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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Cm We, the Senior Class of 1959, are proud to offer a special salute to the head of our army —to you, Mr. Sabin, a trailblazer and a pathfinder, whose sterling pioneer qualities of integrity, industry and everlasting endur- ance will long remain our inspiration, after our youthful trumpets have been muted and after the dust has settled and the sun has passed over the familiar Franklin foliage of our lives. 4 MR. WILLARD A. SABIN Principal