Branford High School - Milestone Yearbook (Branford, CT)

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I8 BRANFORD I-IIGHT SCHOOL Presndenlt s Message ParenTs Relahves and Fruends oT The graduahng class These commencemenT exercuses mark The end oT Twelve years oT publrc school educaT1on and mark also our TlrsT sTep unTo an envuronmenT devasTaTed economucally and physncally by war Never wrll we be able To replace The happenings :deals or Tun making of school days Tor They have Truly gnven To us The happresT years OT our lnves We The graduaTlng class have seen all Types OT economncal condnhons and sTandards and have boTh by reading and acTual experience wnTnessed Their eTTecT on men s lrves We Teel ThereTore ThaT wnTh our hugh school eclucahon and These oTher b1Ts of wasdom and experlence behund us we are seT To meeT one oT The greaT decrsnons required oT all hugh school graduaTes WhaT Shall We Do W1Th Our Fu Ture7 Thus challenge causes us To keep consTanTly In our minds ThaT The world does noT owe us a llvung buT ThaT we owe To The world and To our Tellow men a llTe a luTe deducaTed To and used of God We realize ThaT we musT keep all These Thlngs IH mnnd or else drop ouT of lrTe as do The leaves oT a Tree Tall In auTumn Our chances oT belng able To seTTle down To vocaTuons oT our own chouce are on The whole good BUT we musT Tram and develop ourselves In The lanes of our TuTure vocaTlons by gaunnng background and experience un Them For some This wall mean Trom Tour To sux years of college work To oThers Two To Three years In business or Trade schools and To many acTual Traunung In Their vocaT1on by workung as appren Tnces By seTTang deTun1Te goals To aTTaun Tor ourselves we will slmulTaneously be sTrsv ing To do our parT un developmg a world nn whuch peace and securrTy wall be placed above all oTher poluhcal and economuc :deals We pledge ourselves To accomplush These arms an a Chrvshan and SporTsman Irke manner RICHARD WHITCOMB Presrdenf ,, l KI 1 u ' . I u 1 I T I T . . . . . f v T I . .. . . .T . I . v I , . - 'u , . I r I 1 1 ' I I ' I

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BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL l9 Edluutour s Message We are The TursT class sunce The class of I94l To graduaTe wuTh our counTry aT peace We have been TorTunaTe un noT havung our class dumunushed by The demands of The Armed Forces as have been oTher classes Three oT our Tour years aT Branford Hugh School have been devoTed To wunnung The war and now we musT concen TraTe all our eTTorTs on resTorung The peace ThaT greaT Task lues beTore us buT we ac cepT :T soberly Trushng ThaT we wull aTTaun success The duplomas +ha+ we receuve sugnufy ThaT we have saTusTacToruly compleTed Tour years of hugh school educaTuon Thus was made possuble by our eagerness To learn and The TauThTul guudance oT our compeTenT TaculTy We have acquured much know ledge buT The more we have absorbed un The way oT knowledge The greaTer has been our realuzaTuon ThaT we musT noT sTop There We musT noT TermunaTe our pur suuT of knowledge wuTh The acquusuTuon of our duploma Tor knowledge plus The wull To do good are powerful unsTrumenTs un The resToraTuon and preservaTuon oT peace As we leave Thus unsTuTuTuon oT learnung we hughly resolve To clo our share un Tormung The peace and ThereaTTer un maunTaunung :T On us wull Tall Thus responsubuluTy Only by a Turm deTermunaTuon To clung To The :deals ThaT have been unculcaTed durung our Tour years of hugh school wull we aTTaun The goal whuch we seek Maruo Pepe