Bulkeley High School - Class Yearbook (Hartford, CT)

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'H 4 QP, ef- BJ-LST s til . a 1941 N, Our gyrilzcipa is .Message No motto could be more appropriate for young high school graduates at this time than the one chosen by the Class of 1941. 6'Forward Forever, Backward Never signifies a spirit greatly needed by our nation in these critical days. The entire concept and foundation of Americanism is being challenged, and American youth is called upon to defend it-not only with his life, but with the very fiber of' his soul. lt has taken the sweat and blood, the tears and suffering, and agonizing death of untold generations extending over thousands of years to bring to the surface the concepts of right and justice, of liberty and equality which constitute the very fabric of democracy and civilization. Our forefathers who suffered at Valley Forge, they who gave up their lives at Gettysburg, and those who, in more recent years, crossed the ocean to face death on the already bloody battlefields of Europe, were all motivated by one ideal- to preserve the sanctity of human freedom and individual liberty. This cannot be accomplished unless it is established as a universal principle that, whereas the majority possesses power, the minority is entitled to certain inalienable rightsg and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We Americans have been nourished on these ideals. 'They are the very fiber of our life, and now we see them threatened both from without and from within. We are witnessing the sad spectacle of a people whipped into a series of frenzies-fear, hatred, and the lust of conquest-all under the illusion that they are the select of the earth. There seems to be no way of stopping them by appeal to reason, in spite of the fact that they find themselves isolated in a world of fear and hate. It is like a person who seeks to establish a home in a fine neighborhood and does it at the expense of his neighbors to such an extent that he wakes up to find his home situated in a wilderness. We shall not allow our spiritual mansions, nor our cities and homesteads, to be destroyed in that attempt. Like true and noble Americans, strengthened by our traditions, we will strive forever to preserve our ideals, and retreat from them never. GUSTAVE A. FEINGOLD 9

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DR. GUSTAVE A. FEINGOLD, PHD Our Principal 8

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CLASS BOOK EDITORIAL BOARD George H. Blessis, Editor-in-Chief Arthur D. Keefe, Assistant Editor Doris E. Bronson Elaine E. Vander Linden Anita L. Castonguay Robert L. Allen Lorain A. Yates William H. Carey 10