY Associate Principal Message from Mr. Sabin Another school year comes to a close—a year which will undoubtedly live long in your memory. This year has been noteworthy because events throughout the world have transpired with such suddenness and force as to challenge the best which we possess to keep steadfast our balance and purpose. It is significant that such a period in world history should coincide with a great event in your life—your graduation. More forcibly than heretofore you will meet the realities of life, some bitter perhaps, and some most certainly pleasant. Within you, to a large degree, rests the power, initiative, and drive to emphasize the latter. My most sincere wish for you now is that you guide your energies toward the noblest of values, as you see them. Then you have the assurance that your realization of success will be truly satisfying and enduring. Seniors, congratulations and good fortune! WILLARD SABIN Vice-Principal 7

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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

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Front Row: Owen, MeTarnaghan, Levin, Cleland, Lipson, Sabin, Yaeger, Kipp, Dunham, Larmer, Henry, Lamoree. Second Row: Ashley, West, Eddy, Thomas, DeFrancesco, Denio, Siclcels, Daly, Rizzo, Davis. Third Row: Greenwood, Loetzer, Ring- wood, Colburn, McCarthy, Steinhausen, Peterson, Sheehan. Fourth Row: Brockway, Crowley, Hoefer, Jennings, Morsheimer, Ebray, Kaiser, Coughlin, Ball. Fifth Row: Middaugh, Emery, Snow, Sullivan, Diemer, Rahtjen, Edwards, Donnellan, Donoghue, Riley, Acheson. Back Row: Cone, Halbleib, Miller, Fromme, Miller, Murphy, Howland, Martens, Wilson, Ford, Ryan, Faculty To mold the character, ideals, and hopes of youth of that impressionable high school age is the great task of our faculty. The success or failure, the ha ppiness or dis- content of hundreds of lives is annually placed in their capable hands. For their unfailing patience and understand- ing we are deeply grateful. 8