Bethlehem Central High School - Oriole Yearbook (Delmar, NY)

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'the Class of 1942 takes pleasure in dedi- cating the ORIOLE to Miss MARJORIE TAYLOR Class Advisor, teacher of some, and friend of all.

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we e 41941 O YOU who are graduating in this year of 1942, the world may seem to offer few opportunities for building the life which you had expected as your right. Opportunities for advancement in your chosen profession, or for participation in the vast industrial program of America will be enormously curtailed as our country limits its production to those implements by which wars are won. Yet it has always been the pride of Americans that obstacles have served as a spur to the realization of our ideals. The men who endured, with freezing hands and bleeding feet, the rigors of the winter at Valley Forge had only their 'fwill to libertyw to sustain them during a seemingly hopeless struggle. The pioneers, who toiled with back-breaking labor to thrust back the frontier, had only their vision of a great nation to fortify them against cruel deprivations. The scientists and inventors, who persisted through tragic disappointments, had only their dreams of service with which to face the indifference of their contemporaries. If adversity calls forth that strength of character and spirit of sacrifice which builds a great nation, then no greater opportunity has been given to the youth of America than is offered today. For never has our American way of life been more disastrously threatened than at present. What do we consider our 'cway of lifen? Lord Tweedsmuir has aptly defined the basic concept of our civilization as 'fthe free development of the personalityf' This ideal has flourished during many periods of history, but never has it developed more fully than under our American system. Individual will power and capacity may differ, but the majority of Americans have the ability and the opportunity to umake something of themselvesn-to develop talents, to create personality, to build character. It is this concept of life which our enemies are challenging. Yours is the oppor- tunity to oppose them-to join with the indomitable men and women who are striving to guard the ideals of our civilization, and to extend its privileges to all peoples. Could material advantages offer a greater challenge than this? MARJORIE TAYLOR