Champaign High School - Maroon Yearbook (Champaign, IL)

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THE MARUUN 1 9 4 5 VULUME xxxv SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Ch Ill

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l l HESE doors swing open . . . for hundreds of boys and girls . . . leading to new experiences in classroom and laboratory . . . new learning, more skills. Made of wood and glass . . . com- monplace in appearance . . . yet symbolic of a priceless privilege . . . doors to a formal education for one and all. Our doors . . . may they continue to swing open for every youth as the years roll by. -SENIORS OF 1945.

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B11 A591 3,751 '21 sv-c',. G1 a.z,,81e.c'.Z TE v ,.?' EDICATIUN As in the years that have gone before, l945 will bring the GREAT MOMENT to another generation of youthful citizens. Who. in cap and gown, will form the Commencement lines. To eager hands will come a diploma-a symbol of a contract fuliilled. Eyes will spar- kle with anticipation: sighs of relief will smooth into glowing smiles-primed with the real- ization that in the brief passing of the hour, each changes his status from student to alumnus. A like pattern has been followed throughout the years-never changing except for the characters, the time, the place. But always there is the same emotional overflowing, the par- donable pride, the unbounded joy, the unrestrained happiness. It is the heritage of youth-our American youth. Under parental direction and by de- cree ofa majority, every boy and girl has been provided the opportunity of an education-to develop and grow according to his talents. There have been no imposed inhibitions, no require- ments to hold to fascist dogmas. By the experience of time, that training has been tuned to implant democratic responsibilities-as a free people, not as slaves led by selfish, inflexible theories. ' It is the same everywhere throughout the land. American youth can look up into a clear sky with a free spirit. He can whistle a tune and laugh whenever he feels like it. He need not bow to a totalitarian power, or worship at a dictator's shrine. 4 The Maroon