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

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ponewond, Nothing in the American historical experience is more inspiring than the saga of the great covered-wagon movement westward, over a cen- tury ago, when thousands of men and women risked their lives and endured formidable hardships to make a new homeland in the sun- drenched realm of the canyon and the cactus. The lives of these Ameri- can pioneers were not glamourously exciting as they have often been portrayed by modern movies and novels; instead their existence was one of stark drudgery and ceaseless toil. Nevertheless, despite the almost insurmountable obstacles in their path, the first western settlers had a saying, born out of the wisdom of their sweat and strain, which summed up what their harrowing journey had taught them. They used to say: c — The L —Cowards A —Never S —Started S —And 0 —The F —Weak —Died 9 —Along S —The 9 —Way It is memory of these gallant people that we, the seniors of Ben- jamin Franklin High School, humbly dedicate our yearbook, never for- getting that the KEY to our understanding of their bravery and heroism is crystallized in that glorious eleven word sentence out of our own past. 2

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